just had me living room plastered and ive been told the first coat should be a watered down matt emulsion, ive normally just bought pissy B&Q paint for the first coat (it's what ive bought again)

 

im putting coving up and i did upstair's and always had a problem with the adhesive going off too quick and sometime's cracking, ive been told that it's because ive put it up on bare plaster and this is the reason for the watered down paint

 

now me question is, what ratio should the pissy paint be, anyone know for sure?

5 parts paint 1 part water .you dont have to be too accurate though

cheer's mate, i was thinking about 10% water so that would be about the same

ive always done 2 thirds paint and a third water Allan..the next 2 coats stick like sh1t to a blanket

10% is about right Stellaz. If you are watering down b&q value then about 1% lol Alternatively get yourself some Dulux Fastmatt, it's great for new plaster.

The idea is to get the plaster to soak the paint up, rather than form a skin.

i always use the B&Q stuff for first coat's, ive never watered it down before but always put the coving up first, it's a right mess on trying to get the cove adhesive off new paster, just suck's it straight in and dry's it out too quick, just trying to avoid the usual ballache lol

2 thirds paint/1third water is what i always recommend when ive plastered something. didnt take my own advice once and used neat emulsion, had a nightmare with it because when i second coated, all the first coat peeled off as i rolled.

u can always unibond where the covings going to stop the suction.

i always use tile adhesive for putting coving up, its ideal for it

i usually just buy the ready mixed cove adhesive

Always 'piss' the first coat down. Otherwise it just sits on the plaster. Exactly right with the cove adhesive mate, sucks it dry and will always crack. Missus must be pleased it's nearly done, they get interested when the painting starts lol.

mate, it's been like this 6 year's lol, always do other people's work and not my own lol, but must crack on if im to get a zed next year, still recovering from the price of me bathroom and i did everything myself, cost over 3k for just material's and it's only small lol

you could buy a small tin of pva, tip it in a bucket, add five more tins of water, will seal anything from plaster to cement. easy to apply as well.

 

Alternatively buy some trade paint for new plaster, its breathable so takes much better than thinned paint..

 

Have fun, doing my hallway as I speak... using trade paint though this time, cant be arsed watering paint down..

would never pva bare plaster, when it come's to painting it's like painting on plastic and scrapes off

watered down properly it will soak into the plaster. When you put your white paint on top goes rock hard.. Then its dead easy to cover..

 

The thing I hate about it is because its very watery, if you get splatter, it is a glue and goes rock hard, nightmare to get off...

 

Im too lazy and pay the extra for the trade paint, thats what its made for..

 

Used to flog paint, so still get it cheap..:blush:

forgot to say, agree with the above comment, buy the ready mixed plaster..

 

saves loads of work and hassle...

putting coving up is a ballache anyway, but having to mix the cove adhesive would make it twice as bad lol

not based up in the north east are you??

certainly am, im in sunderland mate

I can either give you a hand or I use a Guy based in Billingham, cheapest, best and tidiest plasterer Ive ever met. puts my coving up for the price I can buy it for..

 

Shame about being in Sunderland, however Roker Pier is class for fishing..lol...

pmsl, i will manage but thank's anway, my mate is a plasterer only chrged me £200 to do my living room, was gonna do me coving for me but is away and i want to do it tomorrow

 

never been fishing for year's and roker is a great pier to fish off and apperently to top yaself, had three tennant's jump off over the year's and no it's not because of the rooms we let lol

lmao,,, its not the rooms but the area..lol, wish my tenant would top themself, sposed to out today, court order, still refusing.. not zed related but any advice welcome....

we have bedsit's not house's, usually a 21 day final warning then a section 21 2 month eviction notice is enough for us, oh and i usually drop the odd name in of the local villian's that i know

 

failing that usually the threat of court and an attachment of earning's is enough to get them running

we have bedsit's not house's, usually a 21 day final warning then a section 21 2 month eviction notice is enough for us, oh and i usually drop the odd name in of the local villian's that i know

 

failing that usually the threat of court and an attachment of earning's is enough to get them running

 

I wish, now applying to the court for a bailiff... No rights as a landlord..

 

resisting the temptation to deal it with it myself..

you could buy a small tin of pva, tip it in a bucket, add five more tins of water, will seal anything from plaster to cement. easy to apply as well.

 

Alternatively buy some trade paint for new plaster, its breathable so takes much better than thinned paint..

 

Have fun, doing my hallway as I speak... using trade paint though this time, cant be arsed watering paint down..

 

I do this too harby - I've painted a million walls (slight exaggeration) and its always worked fine for me with a good strong finish. Makes the coats after a dam site easier too.