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You should check out my situation. Very similar. We have some sort of water way passing under our house so water seeps into the subfloor. It's 1mtr from joist to floor. We have a sump pump fitted & our room suffers badly from damp because of the water. I also had the solid floor...

The wife wants to get painting in the kitchen, so obviously out of these 3 you'd think kitchen+, but hold your horses, there's a reason for me asking... In the kitchen there's a few black spots on the wallpaper that is in the diner (it's a kitchen/diner in one). Assuming through condensation...

dcdec - why do you slate Dulux so badly? Or to put the question perhaps better, why have Dulux 'fallen off' so badly? Like i've said before, coming into this i knew of Dulux, Crown & Johnstones & that was it. Dulux was "THE" paint. It's only through forums i've found this isn't true. So...

Regards the comment about ferrous metals & the marking - Turns out Palladium is non-ferrous. Can't speak for my car keys. So there must be a reason why certain metals mark it but others don't. Also if everything is going to go down the water based route then the manufacturers really are...

I've just noticed the sanding question didn't get answered. Haven't been able to do anything on the house today unfortunately as had folk down & it was late before they left. I checked & it's 60 grit aluminium oxide that's the roughest. Do i need to work (or rather SHOULD i work...)...

I don't think i've opened it. Although having just said that, i might've done just to have a look see what it was like & what it smelled like (no, i'm not a worrying paint sniffer! lol). I bought the BIN in because from all the reading up i did it came back as being best consistently. Other...

Hmm interesting. Still, it seems we will have to prioritise. There will be times we put our car keys on the windowledge i suppose. The wifes ring will be a rare thing but may happen. The one that worries me is how putting my clock on it marked it when it only weighs naff all.

That'd be an annoying one if correct since it cost a bit. Question: Is it ok to use to treat the knots but to then put primer/undercoat & then top coat on afterwards?

My God, i don't know what the previous owners did when they painted one doorframe but they made a royal hash of it. My wife said it was flaking badly & she could fingernail it off. I put the scraper to it & it was like it just melted off. It was terrible. I wonder if that's how all...

Oh I know what you're saying. It's a case of prioritising. The windowsill for example will have something placed on it. I left a very small very light plastic clock on there overnight. The next night I moved it (picked it up, not scraped it along) & it had marked the surface slightly. So it...

Oh i agree - it's only a matter of time before oil based gets faded out big time as the world marches towards being even greener. But in the meantime.... :) Plus from my limited experience, w/b needs more development, much more. I appreciate what you're saying about the cure time, the...

Yup I found an email Zinsser sent back to me so it's the BIN I have. Just need to select my oil primer/undercoat & satin (think we've decided now) top coat & we're good to go. Weekend of sanding ahead I think.

Oh dear, there's one i didn't think of... We were all set for a totally water based system right from primer>top coat. Now we're going to certainly go oil based i'm wondering if this presents a problem. I have no issue buying in new primer for the job. Thing is the door frames are terribly...

Well this problem has been well & truly sorted tonight.... As i've said - the marking on the Johnstones Aqua w/b gloss which is supposed to be the best of its type. Did i say i was hitting the satin on the door frame with a screwdriver? I meant gloss, which was oil based & didn't leave a...

I'm not here saying you're wrong or right when I ask - if it's history then why do painter/decorators still insist on using it? I'm not saying they don't use water based as it all gets used, but why still oil if it's history? And for the ring - I wasn't :) She did. And it could easily happen...

I must say that the water based gloss i've put on doesn't 'dent' at all. I've been giving it a fair old whack but it certainly hasn't dented. It does however mark (i'll post photos at the end). I agree with the brush marks, but then i don't think what i've done looks terrible to me. It will...

Interesting. In our house the previous owner did the windowledge in oil based gloss. We can tell this as there's a part used tin in the shed. Smack this a few times & it doesn't mark at all & that's with keys, screwdriver etc. It also hasn't yellowed but then it's on the side that gets a...

Had a chat with the boss (wife) & it's decided that whiteness is probably going to be preferred over a glossy look. As you can see, we're undecided. We tried w/b gloss - no go If we decide oil based gloss - Sikkens on the back of the recommendation here. It's looking like after tonight...

Just had a look at that Sikkens XD - it says not for use indoors, so that'd be no good to me. If 24 hours is no good going from undercoat>top coat then how long would you say to leave it for it to dry & avoid these marks? & out of interest, what do you guys use when doing door...

Thanks. Where do Sikkens stand in the grand scheme of things then? I dare say most DIYers think Dulux is 'the' brand to go to. I certainly did before i started coming to online forums. From reading online though they seem to be like what Volkswagen are to the car world - trading off the...