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:D OH YES SUCCESS !!!!! :D Here's what I did, slightly different to what I planned. In sympathy of the problem, my lovely girlfriend had gone out and brought a tin of cheap magnolia 'Homebase vinyl silk'. Time was running incredibly short, I hadn't packed and I decided that it was better...

Thanks for the tips! Last night I went home and put a layer of 'polycell basecoat 5in1' to bridge those gaps, no such luck, woke up this morning and found the crazing had come back again... jeez, wish I had just washed the matt off as Third_eye suggests as couple of days ago, now I'm not so...

Thanks for the advise I am guessing though that I will have to try and wash all the matt off of the wall before it will make any difference using sugar soap on the silk paint and then a rub down of the silk is still required? ...Its that part of the job that I'm not sure if I will be able to...

... urrm im embaressed to say I didn't :oops: on reflection and after talking to some other people it seems like I should have used sugar soap, do you think this is the reason its gone so badly?

Hi, I could really use some urgent advise, I have run into a disastrous situation with putting matt paint over silk paint in my kitchen, the finish has crazed all over the place and looks terrible. What makes this so urgent is this is for a rented house that I am moving out of at the...