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Which paint to use - Please help!
beancounter1968
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Hi Everyone
Excuse the ramble but I felt it was needed to provide all the detail…
I would really appreciate some advice on the kind of paint that I need to use in my hallway. In a previous life the hallway and stairs had been wallpapered. Unfortunately I came along and stripped off the wallpaper. When I did this, I encountered some patches of wallpaper lining which I could not get rid of (patience is very small on DIY matters? I sanded these down to what I thought was level but in reality was a very poor job. Anyway I painted the walls with a magnolia emulsion. The result was so so. If you looked at the walls side on, it was like looking at a map. That was some years ago and I have lived with it. Now to the present. I had seen something advertised on TV called polycell smooth over. I thought that this would cover the multitude of my sins – I was wrong and this stuff is useless. I have taken it back. Now I just want to paint my walls and for it to look good. I also want to be able to be flexible with colour as I know that textured paints only seem to come on white. Is it a case of white textured paint and then the colour of my choice?
Thank you for getting to the end and any advice would be greatly appreciated
Phil
Excuse the ramble but I felt it was needed to provide all the detail…
I would really appreciate some advice on the kind of paint that I need to use in my hallway. In a previous life the hallway and stairs had been wallpapered. Unfortunately I came along and stripped off the wallpaper. When I did this, I encountered some patches of wallpaper lining which I could not get rid of (patience is very small on DIY matters? I sanded these down to what I thought was level but in reality was a very poor job. Anyway I painted the walls with a magnolia emulsion. The result was so so. If you looked at the walls side on, it was like looking at a map. That was some years ago and I have lived with it. Now to the present. I had seen something advertised on TV called polycell smooth over. I thought that this would cover the multitude of my sins – I was wrong and this stuff is useless. I have taken it back. Now I just want to paint my walls and for it to look good. I also want to be able to be flexible with colour as I know that textured paints only seem to come on white. Is it a case of white textured paint and then the colour of my choice?
Thank you for getting to the end and any advice would be greatly appreciated
Phil
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i would re paper the wall with good quaulity backing paper and then paint over the top..
to get a good finish for painting, the wall has to be perfect or as you have found out the finish is bad
sorry i cant be more helpfull, i dont think theirs a quick fix on this one!!WAS DEBT FREE & STILL BAAARRRRRKING :cool:
hello my name is shaun,,,and im not so addicted to farmville,still addicted to football:o:o
BAAAARRRRRRRRRRKING er insanely so
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