Emulsioning walls

Polycel do a range called 'Undercoat' or something similar. It is a very thick emulsion that it claims will cover dark colours with one coat (or maybe it was two).

Seen this problem, my friends wife very nicely cleaned the wall with furniture polish prior to him painting. Took several coats before the polish was mentioned !!!. Mind you emulsion peeled off easily.

A similar effect can be obtained with emulsion over gloss paint.

Nice.

Strip it all off. Sand lightly. Apply some PVA. Use acrylic not emulsion. Mix a little blue with the first couple of coats of white. Final coat or several of white.

And there you are.

Or you could use walpaper instead. Just nail some sheets of paper to the wall. Fill in the nail holes and sand down the filler.

In message , Michael Mcneil writes

What point can there be in that?

Nail?

Dulux emulsions have given me nothing but trouble over the last couple of years. I've had that crackle look on bare plasterboard, new plaster, and sealed new plaster. I just wish my customers wouldn't buy the stuff. Most recently I've ended up with a textured look when rolling on to new plaster yet, in the same room, Crown emulsion has delivered the perfect finish by the same method. Perish the thought, but I think Dulux have made a ballsup of their formulation.

New plaster would require "SuperMatt" rather than standard emulsion. Perhaps they just bought the standard stuff?

Christian.

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, stuart noble, gave forth these words of wisdom:

Now it's funny that you should mention this Stuart. I have just finished one room right next to the problem one. I used Crown emulsion over a pretty dark finish there and never had any problems. My solution to the problem in hand has been to use some Focus/Do it All vinyl silk as an undercoat and finished with the Dulux Matt, ( the Focus paint went on a treat BTW). Not the best of finishes but SWMBO is happy with the end result so I'll leave it at that. I would have thrown the Dulux out if I could have afforded it but it's too bloody expensive! :-( Next time it's Crown for me. Cheers all, for your replies, Alec Powell, (thinking of an email to Dulux for their comments on this.....)

I'm really not interested in Dulux's marketing games. Super matt my arse! :-)

Indeed it would be better named "New Plaster" emulsion, given that it is a special purpose product.

Christian.

The blue stops the substrate grinning. It absorbs/reflects blue frequency light going in and coming out.

In message , Michael Mcneil writes

Well it will either absorb it or reflect it............

Sorry, sounds like a pointless activity to me, but I really can't be bothered to argue the toss.