I’m trying to repaint my bathroom, and I’ve removed (most) of the wall paper so far and have realized the paint from before is cracking and peeling. How do I best remove that to get a fresh surface to put new paint on? Any suggestions?
I just took the carpet off my stairs. The paint underneath is thick, chipping, and peeling in some areas. Any advice how to prep this for a fresh coat of paint? Do I need to strip it off, scrape it, sand it???
I just moved into a new apartment that needs a lot of repairs. Among those repairs is the kitchen walls… one of the previous owners tried to remove a wallpaper on the walls, failed at removing it and then decided to paint over it.
I’ve been using the DIY method of spraying hot water, waiting 15 mins and then scraping what I can. It’s been hell. I’m attaching some photos of what I’ve done so far. I’m wondering if anyone has any advice on this project, especially as the wall is being left with some texture. Will I need to skim these walls? Thanks for any tips!
I had some guys in to paint the house back in May/June time. Since then only the front of the house and the garage have had these runs and streaks appear. Was it due to the hot weather we had? Rear of the house which is south facing and gable ends are fine! Just the garage, and front.
My fear is they didn’t wash and prep the front and garage as well as the others because they were trying to get it finished after one of the early heat waves .
I would love any advice. Having done research it seems that despite it being an old porch, given the weather conditions are best option is for semi translucent oil or hybrid based. We were considering the Benjamin Moore Wood Luxe, but it will rain all week and I’m just worried the wood will never be dry enough to use. I found the Olympic Maximum. Is that going to be the best to use or is there anything I’m missing? Any tips for painting in cool dry weather. I’m in KINGSTON Ontario and it looks like it’s going to get down to about 2° in the evenings by next week, but we’ll still have sunny warm days. It’s going to rain most of this week.
Thank you so much. My neighbour is on a pension and I’m laid off and we both have to sell our houses and we paid someone to paint their porch three years ago and she painted it when it was too damp, but it just started peeling immediately so we need to fix this up for sure and it’s feeling irrationally daunting
So this is a new construction house that’s only 3 months old , I have a little girl who made some scratches on the wall and i decided to paint them . Is there a reason why it looks like this even tho I’m using the correct paint ? Thank you in advance and I hope yall have wonderful morning/afternoon/evening .
We just purchased a house and I decided to use latex paint that was from 2019 in the basement. I painted one small bedroom and after two weeks or more the smell is awful. I learned there are things that happen as paint in a can ages. I was encouraged to use Zinsser BIN Shellac because it can cover/mask the old paint smell.
Is this my best option?
Thanks!
Many of the ceilings in my house have a thin plaster decorative swirl on the ceiling (I have included pictures).
I am wondering if anyone has experience painting these types of ceilings with colored paint? Specifically, I want to paint one of these ceilings light blue.
I looked into how to smooth the ceilings, but it is more work than I really want to do especially as the ceiling texture doesn’t bother me.
Can anyone show examples of painted textured ceilings or have knowledge of doing this?