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Painting Problems

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  • 12-01-2009 3:14pm
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    shakespeare
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    Need some help...im a DIY novice at best.

    moved into a house. bedroom had one wall painted peach. hated it. gave it a coat of white paint as it was too dark to just paint over and it would have ended up a different shade to the rest of the room which was cream or whatever.

    but the peach paint started to peel off with the roller. so i stopped painting it white and scrapped off the peach paint with a scraper(more like chipped it off...took ages!). the wall is solid...not plasterboard...and a bit dusty i guess would be the way to describe it but solid.

    i was wondering...if i just paint over it again with white...and then with the colour i actually want the wall to be (yellow) will it just start peeling again?
    do i need to do something to the wall first???

    any help at all would be much appreciated.


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    ART6
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    It sounds like you need to first apply a plaster sealer -- available from all DIY stores. Some people simply use a diluted emulsion paint as a sealer, but personally I have only found that effective on good plaster.


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    Juwwi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,250 ✭✭✭Juwwi


    hi lm a painter,what u need to get is a stain block sealer,it sounds like there could of been damp or a leak in that wall at sometime.
    if u get a stain block sealer and paint the wholewall then put two coats of emulsiononit will be fine.


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    shakespeare
    Closed Accounts Posts: 113 ✭✭shakespeare


    thanks a million lads.


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    Hetack
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭Hetack


    robbie1977 wrote: »
    hi lm a painter,what u need to get is a stain block sealer,it sounds like there could of been damp or a leak in that wall at sometime.
    if u get a stain block sealer and paint the wholewall then put two coats of emulsiononit will be fine.

    Yes as robbie 1977 said. I recommend "Bins Primer Sealer" if you can get your hands on it.


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