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Painting bare, unplastered wall

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  • 18-04-2017 12:41pm
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    smythy25
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭


    I'm just about to start painting the walls that surround my garden - which are bare, unplastered, never painted before walls.

    I'm thinking of the following but would love some advice

    1 - Clean down wall with wire brush, removing any loose stones etc
    2 - First coat of thinned (10-15%) masonry paint using masonry roller
    3 - Second coat of non thinned paint.

    Am I missing anything in the above? I have a fear this is going to be a pain in the a$$ - any experienced painters out there will to pass on some advice!?
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    dodzy
    Registered Users Posts: 9,933 ✭✭✭dodzy


    smythy25 wrote: »
    I'm just about to start painting the walls that surround my garden - which are bare, unplastered, never painted before walls.

    I'm thinking of the following but would love some advice

    1 - Clean down wall with wire brush, removing any loose stones etc
    2 - First coat of thinned (10-15%) masonry paint using masonry roller
    3 - Second coat of non thinned paint.

    Am I missing anything in the above? I have a fear this is going to be a pain in the a$$ - any experienced painters out there will to pass on some advice!?

    Replace step 2 with one coat of stabilising primer and you're good to go.


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    Calahonda52
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    smythy25 wrote: »

    Am I missing anything in the above? I have a fear this is going to be a pain in the a$$ - any experienced painters out there will to pass on some advice!?

    Well I wouldn't do it in the first place.

    It will be a pain to maintain, will get stained etc ...

    In any event to get any sort of decent finish on bare concrete block will require, IMHO, a sprayer of some sort to get into all the nooks and crannies

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    dodzy
    Registered Users Posts: 9,933 ✭✭✭dodzy


    Calahonda52 wrote: »
    Well I wouldn't do it in the first place.

    It will be a pain to maintain, will get stained etc ...

    In any event to get any sort of decent finish on bare concrete block will require, IMHO, a sprayer of some sort to get into all the nooks and crannies

    It's just raw blockwork. Masonry roller and decent brush will get a good result. If treated with stabilizing primer, it'll be years before you will need to revisit. Raw blockwork just looks sh1te IMO. A painted surface is much nicer, not to mention brighter.


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