Interior Painting Questions

Interior Painting Questions

Interior painting questions pertaining to the preparation and painting of interior surfaces. This list can be very long indeed. Like spots that bleed through your paint, should I paint or stain, peeling paint or how many coats do I need. If it has to do with actually painting something inside your home, ask your question here.

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Sub-Categories

• Painting Walls and Ceilings - Questions about painting walls and ceilings and the many challenges they pose.
• Interior Trim, Windows and Doors - Questions and answers about the preparation and painting of interior trim (base, casing or windows) and doors.
• Painting Interior Brick and Tile - Questions about painting brick and tiled surfaces and having a durable good looking paint job.
• Paint Roller Marks and Thick Paint - Have you ended up with paint roller marks? These questions deal with this problem and how to best get rid of them.
• Spots and Patches - Questions about spots and patches on newly painted walls and ceilings that won't go away.
• Peeling and Cracking Paint - Questions about peeling and/or cracking paint on walls and ceilings. This can be about old paint that has started peeling or new paint that is showing signs of failure.

Questions with Answers

• Re-deco a 1970 house - I have stripped wallpaper from a interior window wall. Removed all wall plugs and filled in cracks and holes with poly filler. Finally sanded full wall down. Next step is to paint wall. Do I need to seal wall with Polybond or primer or will a bas...
• Staining a painted wall? - I just bought a house and it has wood grain paneling, that is painted white? Can you stain a painted wall? Or do you have any suggestions.
• How many coats for plaster? - We are building our home and have just finished plastering. How many coats of primer and top coat are required for raw plaster?
• Sheetrock Primer - How many coats of primer do I need on new sheetrock?
• What can I use to fill in textured drywall before painting to blue painters tape? - I have textured walls that I would like to paint sections of. In the past, the darker color would run under the depressions in the wall under the blue painters tape. I have heard that I can apply a clear substance before along the painters tape ...
• Used latex primer over oil paint - We primed 2 bedrooms and a hallway with a latex primer and then painted the bedrooms. We then realized the bedrooms needed more drywall work, so we touched up drywall, primed and painted again in one of the bedrooms (the other bedroom is still ge...
• Painting lines on a new popcorn like wall? - I have a home that was built in 2006 and now days they are using the popcorn style wall, that is what I call it. I just recently painted my newest daughter's room pink with brown horizontal lines. With this style of wall even using tape I still h...
• Added detail to already painted cinder block walls. - I am wanting to a paint a mural on an already finished cinder block office wall. I am needing to know what would be the best paint to use. To offer the best durability and finish.
• Difference In Paint - My question is, I was using a semi-gloss enamel paint and ran out. Could I use another paint that is the same color but is not the enamel it is still semi-gloss to finish the job?
• Painting First or Tile First - I am doing a remodel that needs painting throughout, I am also doing some tile work. Should I tile and then paint or paint and then do the tile work? It will be flooring and back splash areas and bathrooms.
• Painting a new build and I have never painted before. - I am painting my home for the first time, as when I moved in two years ago it was a new build. The whole house is painted in a horrid creamily color and now I am starting to make my house look like a home, as I am a single parent of three girls ag...
• Semi gloss paint walls... - We picked a color called " gold metallic paint" from Lowe's that had to be painted in two stages. First layer was a Semi-gloss yellow paint which had to be applied several times due to wrong primer color...!! The last paint is a metallic paint whi...
• Painting over sharpie,,,,Lost cause? - Ok, so we have been renting this house for about three years and have a 3 year old and an 20 month old. We are moving and need to paint, but the problem is after three years and two toddlers the walls are in need of some serious love, there is a ...
• Painting Over Markings on a Wall - Okay, so when I was 12 me and my friends thought it would be a great idea to have some fun with some sharpies on my painted walls. I'm sick and tired of looking at the ginormous cartoon dinosaur over and over again each morning. I know we have the...
• Painting over smoke damaged walls. - I recently had an electrical fire in my co-op apartment. The bedroom was a total loss, and the other rooms suffered various amounts of smoke damage. I understand that the walls have to be scrubbed down, and sealed to cut down on the smoke smell. I...
• How do I paint a brick fireplace? - I want to paint my brick fireplace. How do I do this?
• Will a flat ceiling latex cover the over-spray of a trim latex semi-gloss? - I want to spray the trim with latex semi-gloss then come back and roll the walls with latex satin and roll the ceilings with a flat. Will this work? Will the sheens be affected by laying a lower sheen on a higher sheen?
• Painting Over Semi Gloss Latex - Our kitchen was first painted with flat paint and then my wife spruced it up by using a feather duster to put a pattern on the walls. When we decided to repaint, we used a Semi-gloss latex and you can see every feather duster pattern. What do I do...
• Prep For Inside Garage Painting - I want to paint the inside walls and ceiling in my garage. Its normal wallboard, and has not been painted in 20 years. How should I prep, and should I use primer before paint?
• Interior painting proceedures. - For a novice painter such as myself, which is the best procedure in repainting an already occupied home? Sprayer or rollers and brush?
• A Splatter Disaster - I splattered my kids room a few years ago. So now we are changing the theme and I sanded it and then primed then painted two coats of paint. Some marks are showing through the paint. And, just to let you know it was done with a good quality acryli...
• Painting Over Wall Murals - I want to know how many coats of primer do I need to cover my wall murals? I've painted Dinosaurs in my son's room (and sports themed in my others) and the colors that I need to cover up are black, burgundy, hunter green, etc. (dark colors for the...
• How do you cover a black painted interior wall? - My son is moving into a house previously owned by Goths. The interior walls and woodwork have been beautifully painted in black. What is the best way to proceed so that I can help him give his daughter a pink bedroom, and return the other rooms to...
• Need to know the best technique to use for masking wall at ceiling. - I painted a bedroom a dried tomato color. The color is beautiful, but I'm not happy with results after pulling blue masking tape at the ceiling corner. It's not even and looks terrible in some spots. I considered using caulking around entire room,...
• Walls First or Woodwork First - Do I emulsion the walls first, on a new build, ie bare plaster and new timber skirting boards and architraves, or do I prime, undercoat, then topcoat the woodwork, allow to dry, mask the skirts and arcs up and emulsion the walls, giving a clean li...

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