Best way to cover/disguise painted-over adhesive squiggles on walls?
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Comments (3)What is "sheating". I've never encountered that term before. As far as I am concerned there is no satisfactory one-coat paint. I always prepare, prime, sand, tack off, and expect to paint at least two top coats, with a light sanding in between. Painting takes trouble to make it look right and wear really well. Since I do all my own painting, I just take my time and make it right. I use Soygel stripper. Slow, but not foul to be around. Beware of old paint used on trim and cabs intalled before 1970. It often contains lead which makes it hazardous to sand or scrape or remove using a heating plate or heat gun, particularly if you have children in the house. You can have it tested. The cheap test kits sold at hardware stores may be inaccurate. If you do have lead, read up on how to work with it in a reduced-hazard manner. It takes some extra trouble to do it without contaminating your whole interior, but it can be done. Often there are DIY lead-paint removal workshops you can attend to get the program. Dispopsal of the strippings or scrapings may be an issue in some areas. Careless removal of lead paint can lead to the need to remediate the entire house. Sanding or scraping can spread lead dust around and using a heated aremoval appliance can vaporize the lead into the air you're breathing HTH L. If you're doing a lot of work with lead paint on a project it might be wise to get your blood tested; the test that's needed is a serum lead titer. Since we've been workring on our pre-Civil War house on and off for more than twenty years, we always ask for one whenever blood is drawn for another purpose. Ours have always been OK, although our level of exposure is high. We have no young children in the house, so it's only our own (and our pets) health to be concerned about. This post was edited by liriodendron on Sat, Oct 19, 13 at 22:37...See MoreToning down my WAY too yellow-orange walls...
Comments (19)lazygardens, Highway Stripe Orange is how my builder described the color too! He tried to make me feel better by claiming it was growing on him but finally admitted it was pretty bad. Scarlett, we used Ivoire for the ceiling and it's lovely. I took lazygardens' advice and painted some swatches on large white sheets of poster board and checked them at different times of the day. I ultimately decided to go with SW Blonde, which coincidentally is the color my painter has in his own house. He said he'd painted it several times in spec homes and liked it so when he repainted his house, he used it. That made me feel quite a bit better. Anyway, he repainted my walls this weekend and hardly charged me much for the change. It is SO much better. I was worried it might be too neutral, but it still has a golden tone in most light. I don't have fixtures in yet, but as I tend to prefer warmer light bulbs, I imagine the lights will only enhance the golden tones which is what I want. I'm very happy with it. If anyone else is going for that South of France yellowy gold color, I recommend trying it. I almost went with SW Restrained Gold which is one shade darker on the same paint strip, but I'm glad I went with my first instinct. It's perfect. Oh, and for those who asked, the finish was and is eggshell. No problem at all covering the orange color with the new golden color. I'd say there was about four days between paint and repaint....See Morehelp! how do i paint over polyurethaned knotty pine ?
Comments (51)Hello, we have a small sunroom ( western side of the house) has knotty pine wood on the walls, ceiling and up into the cut out Skylight areas. The area up in the sky light reflected drip like black water marks on it so we decided to paint the ceiling (had the skylights replaced three months ago and we know the Knotty Pine is in fine shape otherwise). We decided to paint the ceiling, including up in the recessed sky light areas. started with the Bin primer, put two coats, then started to see an Amber-colored film coming through. Unfortunately the painter then added two coats of a latex paint. The amber color is still coming through. I'm wondering if it's old sap that which from the heat of the sun coming through the skylights. Suggestions on how I tackle this project at this point considering we have two layers of den and two layers of latex paint and the amber color is coming through just like we simply did a white wash....See More22 splotches of paint on the wall.Now what? Prime or paint over?
Comments (18)I just painted a buttermilk yellow over a dark grey wall (don't ask) and for the first two walls I thought I should prime, but I still needed three coats of the yellow to cover (I paint mostly with a brush, it's only two coats with a roller). Then on the last wall I ran out of primer so used leftover beige paint... and it covered way better than the primer. I'm no expert, but my conclusion is that primer doesn't cover as well as paint. It seems to me that primer is meant to promote adhesion, not to colour things. In your situation the question is evenness, not coverage per se, so I could go over your splotches with the closest thing you have to the original wall colour. Then paint your final colour, probably two coats will do. KarinL...See MoreAMS
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