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
De-gothing a bedroom
Sep 06, 2011
37 Replies
Angle grinder.
Nitromors?
Bob
Combined with the requisite exorcism, that could be quite spectacular.
Nick
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.
Stick a cog on it?
It seems to work for turning aging goths into steampunks!
Who gothed it in the first place?
Iwaub
blowtorch or paint stripper.
Could be worse. Remember the tossers that glossed the walls at my mates house with black gloss?
You sure it's dark purple? Maybe it won't look so bad when you put the light bulbs back in.
Just paint over it, going from dark to white isnt a problem. Sometimes it needs an extra coat.
NT
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
*only* on the ceiling? what on earth were they doing in there???
JGH
If it had been the top floor of Murray I'd have suggested a cheapo attempt at waterproofing the ceiling.
Owain
Only 2?
I'd keep undercoating until the purple is invisible.
Andy
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.
Unless you use low-energy bulbs...
On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:42:59 +0100, Frank Erskine gently dipped his quill in the best Quink that money could buy:
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Mike P the 1st
Wouldn't it have just been something like this stuff:
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've seen ceilings in the past with similar symptoms caused by this sort of paint
David
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
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