Painting wall before replastering/rendering

Jul 14, 2025 Last reply: 1 year ago 1 Replies

We have a problem with rising damp in MIL's bungalow. We have removed quite a lot of plaster, and the aim is to deal with the source of the damp, and then plaster or render the wall.



This will take some time, and in the meantime we want to do some temporary decoration to make the room more pleasant.



What I'd like to know is whether it's okay to paint the exposed brickwork, or whether this will cause problems with the plastering/rendering when we come to do it later?



Any particular paint we should use?


My very limited experience in this department would suggest that painting the bare brick with SBR, let it dry, then emulsion will be fine.

To render over the emulsion, paint with SBR, let it dry (although apparently it can be plastered whilst wet, I cannot comment as I just let it dry first (a position taken due to "I can't be arsed to carry on today" rather than anything else)), then render (in my case I used cement).

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