I've just had my study decorated. Its upstairs in the roof area so has a ceiling with sloping sides and the flat bit is over an open staircase so admittedly a bit difficult. The ceiling looked OK before apart from being very dirty and a few cracks in the plaster which he has repaired very well. However, it now looks terrible, patchy and stipey. I watched him putting on yet another coat and his roller technique was terrible. I could see he wasn't joining to the wet surface and was leaving dry bits between each strip. The walls are the same - you can see stripes if you stand in the corner and look down and where he has cut in with a brush under the dado and above the radiator the paint is a denser colour than the rollered bit in between (he thins the paint though the tin says don't) and so looks a bit dirty. He prepared well but just doesn't seem to have the hang of rollering.
What I wanted to ask is that if I roller over the obviously missed bits with the same paint, will this achieve an improvement or just make things worse?
He's also painted the loft hatch with the trapdoor in situ; and painted the louvre window frame with the ventilator open. Luckily I noticed the latter before it stuck and opened it, revealing a dirty unpainted bit. Only one coat of satinwood on the skirtings; he says that's all skirtings need which is ridiculous as skirtings get knocked more than the doors, which he has only painted one side though they open from the eaves storage into the room.
He's now doing the room below and has just painted the cornice and done a 2-3 inch brushed cut in above and below and above the skirtings etc. with a different type of matt emulsion from what he is using on the ceiling. He thins the emulsion though the tin says not to unless for a sealing coat for new plaster.
I could do without the aggro as my husband has incurable cancer and Parkinson's and is very frail and a lot of my time is spent taking him to various hospitals and clinics.
Incidentally, he knocks off very early in the afternoon (1.10 pm yesterday), having started at 9 a.m., so it is going on for ever.
What I wanted to ask is that if I roller over the obviously missed bits with the same paint, will this achieve an improvement or just make things worse?
He's also painted the loft hatch with the trapdoor in situ; and painted the louvre window frame with the ventilator open. Luckily I noticed the latter before it stuck and opened it, revealing a dirty unpainted bit. Only one coat of satinwood on the skirtings; he says that's all skirtings need which is ridiculous as skirtings get knocked more than the doors, which he has only painted one side though they open from the eaves storage into the room.
He's now doing the room below and has just painted the cornice and done a 2-3 inch brushed cut in above and below and above the skirtings etc. with a different type of matt emulsion from what he is using on the ceiling. He thins the emulsion though the tin says not to unless for a sealing coat for new plaster.
I could do without the aggro as my husband has incurable cancer and Parkinson's and is very frail and a lot of my time is spent taking him to various hospitals and clinics.
Incidentally, he knocks off very early in the afternoon (1.10 pm yesterday), having started at 9 a.m., so it is going on for ever.