Can anyone reccommend a good all around primer and paint someting easy to use?

Smitty, you really need a good paint store first, the brand of paint isn't going to do you squat if you have no support at the store.

EVERY single major manufacture has quality products of every shape and size.

What brands do you have available to you?
Have you been in the stores, how did they treat you?

I have a great supply store very close by with everything you could imagine and very helpful people. I just wanted to ask you all what was being used with best results although very helpful, the store employees sometimes lack the experience that only pros like you and the others on here have.

Am with Martin if you have NO store support no matter how good the paint is the quality will suffer :( Thats a fact.

Awhile back we switched from S-W paint to PPG one of the big reasons was lack of support through the store. If new products or bullentions came out on products we never got them, the store didnt think it was important so they threw them out, too much of a hassle.

Been with PPG for about a year now and the difference is ten times better!! Now not saying S-W is a bad product just the store where we bought from really didnt care.

Now what paint brands are avaible to you? Each company has good products and bad products, or should say some work better then others...Eric