Dry Wall Painting

[Thomarse]

Hi,

I've got my partition wall up, drywall plasterboard. how should i "treat" this before painting it, I'm not getting it plastered as I have jointed it with compund.

Am I right in thinking I should use some PVA mixed with water to seal it. I may be using a textured finish on the other side of the wall before painting, so is PVA the job for that too?

Tom

[The Natural Philosopher]

No treatment at all required really.

The first coat of anything that goes on will soak in something horrid. So you either use thinned PVA, or crap trade emulsion or indeed a thinned coat of emulsion to allow for that.

I tend to the latter, as at least the sealer is approximateley the same color :-)