My husband has recently painted a room that was newly plastered. He ignored the instructions on the paint tin which recommended sanding the walls and watering the paint down before using! He has used vinyl silk and the paint has peeled in a small area and peels off. However this isn't the case all over and in other areas is more difficult to scrape off. He is currently scraping this off with a wallpaper scraper (think its going to take until next christmas to remove) Does anyone have an effective way of getting this paint off more effectively and without causing damage to my newly plastered walls?
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Well to start with you should NEVER sand a new skim coat. If it needs sanding then it's a bodge.
if you are lucky you won't have too many nicks and you can fill it with easy fill and sand it - but with silk paint you will NEVER get it right.
Re-skim is really the only way forward.
BTW, what colour were the walls and did the plasterer sand them?
if you are lucky you won't have too many nicks and you can fill it with easy fill and sand it - but with silk paint you will NEVER get it right.
Re-skim is really the only way forward.
BTW, what colour were the walls and did the plasterer sand them?
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The smooth silky surface of the new plaster is coming off with the paint, not sure if the result is the 'suede' effect that you are talking about. Thank you for your time. I think the way forward is to re skim (arghhhh!!!!!!) and to kill my bleeding husband!
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