HowlingGale
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Any external painting experts around?
Got a bare concrete block wall in the garden that we need to paint. Getting someone in to do it is proving difficult as they're all busy so thinking of doing it ourselves.
Read online that it would need a mist coat. It also needs some fungicide at the bottom and we also need to remove some efflorescence with a suitable 'remover'. We're not sure if it will need a special undercoat or whatever.
What I can't find online is what order do things in.
My thoughts on the order are:
1. Efflorescence remover
2. Power wash walls and remove moss and 'live' stuff
3. Mist coat as apparently bare block is very thirsty
4. Undercoat with something
5. A couple of coats of sandtex or whatever
Am I miles off the mark with this?
Don't want to have to do it again next year.
Got a bare concrete block wall in the garden that we need to paint. Getting someone in to do it is proving difficult as they're all busy so thinking of doing it ourselves.
Read online that it would need a mist coat. It also needs some fungicide at the bottom and we also need to remove some efflorescence with a suitable 'remover'. We're not sure if it will need a special undercoat or whatever.
What I can't find online is what order do things in.
My thoughts on the order are:
1. Efflorescence remover
2. Power wash walls and remove moss and 'live' stuff
3. Mist coat as apparently bare block is very thirsty
4. Undercoat with something
5. A couple of coats of sandtex or whatever
Am I miles off the mark with this?
Don't want to have to do it again next year.