My painting pet peeve....

pinkteapot

That moment when you've only done the first coat and all it's done is made a complete mess; patchy with the old colour showing through. And you step back and think "Why didn't I just leave it?".

Our kitchen came with two blue walls and two cream (someone spent the 90s watching home improvement shows). We're painting the room out white before using our colour. The blue walls now look like a bad impressionist painting of a cloudy sky.

I've seen that Wickes ad recently for their white emulsion that 8/10 decorators supposedly prefer. The guy rollers over a dark red wall with it and it whites it out perfectly. I think the advert lies.

misgrace

Cant see Wickes paint covering anything in 3 coats let alone 1 lol

Any dark colour takes between 2-4 coats depends on the quality of the paint.
I always blot out dark colours first using Dulux or Gliddens who are part of Dulux, I give it 2 coats first of white then sometimes I might give it a 3rd depends on how I feel lol then 2 good coats of the actual colour (if its a light colour)

pinkteapot

Amazingly, our two blue walls are only a light pastel blue. But it's a complete sod to cover - have previously done another room that had it.

Think we'll need two coats of white on the cream walls and three on the blue walls. That should cover it well enough anyway - doesn't have to be perfect as the colour we're doing afterwards is a shade or two darker than the existing colours.

ormus

almost any paint will require 3 coats to do that sort of job.
it helps if you can paint a grey coat on first. but that costs more money.

pinkteapot

ormus wrote: »

almost any paint will require 3 coats to do that sort of job.
it helps if you can paint a grey coat on first. but that costs more money.

Not heard that before - why is grey better than white?

2 coats in, cream looks plenty well enough covered to leave now until we do the coloured paint. The blue walls need a third.

New cooker hood turning up this afternoon so get to have fun with that later.