Painting Ceiling in Kitchen

mac123

Hi
Just began to strip the 'bobbly' wallpaper from kitchen ceiling and underneath it is a material that i wouldn't be able to paint straight onto (think it's just concrete(?)

Apart from wallpapering it (hate it) and ideas on what i could use to at least make it look respectable

Thanks

Mac

tomstickland

Concrete? Are you sure it's not unpainted plaster? I guess that it's the same as new plaster. ie: paint a water-PVA adhesive mix onto it first.

mac123

well it has the look of concrete but when i was scraping the paper, it felt like plaster, what do you mean by painting water and pva mix??

tomstickland

We found out the hard way - if you just paint new plaster then the paint can dry out too quickly and it then flakes back off. So first you make a mix of water with some PVA adhesive in it and paint that on. PVA is builders white glue, cheap from builders merchant or B&Qbase etc.

mac123

Thanks!!

Do you think ineed to do this even though it's not new plaster??

Then, when i've done this, do you think just normal paint will be ok or textured paint??

Cheers again

Mac

tomstickland

Personally I'd slap some water-PVA mix on and then leave it for a bit and then paint.

mac123

Cheers

One final thing, stripped walls to concrete (again, i think), where the electrics are and the cables have been channelled into the wall and plastered over, the walls aren't flat (in short, when the wallpaper was on, you could see the raised channel)

I want to paint the walls so is there a paint to use that's better hiding this and also, can i paint directly onto the concrete?? dont want to pay for plasterer as skint and big room!!

Thanks