Try not to laugh too much.
I wanted to paint our main staircase black and white - black treads and white risers.
Preparation took absolutely ages, as it's 100 years old and had been painted before. I worked on it for about 5 hours a day for 10 days.
So I used Ronseal knot block/primer/undercoat (2 coats) then the plan was to paint the treads with Blackfriar anti-slip floor paint.
The main issue was to do with the fact that the staircase is in constant use - I have 2 teenage kids, 3 cats and 3 dogs. Pet hair gets everywhere !
Now, the Blackfriar paint has this info:
Thus I assumed that if I painted it late at night, it would be fine in the morning. Wrong !!! I don't know what "Hard Dry" actually means but I assumed it could take light traffic the next morning. In reality, it took 5 days to become OK to walk on. In the meantime the surface was very tracky and gathered pet hair. Keeping the pets themselves away wasn't too hard, but we had to literally climb up or down the banisters/handrail/string, so as to not touch the treads, after 2 days of that I had to abandon the idea because not only was it a bit dangerous (and difficult) to climb, but it was a colossal pain in the neck!. It all had to come off again, and I'm now in the process of redoing it, this time with different paint:
2 coats of primer/undercoat (recoatable after a couple of hours), 3 coats of Ronseal Diamond Hard floor paint (recoatable after 4 hours) and then 3 coats of Smith and Rodger Rocktop Multi-surface Clearcoat - which is recoatable after 2 hours. I worked on 2 steps at a time and I built a "stair protector" out of Plywood and 2x2 timber which rests on the tread above the one being painted, and has 3 legs (just on one side) that sit on the tread below. Although the paint seems touch dry after a few hours, I am keeping the protector on for 24 hours and then covering the finished treads with 2 layers of pallet-wrap cling film.
RL
I wanted to paint our main staircase black and white - black treads and white risers.
Preparation took absolutely ages, as it's 100 years old and had been painted before. I worked on it for about 5 hours a day for 10 days.
So I used Ronseal knot block/primer/undercoat (2 coats) then the plan was to paint the treads with Blackfriar anti-slip floor paint.
The main issue was to do with the fact that the staircase is in constant use - I have 2 teenage kids, 3 cats and 3 dogs. Pet hair gets everywhere !
Now, the Blackfriar paint has this info:
| Hard Dry | 4 - 6 hours at 20ºc |
| Recoatable | 16 hours |
Thus I assumed that if I painted it late at night, it would be fine in the morning. Wrong !!! I don't know what "Hard Dry" actually means but I assumed it could take light traffic the next morning. In reality, it took 5 days to become OK to walk on. In the meantime the surface was very tracky and gathered pet hair. Keeping the pets themselves away wasn't too hard, but we had to literally climb up or down the banisters/handrail/string, so as to not touch the treads, after 2 days of that I had to abandon the idea because not only was it a bit dangerous (and difficult) to climb, but it was a colossal pain in the neck!. It all had to come off again, and I'm now in the process of redoing it, this time with different paint:
2 coats of primer/undercoat (recoatable after a couple of hours), 3 coats of Ronseal Diamond Hard floor paint (recoatable after 4 hours) and then 3 coats of Smith and Rodger Rocktop Multi-surface Clearcoat - which is recoatable after 2 hours. I worked on 2 steps at a time and I built a "stair protector" out of Plywood and 2x2 timber which rests on the tread above the one being painted, and has 3 legs (just on one side) that sit on the tread below. Although the paint seems touch dry after a few hours, I am keeping the protector on for 24 hours and then covering the finished treads with 2 layers of pallet-wrap cling film.
RL
