Best paint?

[steve_earwig]

When I was living down at my dad's in Sussex a few years back he was doing a bit of the old DIY (nothing much, just moving walls, blocking doorways and building more, that sort of thing ), the only problem was what colour to paint it all, seems he has about as much interest in that sort of thing as I do. To the paint shop! Colour charts, colour charts, test post blah blah blah... I think most of the house ended up magnolia

When I moved into my gaff here I painted absolutely everything white just to make it clean. I did start repainting everything blue and grey, until I discovered these are the worst colours for setting of my migraines

[mjb]

Just re-done one of my bedrooms with Dulux. Needed 2 coats for the feature wall (pretty bold colour) and 3 for the much weaker colour on the other walls because the old colour was a hideous dark bluey green and the new one's very light

Masked off the edges, used a harris brush (not bad) and cheapo roller (not good), and I've just bought a couple of tins of white to do the skirting boards and the ceiling where the masking tape has ripped the paint off

[Welly]

where the masking tape has ripped the paint off

Welly, he say use big brush and steady hand for cutting-in. He say you no use masking tape..........

I'm gonna take some pics of my ubber cutting-in to show you.........

[steve_earwig]

Was that masking tape or gaffer tape? That's weird, I thought it'd do that until I watched a couple of professional house painters here, I've used masking tape ever since

[Welly]

You can use a low-tack masking tape for painting but it's quite expensive.

Proff decorators in the UK don't really bother, mind you if you see the state of most finished plasterwork in the UK you'd struggle to find a corner sharp enough to even use any masking

[steve_earwig]

My hand just isn't that steady Ah well, scratch what I said about masking, different materials I guess.

Just to prove I didn't make it up:


(hmm, I see that water stain's on its way through again, they don't believe in flashing here, and anyway why does a 2 bed bungalow need 4 chimneys? )

[Welly]

Water stains seem to enjoy taking eleventy million coats to cover them

[no2lurch]

tip of the day - use nornal masking tape but drag it over your trouser leg first. less sticky but stills ticky enough!

[steve_earwig]

Water stains seem to enjoy taking eleventy million coats to cover them

My flat I lived in in the 90s had loads of water stains on the ceiling from a leaky flat roof, I got a tin of spray from a DIY store which covered it up no worries, painted over it & it stayed like that for the next couple of years. I worked my way through everything I could find here until I found something the stain didn't immediately leech through, obviously it still wasn't that good

I bet Discopugpol123 (or whatever it is this week ) has the same problems, stuff you take for granted back in Blighty just doesn't exist elsewhere and it's a struggle to find what they do have that actually does the job. Ashfelt? You must be joking. Cuprinol? Hahahahaha Have you got anything I can paint on a wall to stop moisture getting through it? Umm, tar.

[teamster1975]

I'm adding to this a bit late seeing as you've done the job Alex!
Wickes professional paint is pretty good, it needs a bloody good stir before you use it but it covers well. Two coats though, especially if you're painting a mucky ceiling! Also use oil based undercoat to cover any water stains on the ceiling/walls before painting.

[steve_earwig]

*wonders if he can paint the entire ceiling in oil-based gloss paint*

[teamster1975]

*wonders if he can paint the entire ceiling in oil-based gloss paint*

Indeed! And the walls! Easy clean for the mucky little fingers!! (Sod your silk paint, that wipes away after a few cleans )
My kids latest (and short lived ) trick is decorating the walls with crayons