Hi
We had a horrid spare room, with old wallpaper and border which we have sepnd the past god knows how long stripping. Under the said floral wallpaper, we unhelpfully found layers of flaky paint...so another week has passed chipping away the paint where possible. We now have almost 4 walls of bare plaster. There are still patches of paint which refuse to be scrapped away (large 4 inch razor blade style scraper). We've sanded down with an electric sander any ridges between the remainign paint and the bare plaster and also seem to have managed to get some of the chunks out of the plaster than i may have made when over-enthusiastically scrapping...
So my question is as follows....
We have scrapped, sanded...what next before we paint? We have 90% bare plaster with patches of olf paint that is stable and smooth. We also need to polyfill so i guess strickly speaking that is next.... But after that....would you smart folks reccomend a mist coat to see how it goes then sand again if necessary then paint with chosen dulux emulsion? im eharing about vinyl coats/ blah blah but thats making me very confused, is a mist coat the way to go with 50/50 matt emulsion then good to go?
Thanks for the help clever people.
We had a horrid spare room, with old wallpaper and border which we have sepnd the past god knows how long stripping. Under the said floral wallpaper, we unhelpfully found layers of flaky paint...so another week has passed chipping away the paint where possible. We now have almost 4 walls of bare plaster. There are still patches of paint which refuse to be scrapped away (large 4 inch razor blade style scraper). We've sanded down with an electric sander any ridges between the remainign paint and the bare plaster and also seem to have managed to get some of the chunks out of the plaster than i may have made when over-enthusiastically scrapping...
So my question is as follows....
We have scrapped, sanded...what next before we paint? We have 90% bare plaster with patches of olf paint that is stable and smooth. We also need to polyfill so i guess strickly speaking that is next.... But after that....would you smart folks reccomend a mist coat to see how it goes then sand again if necessary then paint with chosen dulux emulsion? im eharing about vinyl coats/ blah blah but thats making me very confused, is a mist coat the way to go with 50/50 matt emulsion then good to go?
Thanks for the help clever people.