Recent content by ramsus

Hi, I have changed lights in the past and had no problem as there has always been a connector unit within the base of the light fitting, so it's been clear where to unattach the wires. However in my living room I just took the fittings down and I can't see where to unattached the wires...

Got some oil based paint as suggested, and it seems to take fine now. Thanks a lot for the help all. And at least we have some water based top coat already to use on the next project.

I think the primer and undercoat maybe both oil based. I'm not sure how to tell below is what it says on the tins: Also we needed to use white spirit not water to clean the brushes - does that mean its oil based? I think the Crown paint for the top coat is water based, as water...

Thanks your the reply Joe. Yes, first we used homebase pure white primer, then we used homebase pure white undercoat (both the ones for wood & metal) .Does this mean we need to use a homebase top coat instead if crown?

Hi all, We have been painting some new MDF wardrobes, and have run into some problems any advice would be massively appreciated. We are very new to this so don't really know what we are doing. We primed the mdf then did an undercoat layer. Now we have started with the top coat but it doesn't...