Couple of questions regarding caulking and lining

[mdavidson]

Hi all,

I've been doing up the master bedroom, and have run into a couple of niggles, would appreciate any help from the pros.

I took my old wallpaper off and lined it. Looked good, so I proceeded with undercoat, then top coat. I have a few tiny gaps around the window frame where I lined, ingos I think you call them. I was wondering if I could just put a small bead of decorators caulk in between the lining paper and the window frame? Also where the corners meet between walls I have a few bits where the wall sinks in a bit, nothing major just doesn't look to pretty. Could I also caulk this, then use painters tape, then paint to get a real straight line on my feature wall?

The bedroom roof was a mess so i had it taken down and freshly plaster boarded. I got a plasterer in and he skimmed the roof. The majority of the roof is great, but where the roof meets the walls, the plastering is not to great. It's full of small dimples and such, even after sanding and this is making it a nightmare to cut in from the walls to the roof (walls are different colour from roof), doesn't look nice, no clean edge.

I was thinking of using painters frogger tape? the only problem with this though is that the roof has that many sags and undulating bits that masking the roof then painting to it, would probably be a nightmare getting the tape to produce a straight line, but this is the only solution i can think of so far?

Any replies would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Pigeon85]

Hi you can use the caulk in corners and along door frames and skirting etc but anything that's not an edge then use filler. As for your roof then I'm afraid you should have got a roofer to tile it really lol (I take it you mean ceiling) wouldn't bother about trying to use tape, if it doesn't look right then just touch up after. If the ceiling is pretty bad then stick to neutral colours as you won't notice as much.

 

[Pigeon85]

Forgot to add don't forget to put a mist coat on the bare plaster first before painting, about 70% Matt emulsion 30% water

 

[mdavidson]

Thanks for the reply!

Glad to hear that I can use the caulk, wasn't sure as it had had it's first top coat.

The colors are dark unfortunately, I think that's why the cutting in I've done is so noticeable against the white ceiling I nipped out earlier and got frogger tape, put that to the ceiling and painted against it, bled through, I was surprised as that's supposed to protect against that, it also took some of the ceiling paint off too.

That's a pity as this looks like my best option at getting a nice line between the ceiling and walls. Forgot to mention that I undercoated the ceiling first with two coats of emulsion at 50/50, final coat went on a treat.