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Also, a hairdryer on an extention cord can be a great painters mate!

If you've filled and sanded you will need a primer/undercoat first before any gloss goes on. You can get this in acrylic but even water base will be difficult to dry at the moment.

To paint the door you'd be better off putting a stain block primer on first. The red zinsser B.I.N. would be good but it is like milk so don't go mad with it. Maybe two coats of that

Good job, looks great! (y)

You can go straight onto gloss if you get the dulux trade diamond satinwood paint. Two coats and sorted!

Also. The amount of new builds that have the contract paint as a finish. New owners getting dusty paint on their clothes every time they rub up the walls.

He who dares Rodney! (y):)

Guessing you mean the stair rails and spindles. Wood stain is painted from bare wood. It gets darker the more coats you put on.it looks like you're trying to put wood stain on top of white gloss. You would be better sanding it back down to bare wood then the wood stain will look correct. A big job !

If you're going to use a vinyl paint for a mist coat make sure the plaster is completely dry first. The contract matt will let any moisture out!

Hmm, looking at that it can be a personal choice how you paper it. You could even leave the sloping wall as part of the ceiling. (More likely in a loft though. Having that coving on the other wall also adds to things. So if you want it all papered I would paper left to right doing the left wall...

Yes, it's there or there abouts. If you accidentally do 85/15 it's not going to matter. Or even 80 /20 (8 litres and 2 or 4 litres and 1) 50/50 will work but you'd have to probably do it twice. Hence another mist coat will be sound enough.

I wallpaper most weeks and I'm sorry but I too don't understand what you mean. Can you post some pictures?

Is the white the colour the wall was before you painted? Could it be misses? If not misses then I guess it must be something on the wall. What it is though could be anything. I don't suppose the ceiling has been replastered or anything?

Did it bubble up where the pin holes are? It could be spray from a can of pop or residue from some cleaning spray.

I always use ready mix paste now and on paste the wall I still paste the paper as normal but zero soak time. I find pasting the wall gives me a longer job as you are constantly putting wet paste onto your nice new wallpaper so you have to sponge it off. Also things like radiators are...

70/30 won't be a problem. I may be wrong but from the picture it looks like you've got some roller edges on show. If you run your hand across the wall can you feel a lip where the roller has been. You will always get some more dense areas on a mist coat where you overlap each band of paint...

It would help but it's best to really load the roller and see if you can do it in bands from top to bottom. That way you'll know where you've got to.

It will look good but will go yellow after time!

Yes. Rads look brand new too when done.

Could you cut the spotlights in free hand? Dip the brush and swoop the wrist, try to get the whole circle in one movement.