Obliterating orange paint

I have recently had the same problem with a house I have been painting. I had orange, bright red, purple and ............wait for it..........black. Black ceilings, walls etc etc etc.

I tried all sorts but I went to B&Q and bought some (£19) 10 litre tubs of their new plaster paint and the coverage is excellent. It covered the black in just two coats. When it initially goes on it looks bad but wait for it to dry and it covers well. Then I covered it in a primrose yellow and it looks great. Its called B&Q trade new plaster paint. The trick to using it is (and it does say on the tub) dont over roller it. Apply give it a quick roller but dont keep going over it.

HTH Sam

Stain block is certainly pretty effective (better than undercoat) - whether there is anything else better I couldn't say.

David

In message , The Medway Handyman writes

You sure it's not congealed urine ?

You could always paint the walls white and see how much colour comes through from underneath

In message , Samantha Booth writes

Was there a cellar with "interesting" gymnastic equipment in ?

Yeah - mine had black ceilings and lime green walls (except where they hadn't bothered painting behind cabinets and wall units, that is)

a couple of coats of decent paint, problem neutralised

just paint as normal, at worst you might need one extra coat.

NT

And don't use Crown, which is absolute carp...

Dulux trade matt white. Consistency of mayonnaise. I unwisely followed the advice of a friend of SWMBO who fancied herself as a decor guru[1] and painted our small downstairs WC a sort of dull deep blue. When done it looked like the bogs at a seedy 70s disco. A coat or three of the Dulux and you'd never have known.

I like the angle grinder idea though :-)

Thus spake The Medway Handyman ( snipped-for-privacy@nospamblueyonder.co.uk) unto the assembled multitudes:

Get the Russians in. They did a good job of obliterating the orange last night ;-)

LOL

Adam