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General Finishes High Performance Water Based Topcoat, 1 Quart, Gloss

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Pros & Cons

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Pros

This beats the pants off of anything you can get at a big box or hardware or paint store. For a water-cleanup topcoat, this stuff levels like a champ.

Cons

Even with spraying, the sheen is very streaky. You get about 1 side of a 4x8 piece of plywood for every quart. Sanding and repainting the rest over the topcoat is going to be a lot of work.

Even with water, this stuff is impossible to lay with a foam brush or regular brush. It has so much of the mattifying ingredient that it clumps and instantly starts drying. It instantly starts to clump and dry at the high edge of your brush.

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Highlights

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Quality

Highly durable prevents scratches on latex paint.

Their products apply very smoothly, level nicely, and flash within a reasonable window.

The additive that makes any finish not shiny settles over time, therefore with ever use it had to mixed thoroughly.

Closest to a factory finish i e ever gotten…3 coats…sanded to 220 before…320 pad in between coats…like glass

Price

We have been paying $50 for a quart of this product, excellent price for quantity of product!

This was originally a very old desk i got for $30 and it looked awful.

A little pricey per ounce but i think it’s worth it.

It may be pricey, but it is very worth it.

Shipping

As of 7/11/23, don't worry about it arriving safely.

Packaging/appearance

This is a great product, but the packaging is not good.

Competitiveness

It also evens out better than minwax when i use a paint brush to put on the product!

I’ve worked with many finishes from poly’s to other brand names top coats and this is the absolute best.

I compared it to minwax top coat in satin finish as well and i didn’t like the later as much as it took longer to dry, had a sm... Read More

Don’t settle for inferior product - there is no comparison to this stuff!

Overview

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easy, great, painted, general and color.

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This product had a total of 6,974 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 22 2024.