Hi all,
Really hope you can help on this!
I moved to a new flat in London 2 months ago, the walls in the hallways were painted in light yellow and there was so sign of condensation/wet patches on wall at all.
We then started to paint the walls in the hallways with a Dulux grey paint matt - Chic Shadow. and started noticing paint not drying in some patches. This went on for quite a few weeks.
We then went into a specialist paint shop and they recommended we used a paint stain blocker such as B.I.N Zinnser across the area as this should have hopefully sealed it and we could have painted over with paint matt again.
This sorted the problem initially but the darker slightly wet patches have now been coming back in the same area.
The previous owners did a damp treatment course in the flat and this wall was taken care of - this was roughly 2014 and it is currently under warranty.
We had the damp specialist coming round today to have a look and they advised that I painted the walls with the wrong type of paint, I should have never used the Dulux vinyl emulsion and definitely NOT the B.I.N Zinnser. They think it is not rising damp as in fact it doesn't rise too high, it could be a mix of condensation however they suggested that using a "breathable" paint would work.
Their advice was to strip off all the paint, and use a suitable "Non-vinyl moisture permeable emulsion paint"
Can someone please help on this? I have done some research and Dulux Trade Supermatt white
keeps coming up as a good one.
My question is - if I decide to start painting the area with this, do I need to do the whole wall in the hallway or can I just focus on the areas I want to cover? Would I then be able to use the original Dulux matt emulsion Chic Shadow on it? Or would this ruin everything?
I have seen that you can go to Dulux Decorator centres and actually get the Dulux Trade Supermatt mixed with the right colour....
THANK YOU SO MUCH IN ADVANCE!
S.
Really hope you can help on this!
I moved to a new flat in London 2 months ago, the walls in the hallways were painted in light yellow and there was so sign of condensation/wet patches on wall at all.
We then started to paint the walls in the hallways with a Dulux grey paint matt - Chic Shadow. and started noticing paint not drying in some patches. This went on for quite a few weeks.
We then went into a specialist paint shop and they recommended we used a paint stain blocker such as B.I.N Zinnser across the area as this should have hopefully sealed it and we could have painted over with paint matt again.
This sorted the problem initially but the darker slightly wet patches have now been coming back in the same area.
The previous owners did a damp treatment course in the flat and this wall was taken care of - this was roughly 2014 and it is currently under warranty.
We had the damp specialist coming round today to have a look and they advised that I painted the walls with the wrong type of paint, I should have never used the Dulux vinyl emulsion and definitely NOT the B.I.N Zinnser. They think it is not rising damp as in fact it doesn't rise too high, it could be a mix of condensation however they suggested that using a "breathable" paint would work.
Their advice was to strip off all the paint, and use a suitable "Non-vinyl moisture permeable emulsion paint"
Can someone please help on this? I have done some research and Dulux Trade Supermatt white
keeps coming up as a good one.
My question is - if I decide to start painting the area with this, do I need to do the whole wall in the hallway or can I just focus on the areas I want to cover? Would I then be able to use the original Dulux matt emulsion Chic Shadow on it? Or would this ruin everything?
I have seen that you can go to Dulux Decorator centres and actually get the Dulux Trade Supermatt mixed with the right colour....
THANK YOU SO MUCH IN ADVANCE!
S.