Made a mess of painting a door!!

[HumpyD]

Painted an internal door at the weekend with Dulux water based gloss (mixed with a bit of Floetrol). My usual technique is to roller the door with a sponge sleeve and then lay off with a 3 inch fine finish brush and I have been pleased with the results in the past. However, this time was different!! For some reason I used a different brush to lay it off (still not sure why!!) and to say the end result was quite ridged is an understatement! I did try to sand and redo and whilst this has made it a little better, I'm still not happy with it.

I don't really what to sand again so would my only option be to use a chemical paint stripper and start again?

 

[footprints]

Sanding has got to be less work than stripping, you will need to rub down afterwards then prime & undercoat as well!

You could try going over the door with a good quality undercoat as that will have some degree of surface leveling effect.

 

[HumpyD]

Would you recommend an oil based undercoat for this rather than a water based one? Or do I have to use a water based one as I'm using a water based gloss?

This may also solve another problem - when I initially sanded the door I went down to wood and the water based gloss is rubbish at covering this so some kind of undercoat is probably the way to do this too.

 

[footprints]

Personally I prefer oil based, as the yellowing effect is not such a problem with undercoat as top coat and it is less prone to brushmarks that water based.

I am a bit of a stick in the mud I really don't like water based paint because of the very short open time (the Floetrol is a good idea) but you do get less yellowing with the water based top coat.

You will need to spot prime the bare areas, then use a proper undercoat not a primer/ undercoat, they tend to have less body as they need to be thin enough to soak in to bare areas.

 

[HumpyD]

Ditto with preferring oil based but the yellowing and the drying time has convinced me to go over to water based.