Best way to cover red walls?

Melonade

Hi, I'm planning on painting my sons room in 2 weeks while he's away for 5 days with school. I need to know the cheapest way to paint over the red walls so I can paint them blue.

I've looked on the B&Q site at some undercoats, they grey ones seem to be for wood or metal so I was wondering if I could buy a grey emulsion to use as an undercoat? Would grey cover better than a white undercoat?

I knew those red walls would bite me on the behind eventually :rotfl:

Browntoa

i'd use cheap white emulsion as a base coat , then the Blue on top

Fire_Fox

I painted over a dark orange wall to make it a really pale greeny-grey in only two well-applied coats. First was an own brand one-coat white, then standard emulsion in the final colour over the top. The only thing I would say is one coat paint doesn't give quite as fine finish as standard emulsion, so if you were a perfectionist you might lightly sand the surface between coats.

craig777

A coat of decent quality magnolia will do the trick as an undercoat (not some 'value' range stuff though). Magnolia will cover better than white.

Melonade

Thanks for all the advice I might have a tub of magnolia in the shed... I'll try and find it tomorrow. If not I know I've got some white somewere. My son has just told me he wants quite a bright blue, nothing too light. So that should take some of the work out of covering the red... hopefully

Thanks again.

Squish_21

Plenty of coats of white or cream paint, w/e you have thats pale and hanging around really.

stompin-sarah

im dreading repainting my living room! as its got 2 red walls and 2 black walls!!!!!! its nice though... but i am going to want to change at some point lol

slummymummyof3

Don't waste your money on buying a cheap and cheerful white/magnolia paint as it will take far more coats to cover up than a decent quality paint such as Dulux or Crown. That old addage (sp???) of you get what you pay for!

ormus

add some of the blue to your undercoat. esp if youre painting a dark blue.