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Painting advice needed

  • 08-08-2016 8:47am
    #1
    will56
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    We are renovating our kitchen at the moment and had something "interesting" happen with the paint at the weekend.
    I was scrapping some the loose paint to smooth it off and all the paint on one wall came off - in sheets :rolleyes:.
    It looks like the previous owners just painted their final colour straight onto the plaster. When I scrapped the paint off, the wall is just plaster.

    Now since the walls were plastered some 12 years ago whats the best way to prepare them for painting again ?

    I have been advised to water down polybond and paint the walls to seal them and I have also been told to water down white emulsion.

    Is it a case of either way is right or is one going to leave me with a better finish that the other ?


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  • #2
    Calahonda52
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    whats the new paint, oil based or water based?
    is wall solid or skimmed plaster board?
    Is is 100% dust free when you rub it with your fingers?

    The two options u mention will be hotly debated here:D Seconds out!

    “I can’t pay my staff or mortgage with instagram likes”.



  • #3
    will56
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭will56


    Calahonda52 wrote: »
    whats the new paint, oil based or water based?
    is wall solid or skimmed plaster board?
    Is is 100% dust free when you rub it with your fingers?

    The two options u mention will be hotly debated here:D Seconds out!

    New Paint - water based
    Wall - Skimmed solid wall
    I have filled patches to sand smooth but otherwise I think its dust free.


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