Browse Forums Finishing Touch Re: painting whole house tips? 2Jan 22, 2010 8:38 pm Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: painting whole house tips? 4Jan 23, 2010 7:53 am Current status: Busy making the house our home Built PD Francis 29 on our 576m2 block at Reflections in Tarneit Reflections Estate Thread Our Build Thread Re: painting whole house tips? 5Jan 27, 2010 1:04 pm Henley - Wilshire Mk 3 ... I love my house!! Site start: 4th Feb 09 Handover: 10th Sep 09 Blog: http://stormygirlscastle.blogspot.com/ Build Thread: viewtopic.php?t=7166 Re: painting whole house tips? 6Jan 27, 2010 1:16 pm Current status: Busy making the house our home Built PD Francis 29 on our 576m2 block at Reflections in Tarneit Reflections Estate Thread Our Build Thread Re: painting whole house tips? 7Jan 27, 2010 1:24 pm Current status: Busy making the house our home Built PD Francis 29 on our 576m2 block at Reflections in Tarneit Reflections Estate Thread Our Build Thread Re: painting whole house tips? 8Jan 27, 2010 1:26 pm Henley - Wilshire Mk 3 ... I love my house!! Site start: 4th Feb 09 Handover: 10th Sep 09 Blog: http://stormygirlscastle.blogspot.com/ Build Thread: viewtopic.php?t=7166
Re: painting whole house tips? 9Jan 27, 2010 1:35 pm Current status: Busy making the house our home Built PD Francis 29 on our 576m2 block at Reflections in Tarneit Reflections Estate Thread Our Build Thread Re: painting whole house tips? 11Jan 31, 2010 6:21 am Current status: Busy making the house our home Built PD Francis 29 on our 576m2 block at Reflections in Tarneit Reflections Estate Thread Our Build Thread Re: painting whole house tips? 14Feb 11, 2010 7:56 am wizard how do I work out how much paint we'll need approximately? As we need to do all the walls in the house (3 smallish bedrooms, hallway, 2 living areas and kitchen) is there a way to work out how much? What you need to know is how many square meters you are painting, roughly is good enough. Times the height by width and you get your square meters, eg. Say you are painting a wall that measures 4m x 2.7m (10.8m2), 2 walls that measure 6m x 2.7m (16.2m2 x 2 = 32.4m2) and 3 walls that measure 4.6m x 2.7m (12.42m2 x 3 = 37.2m2). Add all the m2 together (10.8 + 32.4 + 37.2 = 80.4. If you are doing 2 coats (and you should, times this number by 2 = 160.8m2 in total. Paint covers between 12 and 16m2 per liter, but its best to work on a worst case scenario, so then you divide your total (160.8m2) by 12, giving you 13.4lt of paint. It becomes quite complicated when doing a whole house, that’s why a rough estimation is good enough, and if it works out that you need 4 x 15lt for example, buy 3 and see how you go with that, you might find you may only need a 10lt at the end. wizard does anyone know how much of a discount a tradie gets on paint? we're looking at dulux wash and wear to buy and my BIL mentioned he knows someone who might be able to get us paint at a discount. Painters get a pretty big discount, so if you can get it that way then why not, your not supposed to, but if you can save yourself some $$$. Also, there is better paint out there than Dulux, trust me, I have PM’d you a question, let me know the answer and I can give you some advice on what paint to get if you want. wizard how do i work out what strength of paint to use on the wall? I've seen a lot of people mention 1/4 strength antique white usa and sometimes 1/2 strength? what about on the trims? There are no rules here, what some people do is if they have a colour they like but it’s too dark, they will get it in a half or quarter strength, but it all comes down to personal opinion, sample pots are your best friend, buy some and paint them on the walls (use the whole sample pot, you can’t tell a colour from a small streak). Then pick the colour you like the most. Just note, once a whole room is painted in a colour it tends to look darker that it actually is, and tends to look different that the sample you painted on the wall. Plenty of natural light will lighten a colour (to some extent), less natural light darkens a colour, the darker the colour the smaller the room feels. wizard is antique white USA got a yellow tinge? the previous owners told us that the walls are meant to an ivory colour but they look so yellow to me and maybe its the lighting? is there a white that will counteract the yellowness of the lighting? Antique white USA isn’t very yellow, so it’s probably the lighting, if you want to stop the yellow, you should look at colours that are more beige than yellow, more on the brownish side of things, greys are good for that too. Also note that you mentioned that your walls are yellow now, so any sample pots you paint on your walls will look yellower than they really are because you will get the light reflecting off the yellow onto the samples. turando Also my BIL mentioned doing an undercoat and then one coat of paint? is that a good idea or not? Doing an undercoat is not mandatory when the walls are already painted, but it is always a recommendation, if it was me, I would undercoat 100%. Oh, and if you are going to undercoat, do the undercoat first then paint your sample pots, it will give you more of a true colour, also paint the samples away from each other, not side by side. Current status: Busy making the house our home Built PD Francis 29 on our 576m2 block at Reflections in Tarneit Reflections Estate Thread Our Build Thread Re: painting whole house tips? 15Feb 11, 2010 9:01 am This thread is BRILLIANT, I had questions about painting that I didn't even know answered! We'll be doing the painting for our new place in the next couple of months so having all these seasoned pro tips means we're off to the best possible start. Kek and Wizard, you're legends! And thanks to Michelle for the link. I'm armed with a lot of info now... Re: painting whole house tips? 16Feb 11, 2010 12:22 pm Thanks wizard I PM'd you back. quick q - where do I get cloudy ammonia? And I guess whilst I'm here I'll ask about painting the tiles in the bathroom - i was planning to use the whte knight tile stuff but is there a better alternative. The tiles are in the shower (walls not floor) and also on the outside of the bathtub. As we're on a tight budget replacing them right now is not an option but even if the paint lasts a year or two i'd be happy. Re: painting whole house tips? 17Feb 11, 2010 12:29 pm See my PM about cloudy ammonia, as for the tile paint, there are only a couple of products that you can use and they are all quite pricey, there are certain undercoats that will stick to tiles, but would need to know what type of tile you have, then you could use and oil based paint over the top. It’s not the best thing for it, but it’s the cheapest short term alternative Current status: Busy making the house our home Built PD Francis 29 on our 576m2 block at Reflections in Tarneit Reflections Estate Thread Our Build Thread Re: painting whole house tips? 19Feb 12, 2010 6:20 am Cloudy Ammonia isn't available in many places, just ring around you local paint and hardware stores. If anyone in near the Preston are in Melbourne, www.paintzone.com.au sell it Current status: Busy making the house our home Built PD Francis 29 on our 576m2 block at Reflections in Tarneit Reflections Estate Thread Our Build Thread Just be careful with building stability during construction, that is when the structure may be weakened, refer to your engineering drawings for stability methodology. 1 7231 Thank you so much. This has been very helpful. We definitely wish to settle and get these people out of our life. They are trying to charge us interest on late… 7 14279 Hi, Have used the Dulux 1 step, oil base on my walls(white set), out of can it’s already a more thinner product than a final coat paint Also in water base Water or… 3 5038 |