I painted my kitchen about 2 weeks ago and the paint is still a little tacky. Why? We primed with Kiltz orig.

Answer 1

Oil or water based Kiltz? When we used oil based it stayed tacky for awhile due to humidity. If you painted over the primer with a latex paint I'd suggest that the tackiness was due to humidity and that you may have applied too much. Several modest coats of paint works best and you've got to allow each coat to dry before applying the next.

Set up fans and turn on the a/c. You might want to even set up a dehumidifier to help with the drying process.

Answer 2

Basically all these answers are right to a certain degree but
will not help you, here are the reasons your paint is stilll tacky.
If you painted with a latex or water based paint and it is still tacky after 2 weeks,
1) The surface was contaminated prior tp painting by any number of things eg grease,silicone residue from cleaning products or even exudation fro the previous paint.
2), high humidity, or low ambient air temp at time of application, either of these conditions will prevent the paint film coalescing properly,(basically it wont cure) which results in a sticky , or tacky feeling to the paint film you may also notice streaks or spots that look like water damage, this is called surfactant leaching .
If this is the case your basically resigned to removing the paint and starting again, no amount of trying to dry the paint film out now will work, if your very lucky you may just have a bit of the surfactant leaching, to remedy this just wash the walls down a couple of time with clean warm water , you may still have some surface marring but a simple re-coat should fix that.

If you used oil based or enamel paint and it is still tacky after two weeks your most likely cause is surface contamination, oil based paint cure differently to water based and though they can be affected by very low temps or very high humidity they will still cure unless they have become contaminated.
Again no easy answer other than to remove the offending coatings and start again.

Answer 3

Maybe you did not let the first coat dry throughly.
IIt could also be high humidity in your house.
Turn some fans on to circulate the air and cause a breeze Be sure your AC is on and turn the temp down to maybe 68 to be sure and get all the humidity out of the house and paint.

Answer 4

Even if the air in the kitchen is humid, your paint should have dried by now. Did you happen to use an old can of oil-base paint?

Answer 5

Heat the room up and circulate the air with a fan and open some windows so there is a draft to get bad air out..

Answer 6

you probably didn't give it time to dry between layers.

you might have put the layers on too thick

depending what type of paint (flat or enamal)

you need more drying time for the kinds that are washable paints.

Safely I can say for washable paints you need 36 hours of drying time between layers.

Answer 7

I would be guessing that the reason is high humidity and no air flow. Both will slow the drying process.

Answer 8

if the walls were greasy the paint will take ages to dry if at all you should wash them with sugar soap first you may nead to wash paint off and start again

Answer 9

I don't know where you live but it's probably because of the high humidity. I know it's been terrible where I live! Try keeping the AC on high for a day.

Answer 10

is it humid? check with home depot or lowes (or where you purchased your paint) it shouldnt be tacky - also did you paint another coat before the first was dry?