De-gothing a bedroom

[Tim Downie]

Whats the best way of removing or covering dark purple gloss paint on the woodwork (back to gloss white)?

It's not a big room so I suppose I should consider simply replacing it all but I'd rather not.

Tim

[Frank Erskine]

Angle grinder.

[Bob Minchin]

Nitromors?

Bob

[Nick Leverton]

Combined with the requisite exorcism, that could be quite spectacular.

Nick

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Clean with sugar soap, etc, then sand down to provide a key, undercoat, then gloss. Same as any other paint job. But might be better to use two coats of undercoat.

[Andy Dingley]

Stick a cog on it?

It seems to work for turning aging goths into steampunks!

[Owain]

Who gothed it in the first place?

Iwaub

[The Natural Philosopher]

blowtorch or paint stripper.

[ARWadsworth]

Could be worse. Remember the tossers that glossed the walls at my mates house with black gloss?

[mike]

You sure it's dark purple? Maybe it won't look so bad when you put the light bulbs back in.

[NT]

Just paint over it, going from dark to white isnt a problem. Sometimes it needs an extra coat.

NT

[Owain]

Oh yes.

I had a bedroom once where the previous occupant had used rubberised paint on the ceiling.

At first I thought it was artex, the finish was so bad.

It peeled off in long stretchy strips.

Owain

[jgharston]

*only* on the ceiling? what on earth were they doing in there???

JGH

[Owain]

If it had been the top floor of Murray I'd have suggested a cheapo attempt at waterproofing the ceiling.

Owain

[Andy Champ]

Only 2?

I'd keep undercoating until the purple is invisible.

Andy

[Frank Erskine]

If you keep undercoating you're likely to end up (if ever) with a "washed-out" mess, losing all detail on mouldings etc.

You'd do much better if you can actually remove as much as possible of the offending paint.

[Frank Erskine]

Unless you use low-energy bulbs...

[Mike P the 1st]

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Mike P the 1st

[Lobster]

Wouldn't it have just been something like this stuff:

've seen ceilings in the past with similar symptoms caused by this sort of paint

David

[Owain]

It probably predated that sort of product, and it certainly wasn't a good-as-new finish.

I suspect it fell off the back of a boatyard somewhere - the Hazard Orange walls and neighbour's Battleship Grey kitchen reinforce the possibility of a non-domestic palette.

Owain