Hi All,
We're currently renovating and redecorating our whole house. For the skirtings, doors and architraves, we wanted a white gloss finish, so chose Dulux Once Gloss. Big mistake! It has started to yellow already, and has only been on for 8 weeks. Where we had new skirting/architrave I undercoated - and then used the Dulux stuff. The new doors were pre-primed and so the gloss went straight on. The existing (gloss) woodwork was sanded back to bare wood, undercoated and glossed with the dulux.
Yellowing is most noticeable where there is no natural light, and I see looking online this is normal for oil based paints.....but surely not after such a short space of time? We live in a bungalow and the hallway is in the centre of the house with the rooms running round the perimiter - so the only natural light in there is what filters through the surrounding rooms - i.e. not much!
I see this is not uncommon for Dulux Once Gloss, it gets terrible reviews on the Internet from people experiencing the same problems. If only I checked first! Annoyingly we have had brand new carpets fitted in 2 rooms which means they will need to come up or I will need to be very careful.
What would you guys suggest as the way forward?
Ideally, we would still like a gloss finish. But not if it's going to need re-doing every 8 weeks! I understand the water based glosses don't yellow as quickly? If we went for a satinwood or even eggshell finish would the whites stay white longer?
Also now concerned that if we move away from oil gloss and go for water based gloss, or oil / water based satinwood / eggshell - am I going to need to sand back down to bare wood, or just kill the gloss with some sandpaper?
Have found lots of advice on the net but mostly pre-2010 when the new paint forumlations came in - there's so much contradictory advice out there - I would be really grateful to get an up to date opinion from someone that knows their stuff.
Thanks to all in advance for any help you can give
We're currently renovating and redecorating our whole house. For the skirtings, doors and architraves, we wanted a white gloss finish, so chose Dulux Once Gloss. Big mistake! It has started to yellow already, and has only been on for 8 weeks. Where we had new skirting/architrave I undercoated - and then used the Dulux stuff. The new doors were pre-primed and so the gloss went straight on. The existing (gloss) woodwork was sanded back to bare wood, undercoated and glossed with the dulux.
Yellowing is most noticeable where there is no natural light, and I see looking online this is normal for oil based paints.....but surely not after such a short space of time? We live in a bungalow and the hallway is in the centre of the house with the rooms running round the perimiter - so the only natural light in there is what filters through the surrounding rooms - i.e. not much!
I see this is not uncommon for Dulux Once Gloss, it gets terrible reviews on the Internet from people experiencing the same problems. If only I checked first! Annoyingly we have had brand new carpets fitted in 2 rooms which means they will need to come up or I will need to be very careful.
What would you guys suggest as the way forward?
Ideally, we would still like a gloss finish. But not if it's going to need re-doing every 8 weeks! I understand the water based glosses don't yellow as quickly? If we went for a satinwood or even eggshell finish would the whites stay white longer?
Also now concerned that if we move away from oil gloss and go for water based gloss, or oil / water based satinwood / eggshell - am I going to need to sand back down to bare wood, or just kill the gloss with some sandpaper?
Have found lots of advice on the net but mostly pre-2010 when the new paint forumlations came in - there's so much contradictory advice out there - I would be really grateful to get an up to date opinion from someone that knows their stuff.
Thanks to all in advance for any help you can give