Paint job on front door

[Sharon Daniel]

My friend painted my new primed howdens door. She sanded it down and then painted it with farrow and Ball gloss 2 coats so far .It still very patchy. Would you suggest just to keep going with more coats. I think they should have done an undercoat first

 

[Notch7]

Farrow and Ball is known to have poor opacity, esp some colours.

hindsight and all that but gray undercoat would’ve helped.

sand back between coats and keep going it might need 5 coats.

The person painting might want to do a bit more laying off…….

 

[Sharon Daniel]

ok great many thanks yes I know farrow and ball often need more coats ....

 

[Wayners]

Read back of tin or even better application data sheet online for help.
Wanted a coloured undercoat on prior.
Follow recoat times.

 

[opps]

I am not a fan of F&B paints, but to be fair, any brand would struggle to go from white to that shade of green. As others have said, she needs grey undercoat first .

I suspect that this is recommended undercoat

https://www.farrow-ball.com/primers-undercoats/exterior-wood-primer-undercoat

At £24 for a 0.75L tin, personally, I would use a grey (waterbased) undercoat from a cheaper brand.

Sanding between coats, is only necessary if the last coat has fully cured (baring the need to flatten brushmarks or sand back contaminants). Waterbased paints typically take about 7 days to fully cure, dark glosses will take longer. If the door does need sanding, consider using 180 to 220 grit paper. I would recommend using a mesh type of abrasive rather than paper backed abrasives. Waterbased finishes can clog the grit on paper backed abrasives and eventually rip the waterbased finish.

Abranet is a decent mesh based abrasive.

https://www.duluxdecoratorcentre.co...m-x-2-5m?returnurl=/search?q=abranet&count=18