Hi there - not sure if this should be on the DIY Disasters forum but thought (hoped) you decorating experts might be able to help. Many thanks for any advice you can give.
Decorating a small spare room and used Dulux Absolute White Light and Space as a top coat on three walls (over Leyland Contract Matt to save money). All good.
Then painted fourth wall in a Wilko tough matt emulsion deep yellow (one coat, very patchy but loved the colour). Next morning realised that the deep yellow has the effect of making the white wall opposite look really yellow and dingey. (I know - seems obvious now!)
So I decided I would paint over it and have all four walls white. Such an idiot. Without keying the surface, I cut in all round the wall and rolled on one coat pf Leyland contract. V v patchy but thought it would just need more coats. When I went to add another coat the roller is basically peeling off the first layer of white which won't adhere to the yellow Wilko paint underneath. I tried putting on a thicker layer - with a brush - and it adhered a bit better but I think I could probably rub it off with a paper towel and not much effort.
So my question is...what do I do now?! Should I try to wash the paint off the wall? Or sand the wall with a pole sander (I'm thinking the sandpaper will become clogged with the contract white without keying the surface of the yellow paint)? Or would some kind of primer go over the white and bond the two paints together? I have some Zinnser B-I-N I was going to use to undercoat the skirting boards and architrave - would that work?
Really grateful for any help you can give.
Thank you so much!
Decorating a small spare room and used Dulux Absolute White Light and Space as a top coat on three walls (over Leyland Contract Matt to save money). All good.
Then painted fourth wall in a Wilko tough matt emulsion deep yellow (one coat, very patchy but loved the colour). Next morning realised that the deep yellow has the effect of making the white wall opposite look really yellow and dingey. (I know - seems obvious now!)
So I decided I would paint over it and have all four walls white. Such an idiot. Without keying the surface, I cut in all round the wall and rolled on one coat pf Leyland contract. V v patchy but thought it would just need more coats. When I went to add another coat the roller is basically peeling off the first layer of white which won't adhere to the yellow Wilko paint underneath. I tried putting on a thicker layer - with a brush - and it adhered a bit better but I think I could probably rub it off with a paper towel and not much effort.
So my question is...what do I do now?! Should I try to wash the paint off the wall? Or sand the wall with a pole sander (I'm thinking the sandpaper will become clogged with the contract white without keying the surface of the yellow paint)? Or would some kind of primer go over the white and bond the two paints together? I have some Zinnser B-I-N I was going to use to undercoat the skirting boards and architrave - would that work?
Really grateful for any help you can give.
Thank you so much!
