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Black damp proofing paint for round the bottom of house brickwork.
Sunlight is pretty good for heating the tin up... especially if you use a bit of the black paint on the tin. Problem is, if the wall is cold, it sticks rather than paints, and the brush ends up like a spatula. Heating it up on a naked flame can be fun... bit too extreme for me. Stay slightly drunk until Spring, then I'd do it in the warm, with the birds singing.
Sunlight is pretty good for heating the tin up... especially if you use a bit of the black paint on the tin. Problem is, if the wall is cold, it sticks rather than paints, and the brush ends up like a spatula. Heating it up on a naked flame can be fun... bit too extreme for me. Stay slightly drunk until Spring, then I'd do it in the warm, with the birds singing.
pretty true.
generally you shouldnt be applying paint when the temps are below 4 degrees or so.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! DONT DO ANYTHING! Get rid of the black paint and LEAVE alone. The wall needs to breathe.. All that paint is doing is causing problems... Get it off, DO NOT RE PAINT... save yourself the trouble, and look at the real problems that have caused whatever was supposedly causing the problem that made someone do it in the first place. Lower ground levels, take gypsum off the inside walls , but let solid wallls breathe...!
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