Is it me or the paint?

chappers

why are you painting your walls with undercoat. You should be using emulsion, undercoat is for the woodwork.
Just paint over the old colour with the new coloured emulsion you want, may take 2 or 3 coats if the colour is strong underneath

FreeBear

Yazmina wrote: »

Btw, what's the best way to get paint off your hands?

Best thing is not to get paint on your hands in the first place - Get yourself a box of nitrile or vinyl gloves and use them while painting.

Silvertabby

“ Btw, what's the best way to get paint off your hands?
Originally posted by Yazmina ”

Best thing is not to get paint on your hands in the first place - Get yourself a box of nitrile or vinyl gloves and use them while painting. Posted by FreeBear

Ditto - or a pack of decorators wipes .

Just a thought, but the undercoat for a wall is water-based and so should just wash off - please tell me you haven't been using wood undercoat on your walls?

Clairabella

Yazmina wrote: »

Btw, what's the best way to get paint off your hands? I've been rubbing away with vegetable oil, but no joy. Cheers.

I use a pan scrub. :eek:

[Deleted User]

A cheesegrater usually does the trick.

Biggles

Yazmina wrote: »

Ok so I measured the walls and I've still only got around 26sqm painted out of a potential 42sqm. Still seems a bit short.

That's about normal. First rule of painting is that you always need more than you thought. That makes it look cheaper when we buy it.

Yazmina

chappers wrote: »

why are you painting your walls with undercoat. You should be using emulsion, undercoat is for the woodwork.
Just paint over the old colour with the new coloured emulsion you want, may take 2 or 3 coats if the colour is strong underneath

Silvertabby wrote: »

Ditto - or a pack of decorators wipes .

Just a thought, but the undercoat for a wall is water-based and so should just wash off - please tell me you haven't been using wood undercoat on your walls?

We started with an undercoat because we're painting a light colour over a strong one. I'm not sure that my silver grey will ever look right if it's sitting on a base of bright pink. It says nothing about wood on the tin.

TheCyclingProgrammer

What exactly have you bought?

Undercoat is normally either water or solvent based and used before applying a top coat on wood.

If you wanted to cover over a strong colour I’d have used an obliterating coat with a good trade matt emulsion like Dulux Supermatt first.

Yazmina

Dulux trade undercoat
Brilliant white
Excellent opacity.

EachPenny

Yazmina wrote: »

Dulux trade undercoat
Brilliant white
Excellent opacity.

If it says "Dulux trade undercoat" on the tin and covers up to 17m2 per litre then it looks like you are using solvent based wood and metal undercoat.

You need to use a water-based emulsion, which might be tricky if you have got fresh oil based undercoat on the walls