Gloss paint on walls

carefullycautious

I have been horrified to find that underneath the wallpaper in my kitchen someone has painted the walls with Gloss dark green paint. Im fairly sure that the same may be lurking under the hallway paper also.

How on earth can I get over this. Is it a simple case of painting over or do I need to sand paper it off.

I think I need a lie down just thinking about the potential horror of having to sand it down

Help!!!!!!!

hungrynurse_2

is the wall paper in good condition? If so just paint over it, they did it on 60 minute makeover last week! Failing that, I would just paint over it, then paint over it, then paint over it, then paint over it, then paint over it until you see little green. Toss up between using cheap white emulsion or something more expesive which will need less coats, or you could test someone on their '1 cost guarantee'!

TomsMom

Nitromors. We had the exact same thing in the house we've just renovated. One of our builders was removing wallpaper on the stairs wall and found gloss paint underneath. It came off OK with Nitromors. The wall has now had lining paper put on and emulsioned (it wasn't in a good enough state to just emulsion straight onto the plaster).

carefullycautious

Nitromors never heard of this but I will look into it. Thanks for replies, sounds like we have our work cut out arhhhhhhh

tbw

carefullycautious wrote: »

Nitromors never heard of this but I will look into it. Thanks for replies, sounds like we have our work cut out arhhhhhhh

Its an old established brand of paint stripper. Its very strong so be careful with it - if it disolves paint just imagine what it does to your skin ! Personally I wouldn't even consider using it on a big area like a wall - I've only used it for stripping small areas of wood or old furniture a section at a time. Paint it on with a brush, wait for it to strat bubbling and then scrape it off. I think I'd just rub the wall down well to 'key' it and then start painting over it.

never_enough

Agree with tbw, nitromors is too toxic to use on large areas, you'll gas yourself, it's foul. If you do decide you must use it, ventilation is the key & do a small bit at a time.
I have managed to paint emulsion over gloss on walls but the gloss was in good condition. It's not the best solution, but it was all I could bear to do at the time.

nickj_2

carefullycautious wrote: »

Nitromors never heard of this but I will look into it. Thanks for replies, sounds like we have our work cut out arhhhhhhh

using nitromors inside is extremely dangerous as it gives of harmful vapours especially if you are using it on large areas - you can either give it a good sand down and wash , then give it a coat of undercoat - then emulsion , or there are water based paint strippers

health and safety data here- https://www.henkel-technical-services.co.uk/tech.php?brandID=9

carefullycautious

THanks for all replies. I have looked into Nitromors and I agree that it will be far too toxic for the amount I need to remove and the enclosed space of my GF Flat.

Do you think if I rubbed it down with sandpaper this would remove the gloss? walls are uneven in kitchen so I may just decide to paper over again.

Thanks again

ormus

certainly be very wary of using nitromors. outside ok but indoors id only use it in an empty house.
sand it down as best you can, and paper over the top should suffice in most cases.

paullwill8

What are you wanting to re-paint the walls with, emulsion?

nickj_2

there's no need to totally remove the gloss
just give it a sand to give undercoat something to key onto