Gloss / Satinwood Preparation Requirments

[vards01]

Hi,

Hope someone can offer some advice:

My problem is this, I have a whole house to redecorate, in general all the gloss work is very good, just suffers from looking dull and nicotine stains.

Am I right in thinking I will have to sugarsoap and undercoat (X2) first then gloss/satinwood (X2).....I was hoping there is a much quicker way.....I will be here forever!!

Someone in the trade may know what the quickest way / what you can get away with is......

I'm planning on renting the property out, so need to get it sorted as quick as poss......

 

[Pigeon85]

Your best bet would be sand to take off the shine dust off then oil based undercoat then gloss (one of each would do)

 

[vards01]

Thanks for that, will give it a go, although the undercoat I have is dulux waterbased.

I was hoping someone was going to say light sand and gloss straight over 1 coat.....

 

[vards01]

Turns out that Satinwood doesn't require an undercoat......so I will see if I can get away with a light sand and one coat of this.....it does recommend 2 but we shall see.......