Paint Q Help please

andrew-b

definitely is related to sunlight.. i painted a windowsill (south facing window) with Dulux Pure Brilliant White Satinwood (oil-based)..stood a small mantel clock on it. Moved the clock and there's a nice yellow square exactly the shape of the clock base. Since removing the clock the yellow square has mysteriously vanished!

shegar

keystone wrote: »

There are lots of acrylic (waterbased) gloss paints around. Dulux have done 'em for a long time but its a difficult paint to master. Crown Solo is lovely paint - self undercoating too. Yes give it a try.

Cheers

Yes keystone Id definately second your post about crown solo. Lovely paint .Im usually a dulex person but even dulux cant beat crown solo gloss.

Basil1234

hhmm so everyone is saying sunlight so the chaps got to get a skylight lol nice and cheap.
Hmm i used to have night storage heaters in a flat used to yellow the wallpaper next to it and all our woodwork as well the solution i found to curing the problem was it was a dry heat so a carefully placed small ceramic bowl of water near the heaters and the water atomised into the air over night when they where on this helped 2 ways stopped all the yellow also with dry heat up the nose as have bad sysnesis. but you have to make sure these bowls are kept filled up once you have redecorated i found this to be the best soloution for me at the time.
the only other thing i have found that causes yellowing badly is smoking at my current house downstairs just had to redecorate. never mind maybe ill quit in the new year

same idea as these http://www.betterware.co.uk/productdetails.aspx?pid=057828&cid=129&language=en-GB

nickj_2

even if you are using solo - no undercoating paint - it's always best to give it a coat - when u come to paint it again it can all flake off as it doesn't really key to the surface - if a job's worth doing - do it right , even if it takes a few minutes longer

keystone

nickj wrote: »

even if you are using solo - no undercoating paint - it's always best to give it a coat - when u come to paint it again it can all flake off as it doesn't really key to the surface - if a job's worth doing - do it right , even if it takes a few minutes longer

Mmm - that might just point to poor prep rather than a failure of the applied paint. Anyone who just undercoats or glosses straight over old gloss paint without rubbing the original down first wants his bumps feeling. But people do it and then blame the paint when it fails. With good prep first, rub down, clean, tack cloth all should be well.

Cheers

shown73

Used to have a similar problem, stopped smoking, problem gone...