Decorating a whole House!!!!

calleyw

Yes really . I had a family member and there friend start some work in my house.

They have plastered every room apart from my bedroom so I am now left with bare coving and plaster walls. I knew I would have to decorating as they would not.

I have a week off of work and have decided to tackle at least one room. I am starting in the living room. The walls need to be sanded and holes filled. I get that. I have just tried an orbital sander and no good as I have broken the bits on for the dust extraction and it does not seem to doing much a job. Which could be down to me being cacked handed :rotfl:

Once the sanding has been done then I will put a on a wash coat then put on proper paint afterwards. I am doing this on my own and I am very cack handed. I am being very optimistic that I can get most of done this week. I have no idea of the room size. It is only just 10am on the first day and I am hacked off already :rotfl:

Things do not bode well for this week!!!

And please don't tell me to get someone in as I can't afford it and I don't have any friends male/female who can help. So I am going to have struggle on.

The upside to getting it done means I have my living room back. If I don't get it down I have stuff all over the place in the kitchen and have to retreat back to my bedroom. Not very good for me mentally!!!

Any short cuts or hints and tips to help me.

Thanks in advance.

Yours

Calley

macman

You should never need to power sand newly plastered walls. If you do, then the plastering is not up to scratch. And if it isn't, you never get them smooth by sanding, you'll just choke on the dust you generate. All you should need to do is fill any blemishes and the run those down when dry by hand.
Furthermore, you cannot decorate straight onto fresh plaster-it will need up to 3 weeks to dry out properly.
A pic of the plaster would help.

Leif

Hand sand. A power sander is too harsh. Fresh skim plaster needs no more than a week to dry out, maybe less in warm weather with windows open. For filler, use a powdered one, such as Easi-fill, much easier to sand than t'others. You can do a sort of skim with the filler. Get a wide blade scraper, load it with filler, then draw if ove the wall, unload it, then draw it across to remove excess, leaving pock marks filled. Then all it will need is a light sand.

One word of caution. Get a can to contain paint (pour some from the paint tin into the can), but don't put it down next to a trestle. I stepped off the trestle, onto the can. It went everywhere.

No need to wash the roller and brush when charged with emulsion paint. You can store each overnight in a plastic bag, with the air squeazed out. I like microfibre roller sleeves, they make it easier to get a perfect finish. Avoid cheap roller sleeves. A Harris sleeve I used left hairs all over a wall. I had to sand it down and repaint. Same goes for brushes, cheap ones leave hairs, Purdy are good, Hamilton too I think.

It is a shame you don't have a friend or family member who can give you a quick tutorial on painting.

calleyw

the plaster is at least a couple of months old.

i have been sanding by hand and filling. But they did a rubbish job on the corners which has lots of holes the need to be filled.

I hope by end of tomorrow to get the first wash the walls I have sanded. but we shall see :rotfl:

Yours

Calley

wallbash

Although you are posting ...... Decorating a whole House!!!!

There use to be a very long thread on this site about renovating homes. This would put your efforts in perspective.

You post about bare plaster , some of us took months before we had any plaster.

My first house lost all its plaster / ceilings / floors / electrics/ plumbing /stairs / windows/and roof ...... and I posted the photo's to prove it.

So don't ever get to worried , all things come right given enough time.

wallbash

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/1186031

Check out #1959

This ( that ) was a great thread

ValHaller

If you have a week and most of the rooms empty, I suggest you don't try to decorate a room. Do all the ceilings instead.

• This gives you a continuous run with one type of paint
• you can keep the rollers in a plastic bag overnight
• less cleaning at the end of a session
• only 1 tin of left over paint

After you have done that, you can put everything back in place in each room and you only need to shift stuff to the centre and sheet over to finish that room.