Paint on bathroom windowsill not drying!

LlamaKarma

Last Sunday we painted a bathroom windowsill with Crown Multisurface Primer & undercoat. It is the second time we have tried it. The windowsill was previously woodstained. This time we used paint stripper to take off the majority of the woodstain, allowed this to dry, then sanded with an electric sander, then used white spirit. We used a thin coat of the primer.

But it still won't dry! We've also painted a dado rail which previously had the woodstain on and that was absolutely fine.

It may be a little humid in the bathroom, but not too bad since it's our second bathroom and so doesn't get used for showers every day.

Does anyone know how we can get this windowsill painted?

Thank you!!

keystone

Your problem lies either with the white spirit stopping the paint curing which I suspect or you have an incompatibility beween two different makes of paint. Is the primer you used waterbased or solvent based?

Did you wash the woodwork with water after having used the stripper?

Methinks you need to clean it all off and start again. Once you have sanded use a tack cloth and vac to remove the dust rather than white spirit.

Cheers

LlamaKarma

Thanks for your advice, sounds like it was the white spirit what done it then. Third time lucky!

savemoney

Could it be bathroom sometimes get high humidity. That paint may be water based