Hi All
Have just painted the bathroom from hell - new villa board walls, etc - I completely ripped old bathroom out and started from new concrete floor upwards to my 15 foot ceiling! Kristine I can now spin on the second to top rung of the ladder! sweat a lot though!!!!. I have saved the entire rotten mess and was wondering if anyone else has come up with some ways of rescuing a disaster paint job - I had new villa board walls done by the plasterers. Went to paint shop obtained sealer for appropriate product - sealed wall twice, undercoated then two coats of paint that was made up to match the tiles - colour was perfect, but boy, was a thick bloody awful messy paint. After two rollered coats and three (different colour)on the ceiling, could see so many roller marks - something like grease spots on the plaster walls that just did not want to be covered in paint. It was like sections of the plaster walls and ceilings would not accept the sealer - kept thinking it would get better with every coat, it didnt. the paint on the walls is a gloss acrylic (how do you do spell check on this new system???) - which shows up lots of imperfections I know- anyway, crying didnt seem to be getting me anywhere, and after many dollars of products and a very tight time frame, I went to Bunnings at 8:00pm - bought a $15.00 marble paint effects roller - got what was left of the bloody thick blue stuff and resisted throwing it against the walls, rollered it on instead thickly with the groovy new roller - i love the effect, it had disguised all the original marks and areas where it looked like air bubbles, bits that wouldnt accept the paint etc - has a bit of a groovy old flock wall paper look about it now with the gloss finish. I saved it in time for the plumber to start at 06:00 the next morning, the high back period bath has the same blue coating on the outside, I didnt realize it has a textured look about it also-hey presto! - both walls and bath now have a similar finish. I am very happy with the wall effect after such a disaster and all down to a $15.00 roller. I am actually a very good painter, have done many walls and ceilings in my life time just dont know what happened to this job - do any of you have similar "saved it" stories and could tell us how you managed it, any hints or tricks you found along the way that could help others out of "sticky" situations - I hate ceiling paint, I dont like using it and use a low sheen acrylic (bugger that word again), instead - anyone know if this is the wrong thing to do, and do you use something other than ceiling paint? any hints, suggestions, stories, gratefully ingested. I do love the look of the old full gloss enamel on doors and window frames though! Unfortunately my plumber has just finished leaning against the wet door frame in the famous bathroom - off I go again!
Denise
Have just painted the bathroom from hell - new villa board walls, etc - I completely ripped old bathroom out and started from new concrete floor upwards to my 15 foot ceiling! Kristine I can now spin on the second to top rung of the ladder! sweat a lot though!!!!. I have saved the entire rotten mess and was wondering if anyone else has come up with some ways of rescuing a disaster paint job - I had new villa board walls done by the plasterers. Went to paint shop obtained sealer for appropriate product - sealed wall twice, undercoated then two coats of paint that was made up to match the tiles - colour was perfect, but boy, was a thick bloody awful messy paint. After two rollered coats and three (different colour)on the ceiling, could see so many roller marks - something like grease spots on the plaster walls that just did not want to be covered in paint. It was like sections of the plaster walls and ceilings would not accept the sealer - kept thinking it would get better with every coat, it didnt. the paint on the walls is a gloss acrylic (how do you do spell check on this new system???) - which shows up lots of imperfections I know- anyway, crying didnt seem to be getting me anywhere, and after many dollars of products and a very tight time frame, I went to Bunnings at 8:00pm - bought a $15.00 marble paint effects roller - got what was left of the bloody thick blue stuff and resisted throwing it against the walls, rollered it on instead thickly with the groovy new roller - i love the effect, it had disguised all the original marks and areas where it looked like air bubbles, bits that wouldnt accept the paint etc - has a bit of a groovy old flock wall paper look about it now with the gloss finish. I saved it in time for the plumber to start at 06:00 the next morning, the high back period bath has the same blue coating on the outside, I didnt realize it has a textured look about it also-hey presto! - both walls and bath now have a similar finish. I am very happy with the wall effect after such a disaster and all down to a $15.00 roller. I am actually a very good painter, have done many walls and ceilings in my life time just dont know what happened to this job - do any of you have similar "saved it" stories and could tell us how you managed it, any hints or tricks you found along the way that could help others out of "sticky" situations - I hate ceiling paint, I dont like using it and use a low sheen acrylic (bugger that word again), instead - anyone know if this is the wrong thing to do, and do you use something other than ceiling paint? any hints, suggestions, stories, gratefully ingested. I do love the look of the old full gloss enamel on doors and window frames though! Unfortunately my plumber has just finished leaning against the wet door frame in the famous bathroom - off I go again!
Denise