Hello,
I've recently had a new bathroom fitted and am now doing the decorating myself.
The previous owner of the house painted the room with glossy bathroom paint. Unfortunately the colour isn't great, and the bathroom fitters have had to do some rewiring so there's some exposed plaster. It seems time to repaint the room.
My first instinct was to strip the paint back to the plaster. I started doing so, but about two hours into the job realised that it would take me about a week. So, I'd like to paint right onto the bathroom paint.
I spent this afternoon sanding back the gloss a bit with an electric sander, just to take some of the shine off it and hopefully help new paint adhere to it.
My question is what to do next. I am a first-time homeowner so I don't really know what I'm doing. How do I prepare the walls now bearing in mind that they are 90% still covered in the original bathroom paint (albeit with the gloss knocked back a bit), but with some quite large areas of bare plaster showing?
I'd like to use glossy bathroom paint again (I like its waterproof qualities), but I need to know how to "prime" the walls first.
Thanks.
I've recently had a new bathroom fitted and am now doing the decorating myself.
The previous owner of the house painted the room with glossy bathroom paint. Unfortunately the colour isn't great, and the bathroom fitters have had to do some rewiring so there's some exposed plaster. It seems time to repaint the room.
My first instinct was to strip the paint back to the plaster. I started doing so, but about two hours into the job realised that it would take me about a week. So, I'd like to paint right onto the bathroom paint.
I spent this afternoon sanding back the gloss a bit with an electric sander, just to take some of the shine off it and hopefully help new paint adhere to it.
My question is what to do next. I am a first-time homeowner so I don't really know what I'm doing. How do I prepare the walls now bearing in mind that they are 90% still covered in the original bathroom paint (albeit with the gloss knocked back a bit), but with some quite large areas of bare plaster showing?
I'd like to use glossy bathroom paint again (I like its waterproof qualities), but I need to know how to "prime" the walls first.
Thanks.