Painting after plastering??

dave82_2

What ever you do please do not paint PVA on the walls first!!

We have just painted our first room in the house we are renovating. We left it a couple of months before painting as it was cold and wet weather and the whole house had been done so it took ages to dry out. We had a mix of areas some skim only and some undercoat then skim.

We used Dulux trade supermatt thined to 3 parts paint 1 part water as per the Dulux instruction and the wash coat went on really well. It has given us a fantastic finish now the top coat is on as well.

The only areas we had any problem were where the plasterer has splashed PVA on the wall about the size of a 2 pence piece! I can't imagin what a nightmare it would be if the whole wall was coated in PVA!!!!

keystone

dave82 wrote: »

I can't imagin what a nightmare it would be if the whole wall was coated in PVA!!!!

You don't want to either!

Cheers

Yorkie1

Following on from this "use / do not use PVA", I have some cracks in walls which will need to be polyfilla'd / filled before I redecorate. A builder recommended that I painted the cracks with PVA before applying the filler, so as to aid bonding of the filler to the crack.

Is this going to cause problems when I then paint over the crack? I anticipate that, even with the best will in the world, some of the PVA will end up on the wall either side of the crack.

nickj_2

Mummy_Jo wrote: »

I am hoping then that 5 years post plaster that we have been lucky as we haven't had any paint peeling?

you will find that you may have problems when you redecorate , i did a job for one of my customers who unbeknownst to me had stripped the original paint off back to bare plaster , pva-ed walls and then repainted , when i painted them again a few years later she called me back 3 months later as the paint had split , i got a srcaper out + it was like striiping wet wallpaper , the moisture from my paint had lifted all previous coats away from the wall

as a painter i do not know why or where this confusion over sealing new plaster with pva comes from , all paint tins have instructions on them and none appear to mention pva

vasseur

I waited 3 weeks after having my kitchen plastered and went over it with white emulsion bought from Aldi (10 litres for about a fiver ) . It didn't need watering down as it was thinner than branded emulsion anyway. Did the job perfectly and 3 years on the paint I went over it with still looks good as new.

My plasterer also said avoid PVA.

bigg2001

ok ..... so to summarise after all the replies, I have bought the cheap B&Q value paint to do my mist coats with and Dulux Matt for the final coat ( and am avoiding PVA glue!!)

However, I now have another question - can I wallpaper one of the walls after I mist coat it??

avantra

bigg2001 wrote: »

ok ..... so to summarise after all the replies, I have bought the cheap B&Q value paint to do my mist coats with and Dulux Matt for the final coat ( and am avoiding PVA glue!!)

However, I now have another question - can I wallpaper one of the walls after I mist coat it??

Yes, should't be a problem.
The wallpaper glue will hold on cheap emulsion for years from my experience.

keystone

bigg2001 wrote: »

However, I now have another question - can I wallpaper one of the walls after I mist coat it??

Of course just use wallpaper paste not PVA to hang it.

Cheers

bigg2001

I wouldn't dream of it!!;)

birkee

27col wrote: »

The Romans used to paint their frescos on to wet plaster. I painted my freshly skimmed ceiling a couple of days after it had been done. It's been up 5 years and shows no sign of any problem at all.

Didn't know they had emulsion paint?
Come to that, I didn't know they had B & Q either.