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I'm just wwonderring how soon we can get to paintingg these walls. Oh & if you're seeing a load of double letters my keyboard is acting up.
We had our living room re-plastered a couple of weeks ago & the majority seems to have dried out. It's plasterboarded in parts, it's bonded in parts & it's had multifinish on it in parts, although by the looks (colour) of it i'd guess the entire top coat is multifinish - sound right?
The majority has faded to a pasty pinky sort of colour. The bits that are still dark are where they used Thistle Bonding (excuse the images - we've no lighting to had to use camera flash)...
* Do we have to wait until that dries out fully & comes the colour of the rest of the wall? If so that's no problem. I'm just wondering when would be good to start painting?
On the topic of which - how do you hit it to begin with?
* What type of paint are we looking at? Emulsion, Eggshell, Silk, Vinyl etc etc.
* I believe it needs to be watered down (to what ratio?) for the first (1? 2? 3? coats).
* I take it this watered paint acts as the primer & you don't need a separate primer?
* Since you're just watering down the first X-amount of coats, so long as it's the right type (eggshell, emulsion etc (whatever the right type is)) does it really matter on the quality? Such as - some of Wilkinsons cheap & not-so-cheerful paint would do fine to layer up before it comes time for the 'proper' top coat?
I think that's it for the questioning.
Oh the ceiling needs to get done too, but that hasn't dried out properly yet as it's only just been done. Do you use the same type of paint for the ceiling?
We had our living room re-plastered a couple of weeks ago & the majority seems to have dried out. It's plasterboarded in parts, it's bonded in parts & it's had multifinish on it in parts, although by the looks (colour) of it i'd guess the entire top coat is multifinish - sound right?
The majority has faded to a pasty pinky sort of colour. The bits that are still dark are where they used Thistle Bonding (excuse the images - we've no lighting to had to use camera flash)...
* Do we have to wait until that dries out fully & comes the colour of the rest of the wall? If so that's no problem. I'm just wondering when would be good to start painting?
On the topic of which - how do you hit it to begin with?
* What type of paint are we looking at? Emulsion, Eggshell, Silk, Vinyl etc etc.
* I believe it needs to be watered down (to what ratio?) for the first (1? 2? 3? coats).
* I take it this watered paint acts as the primer & you don't need a separate primer?
* Since you're just watering down the first X-amount of coats, so long as it's the right type (eggshell, emulsion etc (whatever the right type is)) does it really matter on the quality? Such as - some of Wilkinsons cheap & not-so-cheerful paint would do fine to layer up before it comes time for the 'proper' top coat?
I think that's it for the questioning.
Oh the ceiling needs to get done too, but that hasn't dried out properly yet as it's only just been done. Do you use the same type of paint for the ceiling?