paint adhesion

Hi there, Would really appreciate some advice. I bought a house a few months ago and hired a painter and decorator to strip the wallpaper clean the walls and to paint the walls of the living room. He explained the walls were not in good condition but was happy to do it. After painting the...

any ideas on what to do? I recently had all my walls plastered. I left them just over a week to dry and then used an undercoat designed for metal accidentally. The paint is oil based, so I just wanted to check what was best to do? Should I use a paint stripper like paint panther? Will this...

Recently purchased a house and wanted to repaint the walls in the office. Assuming it is drywall/plasterboard. I started by washing down the walls with some light soap and water - which resulted in most of the existing white paint coming right off the wall and into the bucket. It did the same...

My husband has painted a room & all looks fine apart from this small section of the wall. What could be causing this?? Please help. Thanks, Jodie

We live in an 1850's house constructed of solid ~1m thick solid stone walls. The pictures show residual damage caused by a leak, which is now fully resolved, today the wall is not damp. However, as per the pictures there continues to be some kind of reactions going on in the wall causing paint...

So I’ve moved into a new build at the end of March and just gotten around to trying to paint the plaster walls. I had a viewing in January and the walls had been plastered by then so they’ve had at least a few months to dry out. Went in with a mist coat as recommended and made sure to dilute it...

I got some bad advice from an overworked member of staff at a consumer DIY store. I got sold some Dulux trade solvent-based undercoat for wood and metal. Having painted this all over the walls and ceilings of a room in my house, I am realising my Farrow & Ball All White Modern Emulsion is not...

I have recently had a plaster repair job completed, and having left it to dry out for a few weeks, applied some Farrow and Ball paint to the surface. Two coats in with a roller and the paint appears to have cracked as it has dried, flaking away from the wall surface. This is only in a couple of...

Hello, Looking for some advice about primer. We have stripped the walls in our 1930s house. The walls are in quite good condition, nice and flat. In one room, we have sanded down, filled any minor dents, painted one coat of basic white emulsion, then our colours on top. The problem is, the...

Hi, I have just done a mist coat on a newly plastered wall. There are patches where the mist coat doesn’t seem to have taken fully. Would this be ok to paint over in 24 hours? Or do I need to put something else on the wall?

Hello Sorry if this seems really simple but I just wanted to get some advice: I tried painting our bathroom (accidentally with normal wall & ceiling paint) last year. Every time I took the masking tape off, the paint came off with it (despite using different tapes, hairdryers etc). Firstly, is...

Hi, I have a couple of areas where the emulsion has peeled off part of the wall because the plaster wasn't sealed properly I think. I want to try to blend the smooth plastered part to the part with several coats of paint. I'm wondering if I can add a bit of pollyfiller or plasterboard adhesive...

Hello, I’m going to be painting my bathroom ceiling which was never primed (new build) and after 5 years has started to peel so can’t really argue with it. I’ve removed all of the peeling / flaking and sanded down the edges but need a little help on the ordering of the next steps, this is my...

Hi We recently has the bedroom walls skimmed and left the plaster for about a week before doing a mist coat. We used watered down leylands (I’m not sure on the exact ratio, but I was super generous with the water to be on the safe side), and did 2 coats of this. It was left like this for...

Hi all, I was hoping for some advice please. I painted our 6ft high brick garden wall top and side during some good weather in September. I pressure washed the whole wall & top well beforehand. The brick was in good condition and clean. I then used 2 coats of Sandtex masonry paint. It...

This is my 2nd attempt at painting my recently skimmed bathroom and getting same results. First was a un-thinned primer which peeled right off, once dry, back to the plaster after i applied a bathroom paint. So scrapped the whole lot off. 2nd attempt i did some research and bought dulux super...

I feel like I've written about this a million times, but here goes.... When I moved in my property 8 years ago, I had tha bathroom retiled and the bathroom wall replastered. It's an exterior brick wall in a victorian house. It then transpired the tiles were fixed directly to the plaster, with...

I feel like I've written about this a million times, but here goes.... When I moved in my property 8 years ago, I had tha bathroom retiled and the bathroom wall replastered. It's an exterior brick wall in a victorian house. It then transpired the tiles were fixed directly to the plaster, with...

Hi All, I have run into a slight problem, my ceiling had some very bad cracks in them, I reached out to my plaster who plastered the ceiling and cracks. A month passed and the same old cracks returned. Mist coat was applied to the new plaster ceiling after a few weeks. I informed my plasterer...

hello! I hope someone can help. We recently had a hallway replastered, following a damp course. I applied a mist coat of watered down emulsion, and it has come up with a mapping effect - that is to say big raised patches where the mist coat hasn’t properly sunk into the walls. I somewhat...