Just had a room freshly plastered, went down to B&Q to buy some paint. Not being experts asked for some advice, we were told that we should seal the walls with a PVA glue solution before applying our matt white water based emulsion(also recommended by some B&Q employee).....
Got all the stuff, PVA, Paint, rollers etc etc. I mixed the PVA with 5 parts water as instructed and proceeded to coat the walls. Once the PVA solution had dried we started to apply the first coat of emulsion. It was like painting on glass! It took 4/5 coats to get an even cover. Days when the painting was done, we noticed certain bits needed touching up(bits missed, knocks etc etc)...
Started rollering and the paint that's on the walls just start bubbling and pealing off like paper. Not a very happy moment. It's obvious that the PVA solution hadn't worked, as it happened when we were painting ther first coats we decided to not use the PVA solution on one wall just to see how it differed and this wall only needed two coats...
So we call B&Q not very happy with the advice they had given. All the people at B&Q who we consulted all said "you are supposed to use PVA glue to seal walls". The manager then when to check with the decorating expert who also said the same, they then checked out the glue we had purchased (just regular Unibond PVA) and in the very small print it said "not to be used with water based paints"...
We then get a call back from B&Q appologising for being given "ill advice" and they offered more paint yadayada. The biggest DIY store in the country don't know how to put emulsion on walls?
It's two days to xmas and we were supposed to be moving all our stuff back into the "new" room today. Due to bad advice from B&Q we have a room full of flaky paint ontop of PVA glue, one wall is already start flaking like crazy. The others are fine, but we don't know what to do.
B&Q have suggested we go over the paint with oil based emulsion, but surely just putting oil ontop of the water based emulsion will do no good as it's all still ontop of the shitty glue layer. It would take literally days to scrape off all the current paint, and it won't steam off.
Anyone got any advice? at all?
regards