Hi,
I am having a nightmare and need some advice. I had my dinning room replastered. Poor plastering job to be honest. The walls are not very level, so when I fitted my coving (covemaster, polystyrene paper wrapped coving) I had to use large amounts of adhesive to fill the varying gap sizes between the walls/ceiling and the coving. Coving went up ok, and it looks fine, but as the adhesive has dried small hairline cracks have appeared on some of the joints. This maybe due to the large amount of adhesive? or maybe the coving adhesive I have used is faulty?
Anyway, my requirement is I needed to get rid of these hairline cracks. I Chaulked and then painted with emulsion. It looks like the chaulk has worked well, but then the emulsion I am using (crown matt) cracks on the chaulk! I read the solution was to use an oil based undercoat first then emulsion. I tried this but still had some very small cracks (the undercoat was crown performance series undercoat).
What is going wrong, is my main problem I am using crown emulsion? Is it rubbish stuff?
What paint can I use on the chaulk (soudall, B&Q) which will not crack and I also need to be able to use the paint on the ceiling, coving too (so the colour is the same). What about the polycell flexible ceiling paint?
Thanks in advance.
I am having a nightmare and need some advice. I had my dinning room replastered. Poor plastering job to be honest. The walls are not very level, so when I fitted my coving (covemaster, polystyrene paper wrapped coving) I had to use large amounts of adhesive to fill the varying gap sizes between the walls/ceiling and the coving. Coving went up ok, and it looks fine, but as the adhesive has dried small hairline cracks have appeared on some of the joints. This maybe due to the large amount of adhesive? or maybe the coving adhesive I have used is faulty?
Anyway, my requirement is I needed to get rid of these hairline cracks. I Chaulked and then painted with emulsion. It looks like the chaulk has worked well, but then the emulsion I am using (crown matt) cracks on the chaulk! I read the solution was to use an oil based undercoat first then emulsion. I tried this but still had some very small cracks (the undercoat was crown performance series undercoat).
What is going wrong, is my main problem I am using crown emulsion? Is it rubbish stuff?
What paint can I use on the chaulk (soudall, B&Q) which will not crack and I also need to be able to use the paint on the ceiling, coving too (so the colour is the same). What about the polycell flexible ceiling paint?
Thanks in advance.