Paint wont dry!

I decided to paint an internal door yesterday using very old satinwood paint. it has a really thick skin on it so got this off and gave paint a stir. It seemed to go on ok but over 24 hours later and its still tacky! I even put heating on for a couple of hours last night. Will it dry or is it due to using old paint and it will never dry properly?

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  • ormus
    ormus Posts: 42,714 Forumite
    if its very old paint it may have gone off.
    itll dry eventually but you really need some decent heat in the room to cure it faster.
    you should never paint below a certain temp.
    i think its about 4 degrees. from memory.
    Get some gorm.
  • keystone
    keystone Posts: 10,916 Forumite
    Strip it off. Throw the old stuff away. Open a new tin. Start again.

    Cheers
    The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits. - Einstein
  • misgrace
    misgrace Posts: 1,486 Forumite
    I decided to paint an internal door yesterday using very old satinwood paint. it has a really thick skin on it so got this off and gave paint a stir. It seemed to go on ok but over 24 hours later and its still tacky! I even put heating on for a couple of hours last night. Will it dry or is it due to using old paint and it will never dry properly?

    lol its not just old paint this happens, I used a brand new tin of gliddens undercoat a few weeks back when the weather was warmer, was undercoating hsl woodwork, went in the next day to gloss and still quite tacky, had to leave till the following day, yet the gloss dried in the usual 8 years...weird!!!
  • macman
    macman Posts: 53,129 Forumite
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    misgrace wrote: »
    lol its not just old paint this happens, I used a brand new tin of gliddens undercoat a few weeks back when the weather was warmer, was undercoating hsl woodwork, went in the next day to gloss and still quite tacky, had to leave till the following day, yet the gloss dried in the usual 8 years...weird!!!

    Shurely shome mishstake here?
    No free lunch, and no free laptop ;)
  • jcb208
    jcb208 Posts: 773 Forumite
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    Gliddens is made by dulux , its the same with all there 2010 complient oil paint takes for ever to dry, not unusual to take 24 hrs to dry even when thinned .I now use crown the oil based undercoat is touch dry in 1 Hr
  • Leif
    Leif Posts: 3,727 Forumite
    macman wrote: »
    Shurely shome mishstake here?

    Perhaps, just perhaps, it was hyperbole for comic effect? Surely not!
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  • Leif
    Leif Posts: 3,727 Forumite
    it has a really thick skin on it so got this off and gave paint a stir.

    Perhaps like porridge and custard, the goodness is in the skin?
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