Refurb wooden panelling in bathroom

[Monkey]

Hi all

Our main bathroom has yukky wood panelling around the bath and up the bath wall.

It looks pretty bad, with the wood getting on age-wise and it is marked and worn (patchy) in places.

As a short-term fix, before we gut the bathroom and start again (with tiles), we thought we'd repaint the panels to improve the look a bit.

I'd very much appreciate advice on a good product to use - waterproof paint or lacquer? Are there any particular tricks to doing this?

cheers!

 

[Propertunity]

You need to first paint the wood with a product from Zinsser (this will lock in any stains or wood 'bleeding' through the finished paint job). Then apply 2 coats of either oil based or water based enamel.

 

[craigb]

each to there own but in my opinion the product you need is fire, burn the lot and tile the entire bathroom, they create mould issues , and have no room in the residential bathroom, yucky yucky ,

 

[Monkey]

Yup that's what we plan to do. But not while it's tenanted. At least not during the current tenancy. we're after a short term solution for now. Thanks Prop'ty, we'll look into your suggestion