painting

Hi Recently moved into a new house and I'm looking to do a quick, cheap makeover of my kitchen as I can't afford to rip it all out and get a brand new one just now. One of the things I want to do is try and paint the horrible old plastic(!) ceiling that's in there (see pictures attached). How...

Hi thought we'd decorate the downstairs toilet and the previous owner had music note pages all stuck on one wall which initially looked nice & unique. After steaming off the pages and removing a mirror he'd put up using no nails and screws the wall's not looking too good. Where do i...

Hi, I'm planning to paint my house outside with masonry paint. It's a Victorian terraced house. I've read so much different information about how to prepare the outside and I'm not sure what's necessary in my situation. If you look at the photo you'll see it all looks in good condition...

Hi I skimmed a wall after a repair job and then put wallrock lining paper on. I then bought a 2.5l tin of Laura Ashley pale linen paint. Fine. Then the mrs said the lining paper looked so good why dont we put it on the other walls?. I agreed. However now I have relaised that I don't now think...

I've just ripped out my old kitchen and the new one has arrived flat packed. Sorry for any silly questions, I'm new to this! I'm guessing it's standard practice to paint the walls first and touch up after? What about the area I want tiled, I just leave the plaster as is there? And finally...

Hi all, Just renovating my first house, and as my family are not that into DIY just wanted to double check on here that I was going in the right direction before I start painting! She's quite old (~200 years) and has a lot of cracks. I've attached pictures of one room which gives quite a good...

Hi, I want to clad a scruffy bedroom ceiling using "uPVC hollow board for soffit and interior cladding". I'm using this because it's lightweight and cheaper than wood paneling. It's the usual white colour, but I want to paint it (probably a cream colour), so it looks more like wood cladding...

I had a team of "professionals" repaint the drywalls of a newly-purchased house. A few days after they completed the work, two kinds of defects appeared on the walls, in a large number of different spots. The first kind (depicted below) is the paint looking either depressed or protruded over...

Hi all, started using the diamond range from Dulux yesterday, hot day, add around 7% of water added to help consistency. It was quite smooth anyway, though, thought add some water would help. Though as soon as roll paint on walls and final lap the wet edges 3 mins later, literally the paint is...

Hi all, started using the diamond range from Dulux yesterday, hot day, add around 7% of water added to help consistency. It was quite smooth anyway, though, thought add some water would help. Though as soon as roll paint on walls and final lap the wet edges 3 mins later, literally the paint is...

Hi guys, I am having serious problems with this Paint finish (Diamond), i opted for highest durability finish tinted colour (dusted moss 4) to paint over my 5 year old emulsion painted wall.Though i have been having a nightmare with this paints drying times. It is just drying way to quickly...

I've just paid a small fortune to have the render (roughcast) painted on my house. The chimneys are a particular problem and needed scaffolding. While the scaffolding is still up I wondered if I could apply a coating to extend the life/look of the finish - in particular inhibit the re-growth of...

Hi All, I have double coated my bedroom walls with a beautiful "Dusted Moss (Colour)" Dulux Matt paint from my local Homebase which was on offer. It was the standard matt finish (no durability element to it) The walls are technically finished now and look amazing, though, I had second...

I've putty pointed some windows using linseed oil putty. Can I paint over this type of putty using a water based paint? For the record I have some water based zinsser exterior allcoat. The putty doesn't seem to indicate anything, all it says is allow 7 days to dry before painting. It's the...

Ok so i've made a bit of botch up. I lightly sanded down some exterior gloss window frames and primed using dulux primer under coat and then painted the frames using dulux satin wood which is only suitable for interior instead of the gloss which is suitable for exterior. Can I paint over...

Hi All, I have run into a slight problem, my ceiling had some very bad cracks in them, I reached out to my plaster who plastered the ceiling and cracks. A month passed and the same old cracks returned. Mist coat was applied to the new plaster ceiling after a few weeks. I informed my plasterer...

Hi, I have a wooden window sill which has multiple layers of gloss paint. A large section of it has peeled off to barewood. Now the surface level between the remaining paint and the bare wood is almost 2-3 mm. How do I repaint the sill so that I get a nice overall even surface - I've tried to...

Hoping you can help as I made a mistake on my painting - I had been using a plaster primer that didn't need diluting for a mist coat. Everyone told me to 'just use Leyland Trade' which I did, but I didn't add the 10% water for the mist coat. Currently I have a base coat (not diluted) on the...

5.5mm and 9mm hardwood ply services boxing in a kitchen. Will wood primer cause delamination? I'd like to end up with the same paint on the box and adjacent walls, not too worried about cracking between varying substrates as there's already breeze and stud walls so plenty of corner cracking...

Hi all, We are having our bathroom re-done and are on a budget and time constraint due to baby bump growing fast! My husband took off all the bathroom tiles (floor to ceiling) yesterday and the walls are uneven and going to be difficult, time-consuming and costly to plaster. My builder has...