what is the average wage for a painter in wales?
i have recently started my painting business with my partner, but am unsure how much to charge customers. i a currently charging £120 a day(8 hours work,£60 each).This includes prep work.2 emulsion coats on ceiling and 2 on walls, and als glossing skirting.This is for an average10"x"10 room. Am i charging too little.Thanks
Categories: Decorators surrey Tags: coats, emulsion, painting
what kind of paint can i use on my cats?
my daughter tessa and her boyfriend baz want to make a funny animal film clip for tv and win £250. however they need to paint spots and stripes on some of our cats i.e. black stripes on our white cat everest so she looks like a zebra, black stripes on our ginger tom o’mally so he looks like a tiger etc. what would be ok to use emulsion or gloss as baz said he can get some off his painter friend neil.
Categories: Decorators surrey Tags: animal film, baz, cats, emulsion, film clip, friend neil, funny animal, ginger, ginger tom, gloss, spots and stripes, tessa, tiger, white cat, zebra
What can I wash the walls with?
My living room walls are magnolia and are quite grubby (baby hand prints etc). I live in a rented house so I need to know what to use to not cause any damage. I don’t want to repaint! Would sugar soap do anything? It looks like normal house paint, I don’t know the difference between emulsion or any other paint. Thanks
Categories: Decorators surrey Tags: baby hand prints, emulsion, living room, magnolia, room walls, soap
can i use the left over emulsion paints to paint some flowers and kids stuff on a garden play house?
the play house has been given 3 coats of cuprinol shed/fence care first, or am i wasting my time with emulsion. so far i have had people say both yes and no. has anyone done this… if so how did it last.
Categories: Decorators surrey Tags: coats, emulsion, fence, shed, wasting my time
Painting the wooden stairs, special paint and undercoat?
I know opinion is divided on the tackiness of painting the wooden stairs(in a terraced house).But I am going to take the path less taken! Is there any special undercoat and paint I need to get?I am used to work with emulsion Matt paints(my expertise! is the roller), but I am now confused what kind of paint I need to choose to get a Matt durable[quite light duty] finish( and like to look a little less dumb when I am visiting BnQ tomorrow!Tips appreciated
Categories: Decorators surrey Tags: emulsion, light duty, paint, tackiness, undercoat, wooden stairs
The coving in my house has been painted with gloss paint and looks crap.?
Will I need to sand it before I emulsion it?
Categories: Decorators surrey Tags: emulsion
Painting a kitchen, colour advice for old house?
My mums very old, cold house has a massive kitchen with lots of uneven walls to emulsion and lots of wood to gloss. At the moment the walls are sky blue and the woodwork is sunflower yellow, so nice and bright. We want a complete change in colour scheme but we haven’t a clue, it’s been this colour for about 15 years so nervous to change it and make a mistake – any ideas, please! The wood has to be painted not stripped, some of it is chipboard covering pipes etc.
Had a look at Farrow and Ball found some ideas thanks
…..Wow, moved 16 times! I was thinking of 3 colours, you’ve given me lots of ideas something to thinik about (for ages)!
Categories: Decorators surrey Tags: clue, colour scheme, colours, emulsion, farrow and ball, mistake, mums, pipes, sky blue, woodwork
Painting over cracked paint?
I have painted a room in my house and the paint has cracked I think this is because I applied the second coat too soon is there anything I can do?
Originally there was a very shiny paint on (don’t know what type as previous house owner applied) we put on a coat of white silk emulsion as the original colour was very dark and then two coats of matt emulsion were applied quite quickly afterwards.
Categories: Decorators surrey Tags: emulsion, shiny paint, silk, two coats