Following decorating - A few areas to patch and repaint - best course of action?

[stoobloo]

We've decorated 4 rooms this past year and have noticed there are a few areas that need a bit of TLC. Obviously it would have been easier if we'd have noticed before we'd painted, but we didn't.

There's a few bumps from moving things after decorating, as well as areas where the paint/plaster finish is a bit bobbly and not level. One area is where there's an almost floor to ceiling hairline crack that revealed itself a few months after being plastered. We rather badly gouged along the crack, filled it with flexible filler (Toupret) and then attempted to level it with the rest of the wall with a coat of Easi Fill and some sanding - the worst part was the sanding leaving it bobbly and sticks out like a sore thumb - especially with artificial light! It was done by hand rather than with a flat hand sander.

I was thinking of hand sanding with 180grit sandpaper these areas, apply some Toupret interior filler where needed, sand, paint. Does this sound like a decent thing to do?

Will I need to paint using a roller, or would a brush suffice as they are largely small areas?

 

[yorksbuilder]

Your plan sounds fine but due to the time that has passed etc, be prepared to repaint entire walls rather than just the patches. As they can often show up otherwise, even if you use the same paint. If it was previously painted with a roller, use a roller for the patches too

 

[opps]

If the Toupret "flex and fill" was a tad proud, you would benefit from sanding it with a random orbital sander first.

Given that it shrinks back, I try to ensure that it is slightly below the surface.

I suspect that using Easifill means that when you sanded, because the Easifill is so soft, the sandpaper just sanded the Easifill and not the proud bits of "flex and fill".

With the above, I think you need to sand away the easifill. If you coat over it with regular Toupret, when you sand that, the edges of the easifill will rip the regular Toupret away (unless you use a really wide filling knife).