Candle Soot and Coving

[topgazza]

Not a suggestion for a finish...

We have used some nice big candles in our lounge at floor level over the winter as it warms up the room at that level. With the sunshine of the past few days it has shown the walls and the coving on that side of the lounge as being dirty looking.

So I redecorated today but had to give the, plaster, coving 4 coats of Dulux brilliant white emulsion to get a nice white finish. Thats after wiping down the coving before I started. What a mess. The walls just took the one coat of Antique White silk where there was no "soot" but two elsewhere

Got there in the end and the room looks clean and nice again. Candles now banished to the cupboard...forever.

 

[Robbie uk]

Give surfaces a good sugar soaping first before painting. You could paint the wall with oil based paint to stop any staining if you wanted.

 

[topgazza]

Thanks Robbie. I did the doors with that but didn't think of doing the walls and coving..good tip.

You don't think of candles causing so much soot...but they do of course.