zed4
Prominent Member
Hi all,
Yes, it's yet another DIY question from me!
The other day I painted the lounge, it looked really good and I was really pleased with it. That evening my girlfriend said she was going to paint the downstairs toilet room. I said not to because it was too late and was going to take too long. She decided to do it anyway on her own!
During the process, I handed her my various rollers and asked her to use up the remaining paint on her walls. She then rolled them out on the walls she wasn't currently working on and handed them back to me. There were huge runs and blobs of paint where she had rolled them against the wall. I did say for her to roll them in before they dry, but I was interfering apparently!
Anyway, later that evening she's finished and I have a look. Most of the room looks great, but the runs and huge blobs of paint are still there and now dry. So two days later, I'm left with the task of getting rid of these blobs. Only they won't sand down, because under the blobs the paint is not completely set. It just makes a mess. Then the paint just starts peeling off the wall in areas I'm sanding. I guess I should have waited until the paint was completely dry but I thought two days would have been enough.
Eventually I manage to peel back the flaking paint and remove all the blobs, but now I'm left with huge patches of bare wall. Whilst I was in the shower this morning my girlfriend had decided to paint over said bare patches so it looked better. But it's really obvious where these bare patches were. See photos. So what can we do to make these look better? Is it a case of having to remove all the new paint completely, rub down the old paint until smooth and then start again with the painting?
This room has been a nightmare of a job! The lounge is about five times the size and was much easier!
Yes, it's yet another DIY question from me!
The other day I painted the lounge, it looked really good and I was really pleased with it. That evening my girlfriend said she was going to paint the downstairs toilet room. I said not to because it was too late and was going to take too long. She decided to do it anyway on her own!
During the process, I handed her my various rollers and asked her to use up the remaining paint on her walls. She then rolled them out on the walls she wasn't currently working on and handed them back to me. There were huge runs and blobs of paint where she had rolled them against the wall. I did say for her to roll them in before they dry, but I was interfering apparently!
Anyway, later that evening she's finished and I have a look. Most of the room looks great, but the runs and huge blobs of paint are still there and now dry. So two days later, I'm left with the task of getting rid of these blobs. Only they won't sand down, because under the blobs the paint is not completely set. It just makes a mess. Then the paint just starts peeling off the wall in areas I'm sanding. I guess I should have waited until the paint was completely dry but I thought two days would have been enough.
Eventually I manage to peel back the flaking paint and remove all the blobs, but now I'm left with huge patches of bare wall. Whilst I was in the shower this morning my girlfriend had decided to paint over said bare patches so it looked better. But it's really obvious where these bare patches were. See photos. So what can we do to make these look better? Is it a case of having to remove all the new paint completely, rub down the old paint until smooth and then start again with the painting?
This room has been a nightmare of a job! The lounge is about five times the size and was much easier!