Help needed desperately

TopTen


Joined: 15/04/2009
Posts: 1246

Message Posted:
09/03/2010 11:03

Can anybody offer up some new excuse to save me from having to paint inside my home,have tried the backache headache what have you, she bought paracetamol. So please help I desperate.(not Dan, remember Yosser," Boys from the Blackstuff")

Navek



Joined: 01/06/2008
Posts: 2656

Message Posted:
09/03/2010 11:21

There might still be dampness in the walls,

then paint would just peel off after a while.

Leave it till it gets warmer.

Then it'll be too hot to paint ))

Navek

TopTen


Joined: 15/04/2009
Posts: 1246

Message Posted:
09/03/2010 11:47

Brilliant Navek

greylag


Joined: 08/04/2009
Posts: 1110

Message Posted:
09/03/2010 11:49

Get someone in to do it,

Grey.

HildySmith


Joined: 02/07/2009
Posts: 1708

Message Posted:
09/03/2010 12:11

You can:

- scrape the old stuff off

- wash the affected area with cleaner/sugar soap.

- rinse off any soap/residue with clean water

- let it dry

- rub it lightly with sandpaper

- paint area with damp proof paint (if not available use gloss paint) let it dry

- rub down lightly to buff surface

- then emultion over the affected area

then look at the nice smile you get from her indoors!!!!

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
09/03/2010 13:32

Top Ten,

You lazy man just get on with it or we will all talk about the weather again. Plus I will buy Liz a whip to make sure you finish!



Chris

p.s. Hubby got the same problem

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
09/03/2010 15:18

it takes at least 2 months for a damp wall to dry out enough for re-painting...

any sooner and you are just wasting your time and sealing in the damp.. which will rise further up the wall.