Why do you need several coats of paint?

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Why is it always recommended that you painting something, waiting for it to dry, paint again, repeat repeat, instead of just doing it once and add enough paint on the first go?

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You want the paint to be thin enough that it will get into every nook and soak into everything. However when you do that you get a very thin layer of paint which will be easily worn down. So you need to paint it with several layers expecting it to wear though some of them. You do not want to paint the next layer before the previous one have dried because you will just peal off the paint from the first layer and end up with a much thinner coat of paint. On the other hand you might not want to wait too long as the paint sticks best when it is almost dry so the layers stick to each other.

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