How much watering down of emulsion on new plaster?
Just had a room skimmed a week ago.
How long to wait before painting? And then how much to water-down the
emulsion? I was thinking 50/50 paint & water...
TIA
Graham
Date:Fri, 15 Jul 2005 20:36:27 GMT
Author:
|
Re: How much watering down of emulsion on new plaster?
In article <f7VBe.16$Fx3.3@newsfe7-gui.ntli.net>,
"GTS" writes:
> Just had a room skimmed a week ago.
> How long to wait before painting? And then how much to water-down the
For just a reskim, a few days after it looks dry should be OK.
> emulsion? I was thinking 50/50 paint & water...
It probably says on the tin. Normally 10-20% -- the higher figure
if the plaster surface is shiny (which it shouldn't really be).
50% will be far too much water -- a little makes a lot of difference.
--
Andrew Gabriel
Date:15 Jul 2005 22:13:34 GMT
Author:
|
Re: How much watering down of emulsion on new plaster?
"GTS" wrote in message
news:f7VBe.16$Fx3.3@newsfe7-gui.ntli.net...
> Just had a room skimmed a week ago.
> How long to wait before painting? And then how much to water-down the
> emulsion? I was thinking 50/50 paint & water...
> TIA
> Graham
>
Don't put 50% water back on the wall, you've just waited 3 days for it to
dry !!!
--
Vass
Date:Sat, 16 Jul 2005 07:59:16 +0100
Author:
|
Re: How much watering down of emulsion on new plaster?
"Andrew Gabriel" wrote in message
news:42d8350e$0$38037$5a6aecb4@news.aaisp.net.uk...
> In article <f7VBe.16$Fx3.3@newsfe7-gui.ntli.net>,
> "GTS" writes:
> > Just had a room skimmed a week ago.
> > How long to wait before painting? And then how much to water-down the
>
> For just a reskim, a few days after it looks dry should be OK.
>
> > emulsion? I was thinking 50/50 paint & water...
>
> It probably says on the tin. Normally 10-20% -- the higher figure
> if the plaster surface is shiny (which it shouldn't really be).
> 50% will be far too much water -- a little makes a lot of difference.
>
> --
> Andrew Gabriel
OK thanks for the info
Date:Sat, 16 Jul 2005 10:36:23 GMT
Author:
|