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Tried painting the house and totally ruined the walls!

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  • phill99
    phill99 Posts: 9,093 Forumite
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    Try a longer pile roller which will get into the dents etc.
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  • Southend1
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    Try a smaller roller with deeper pile on the patchy bits, it will get into uneven areas of wall where the larger roller skims over
  • vansboy
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    Are you doing a big area in the 'swipes' with each roll? Smaller areas, about 1mt square is more than enough. It may be drying quikly, wihout enough of the paint being spread, during the last few days of warm weather.

    VB
  • trocter
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    Each time I dip the roller in paint I'm rolling from bottom to top an area around 2 feet wide. The house has low ceilings so I'm probably covering close to 1m square.

    I'll get a long pile sleeve and give it a go.

    Any other suggestions?
  • MexDex
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    Paint over the patches with a paintbrush.

    I did the front of my shop at the beginning of last summer, 2 stories high, with a paint brush and a paint pot.

    I put it on thick and it's turned out fantastic if I do say so myself.

    Used a light creamy kind of colour.

    Took me about a day to do.
  • pinkteapot
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    edited 9 July 2014 at 1:57PM
    Are you putting the paint on thickly enough? Do make sure your roller is fairly well-loaded. It's just as easy to apply paint too thinly as too thickly.

    It'll come together with the right number of coats. Agree with the suggestion of a brush on the dents if your roller just won't get into them. All paint looks patchy after one coat, and if it's a cheaper paint it may well need three coats rather than two.

    Are you planning on doing a different, final colour over the top? If so, you don't need a pure white finish. You can cover an old colour with a couple of coats of white and then start on the final colour even if the white still looks patchy.
  • Crinkmeister
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    Nowhere do I see that you washed off the sugar soap with clean water....
  • Leon_W
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    Was it properly stirred ? And I mean properly !
  • davenport151
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    It sounds like the wall itself was not in a condition ready to be painted if it has dents or is uneven. What did the paint that was underneath look like, was that even?
    I am guessing it maybe needed /needs some filler skimmed over the 'dents' to level things out before another coat. Otherwise you may still have an uneven finish after another coat. Possibly its the choice of colour that shows up the uneveness.
    Possibly someone with more knowledge than myself may have another solution.
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  • arbrighton
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    phill99 wrote: »
    Try a longer pile roller which will get into the dents etc.


    This is good advice- we have horrifically uneven plaster and the longer pile for 'rough' walls works better. Have to admit we buy value rollers and dispose of them after each job as washing them is such a pain and we don't really want to put that into our septic tank. We always buy decent paint though- usually dulux. And at least 2 coats. More if it's a dark colour, or if it's been stripped back to plaster/ new plaster, we use watered down emulsion first. Not really sure why you sanded your walls- this isn't necessary for emulsion, only for woodwork with gloss/ satin paint
    vansboy wrote: »
    Are you doing a big area in the 'swipes' with each roll? Smaller areas, about 1mt square is more than enough. It may be drying quikly, wihout enough of the paint being spread, during the last few days of warm weather.

    VB
    trocter wrote: »
    Each time I dip the roller in paint I'm rolling from bottom to top an area around 2 feet wide. The house has low ceilings so I'm probably covering close to 1m square.

    I'll get a long pile sleeve and give it a go.

    Any other suggestions?

    Sounds like you are spreading it too thinly especially if it is cheaper paint. I'd aim to get the paint from one roller onto about half a wall height on no more than about a foot width. And I've not had a patchy finish yet
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