I am presently emulsioning ( white V/Matt) newly plasterboarded walls in my bathroom and having a slight problem with the joins where I used Gyproc Joint Filer which dries a sort of beige/cream colour . ...It takes a fair bit to get to the stage where it stops showing through . Is there a product that I can use to put on as the first coat to kill the filler showing through .? tia
Stuart .
Wherever you paint two different surfaces side by side (paper and filler in this case) you are going to get a visible joint, the only way I have found around this is to seal the wall first with silk vinyl, which gets a 'skin' over it, or oil based paint, which costs a fortune.
You MIGHT try a white acrylic wood primer thinned down a bit.
Or even just lightly brushed (I tried it, it works)
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