Wash it off with Sugar soap and paint on a Stabilzer, some B&Q sell it or you may need a decoators merchants.
And welcum by the way.
Welcome, re the distemper, pva over it and then when it pulls in scrape it off, repeat till its all gone, then you can sugar soap it..
It's common enough, some use steamers which can damage the plaster underneath, distemper is the bane of refurbs,some plaster straight over but its too risky,my way is hard work especially if the ceiling is bumpy as the blade needs flat surface to work, google it and there loads about it..Are we allowed to talk shop in this forum? :RpS_unsure:
O heck you got me started now
Well, under the peeling emulsion in the lounge was a rippled soft distemper. I think the ceiling had been wetted at some stage and maybe the distemper had migrated into peaks and troughs. I scrubbed the ceiling with hot soapy water about 6 times and used a window scraper blade. Messy. I think there was also something wierd under the soft distemper. I feared it might be hard distemper which nothing is meant to be able to stick to (apart from soft distemper). By then I had had enough. So I painted the whole ceiling with Dulux primer sealer, then white emulsion, followed by a coat of flwxible ceiling paint. 2 years on paint has not cracked or flaked yet.
It's grade 2 listed building hence my reluctance to do anything more eg reskim. Overboarding definately not allowed without listed consent
Now I'm on the kitchen.
johniosaif:
Thats a very interesting method of removing distemper which I have not come across before.
Not on my job, what can happen during troweling up, a blister /bubble appears, you cut this out and it runs and runs creating a diameter of a metre plus, you might get several of these, would you pay money for this? Instruct him to remove it as per my idea or have it removed by labourers which is more sensible,but you must ensure it is done properly, I often have people saying ,we removed what we could which was very little..A plasterer recommended that i skim over the ceiling. He said he would rough it up first with a stanley knife to penetrate below to get a good key
Is that a valid method?
Irish boy .london emigrantYou need to get it of and stabilise in my opinion, otherwise as Cockerny boy said you will almost have difficlty when troweling up.On the plus side when it peels it normally brings the distemper with it.
Good example..good photoBit like this one did.
We all have been there, at this point someone always says" overboard ,its the only way" same problem now with paint been put on without the first coat been watered down, peels like distemper, I have had to take all paint from walls and ceilings,That was only after applying WBA, thats when i found the fkin distemper, arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.