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Painting over cigarette smoke?

  • 22-10-2010 7:35am
    #1
    kodak
    Registered Users Posts: 370 ✭✭


    Hi,

    How does one prepare the walls that have been subjected to many years of cigarette smoke? Walls are a slight shade of yellow (from white)

    Thanks


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  • #2
    TheUsual
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    I'm not a painter but I am a smoker. ;)
    Use a blowtorch to char the paint and strip the paint off with a scraper.

    Then paint the wall or put the paper on. I'wouldn't try and try and paint over it, you will have bubbles and stains later on.


  • #3
    soundsham
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,848 ✭✭✭soundsham


    wash down with sugar soap,and you should be good to go
    if staining is very bad include 1 coat of alcohol based bin primer after washing ,
    then 2 coats of emulsion


  • #4
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭uch


    soundsham wrote: »
    wash down with sugar soap,and you should be good to go
    if staining is very bad include 1 coat of alcohol based bin primer after washing ,
    then 2 coats of emulsion


    +1

    21/25



  • #5
    CarrickMcJoe
    Registered Users Posts: 3,379 ✭✭✭CarrickMcJoe


    It will cost a small fortune to coat the walls and ceiling with BIN primer (its €68 per gal), best to wash down with sugar soap and coat the whole room with white undercoat, then apply your emulsion.


  • #6
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    I'd have said just sugar soap, with hot water for application and cold water rinse down. Use the powder not the liquid.
    No need for BIN or u/c...it's only nicotine/tar which will be 99% washed off. Apply emulsion as normal.


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  • #7
    soundsham
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,848 ✭✭✭soundsham


    CarrickMcJoe wrote: »
    It will cost a small fortune to coat the walls and ceiling with BIN primer (its €68 per gal), best to wash down with sugar soap and coat the whole room with white undercoat, then apply your emulsion.

    €54 for alcohol based one
    €33 for spirit based one (johnstones northpoint cork)which i have not used but have been told its spot on by a trusted mate


  • #8
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    soundsham wrote: »
    €54 for alcohol based one
    €33 for spirit based one (johnstones northpoint cork)which i have not used but have been told its spot on by a trusted mate

    Cover Stain? Brilliant product. I love it for priming hardwood or if you have a room of joinery to prime, u/c and oil finish in a day. I'd prefer it over BIN as well for damp stains... no need for the multiple coats of emulsion to cover the stain blocked area.
    Fleetwood do an quick drying oil primer too, pro-block I think it's called..

    BIN has it's place (varnished wood, powder coat, other such difficult surfaces) but you can't use it outside and that 54 quid is for a US gallon (3.54lt)...considering it's about $30 for it in the 'states we get owned on that price.


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