On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:24:53 +0100, --s-p-o-n-i-x--
wrote:

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:40:26 +0100, MM wrote:

I have several fine drying out cracks in the plaster of my house,
which is now about 18 months old. Several walls are affected. I shall
short;ly be placing the property on the market. I don't want to go to
all the hassle of painting all the walls, which are currently
magnolia.

My aim is to repair the cracks and dust over them with a fine brush
with magnolia so that the cracks are invisible. In other words, the
kind of repair done to Old Masters.

Possible?

Yes, it's possible but the difficulty will come in getting the colour
to match.

I could do this by colouring some Polyfilla to match the magnolia.
Alternatively, just use Polyfilla as it comes, then brush across the
crack with magnolia afterwards. Maybe then leave it a couple of months
for normal ageing to work and for the newly applied paint to 'weather'
into the surrounding wall.

Personally, this is the route I'd take. Fill the cracks with a
flexible decorators filler (The sort that comes out of a sealant gun)
and paint the cracks, with a thin brush (Artists brush). Matchpots
will save the expense of buying a big tin of paint.

Agreed. Also, I have had considerable success in the past with the
Dulux paint matching service at Homebase and elsewhere. Even the
tiniest swatch of paint is enough to get a match, and the match has
been very close each time. I might have to 'steal' a portion of the
plaster, with magnolia surface intact, from some unobtrusive place
around the house - inside the walk-in wardrobes, for example, or if
it's the same wall - as each wall may have been painted at different
times over several days - then down in a corner somewhere.

MM