Any painters on here

[Tashyboy]

Young lad Tash has had 3 x bedrooms, hall and Front room plaster skimmed over the last week or so. Over the next couple of days they will be ready to have there first “ mist” coat. Had a peruse on Google and I have read anything from 1 part emulsion to 1 part water up to 1 part water 4 parts water.
Does it really matter or what would folk advise.
Cheers guys.

 

[PJ87]

Young lad Tash has had 3 x bedrooms, hall and Front room plaster skimmed over the last week or so. Over the next couple of days they will be ready to have there first “ mist” coat. Had a peruse on Google and I have read anything from 1 part emulsion to 1 part water up to 1 part water 4 parts water.
Does it really matter or what would folk advise.
Cheers guys.

3 parts paint 1 part water will do

Really just needs to coat everything and be soaked up by the plaster to help the paint give a better finish

 

[Tashyboy]

3 parts paint 1 part water will do

Really just needs to coat everything and be soaked up by the plaster to help the paint give a better finish

Cheers Paul me man

 

[PJ87]

Cheers Paul me man

Use really basic white tubs of emulsion aswell. Just want to slap it everywhere get it sealed

If you go too much water it just becomes a mess as falls off the roller lol

 

[Lord Tyrion]

The mist coat is basically sealing the surface as the current surface will be highly absorbent. Without using that you would end up applying 3 or 4 coats of the more expensive top coat to get a good finish, the pretty one you really want on show.

If the walls are really sucking the paint in, pop another layer on those bare areas. No harm in that.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

I would use contractors white emulsion from a Johnsons paint centre. 10 litres is very reasonable.

 

[PJ87]

I would use contractors white emulsion from a Johnsons paint centre. 10 litres is very reasonable.

@Tashyboy this stuff! Or Leyland trade from Screwfix

Both excellent for the job in hand

 

[jim8flog]

I would use the Mr Bean method

 

[fundy]

if its DIY painting buy the bare plaster paint from Screwfix, far easier and less hassle and gives a great finish once painted over. Have used it in 3 or 4 houses now and works really well

 

[Deleted member 29109]

if its DIY painting buy the bare plaster paint from Screwfix, far easier and less hassle and gives a great finish once painted over. Have used it in 3 or 4 houses now and works really well

This x1000

Don’t bother with mixing a mist coat with normal emulsion.

Fortress Trade Matt Brilliant White Emulsion Bare Plaster Paint 10Ltr - Screwfix

Order online at Screwfix.com. High opacity paint for use on bare plaster. Allows newly plastered walls to breathe. Re-coatable in 2-4 hours. FREE next day delivery available, free collection in 1 minute.

www.screwfix.com

 

[Tashyboy]

Very strange but I bought 10 lites of that from B and M last week.

I would use contractors white emulsion from a Johnsons paint centre. 10 litres is very reasonable.

Not gonna lie, it’s been a mare. A guy I know was recommended to do the plastering. He was adamant he could do it. He is in his 70’s long covid and had a stroke during COVID. I know him through the RBL and thought it would help him. It didn’t, my son had a pal round to price him up for a media wall. said pal said “ you cannot paint those walls”. Son had to pull the plasterer off the job. There was no edging strips put in place. No tape over cracked plaster. It was all over the place.I could have cried. It didn’t go down well with him, his wife was in tears when she called round. She told she me didn’t want to do the job, she said it was too much. He was adamant he could do it.. She knew after the first day they would struggle. I am adamant we won’t fall out over it but she is devastated. Always being the one to look on the positive side of things, I told her “ it’s not the end of the world and it happened to a friend, what would you have done if it had been a customer you never knew”. She then mentioned it was the first plastering job he had done since COVID. He is not doing it anymore.
So we are nearly two weeks behind schedule, fortunately I dropped on with another plasterer who is fantastic but we have had to knock back, painting, radiators being fitted, carpets put back. Some days you could flippin scream.

Oh and I flippin hate painting.Missis T loves it.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Johnsons often have larger than 10 ltr tubs of white emulsion stacked up on the floor. I use it straight out the tub on fresh plaster. Works fine, and 2 coats gives a good base for the top coats.
It's quite reasonable too.

 

[patricks148]

Im quite good with oil and acrylic, not a great water color exponent.

 

[Oddsocks]

Young lad Tash has had 3 x bedrooms, hall and Front room plaster skimmed over the last week or so. Over the next couple of days they will be ready to have there first “ mist” coat. Had a peruse on Google and I have read anything from 1 part emulsion to 1 part water up to 1 part water 4 parts water.
Does it really matter or what would folk advise.
Cheers guys.

We had the complete house renovated including a complete re plaster just out of covid. At the time I was working for a national builders merchant and was advised the most cost was a thing of the past and that a latex based emulsion is now a far better option as paint “ tech “ has moved on.

We went with the leyland based option as Selco offered the best deal on 20l tubs.

FYI it wasn’t Selco I was working for, but they were the most competitive.

 

[Tashyboy]

Many thanks for the advice re the paint mist, it’s had two coats of mist and two of emulsion and looks fantastic.

But why oh why do some folk paint skirting boards with the carpets down

 

[PJ87]

Many thanks for the advice re the paint mist, it’s had two coats of mist and two of emulsion and looks fantastic.

But why oh why do some folk paint skirting boards with the carpets down

My carpet company (when we had it fitted) said to paint after because they will chip the paint fitting the carpet lol

 

[fundy]

My carpet company (when we had it fitted) said to paint after because they will chip the paint fitting the carpet lol

tell them youre getting a proper carpet fitter in and theyve just lost the job then lol

 

[Mudball]

I have got an MDF window bench.. wanting to make it look like wood.. so wanting to go for Ebony coloured. I have primed the MDF.

What next? Just get some stain or is it furniture paint, wax , varnish…. My brain is spinning ..