painting newly built house

GALWAYGIRL27

Hi all,
I am in the process of building my house. I want to stock up on paint that I can get in the B&Q sale. What paint do I need to buy for painting the interior. Do I need a base coat? Can we paint the walls with a couple of coats of white paint as a base then decide what colour we want in each room. We are hoping to stock up on white paint.
Thanks in advance, all advice appreciated.

woodoo

GALWAYGIRL27 wrote: »

Hi all,
I am in the process of building my house. I want to stock up on paint that I can get in the B&Q sale. What paint do I need to buy for painting the interior. Do I need a base coat? Can we paint the walls with a couple of coats of white paint as a base then decide what colour we want in each room. We are hoping to stock up on white paint.
Thanks in advance, all advice appreciated.

I just put on a basic cheap white emulsion paint as a base coat, the plastered walls will suck it up. You should probably water it down a bit too. Then you can put your chosen colours over that. I'm certainly no expert though. Some of the long term staff in B & Q should know what way to go about it if you ask them.

byrybak

B&Q has 3 for 2 sale from yesterday on all dulux paints. Get few 10litres buckets of dulux total cover ( matt white) for ur first coat and finish on ceilings. They also sell 10litres buckets of some dulux colours, u will need about 5litres of colour to complete one standard size room. Depending on ur preference on woodwork finish u could also get couple of 5litres dulux acrylic undercoats( water based) and finish coat paints ( satin or gloss).

GALWAYGIRL27

byrybak wrote: »

B&Q has 3 for 2 sale from yesterday on all dulux paints. Get few 10litres buckets of dulux total cover ( matt white) for ur first coat and finish on ceilings. They also sell 10litres buckets of some dulux colours, u will need about 5litres of colour to complete one standard size room. Depending on ur preference on woodwork finish u could also get couple of 5litres dulux acrylic undercoats( water based) and finish coat paints ( satin or gloss).

Thanks for that. Is the Dulux total cover an emulsion paint suitable as a base coat?

byrybak

Yes total cover is an matt emulsion which is suitable as a base coat, make sure u dilute paint with water for base coat. 10liters of paint / 1 liter of water

GALWAYGIRL27

byrybak wrote: »

Yes total cover is an matt emulsion which is suitable as a base coat, make sure u dilute paint with water for base coat. 10liters of paint / 1 liter of water

Great stuff, we'll get some of that then. Thanks again.

3ndahalfof6

Make sure you dust the walls down well, PVA is a good sealent , B&Q paint is pisss so there would be no reason to water it down unless you are going to pay for the top stuff,

the reason you base coat is to not waste the expensive paint (colors) , so a good coat of PVA will seal your plaster and when you use whatever color you decide it will shine out rather than soaking in,

one of the big mistakes people make is not dusting down the walls well, tis the dust that will allow the paint to blister later on, hoover the country out of it and sand the bumps before you coat anything.

The Bishop Basher

You'll be amazed at how much of the first coat disappears into the plaster. Buy the cheapest paint you can find and as others have said, dilute it. Then work from there as normal.

michael999999

Can people stop recommending that people use PVA on interior plastered walls.

PVA is a sealent.

Dulux sandtex and crown didn't spend millions designing paint to soak into plaster, to have somebody come along and recommend putting pva in between.

You will wreck your walls if you put PVA on them.

woodoo

Swanner wrote: »

You'll be amazed at how much of the first coat disappears into the plaster.

True and OP if you are doing it yourself, painting the first coat onto the ceiling is torture.