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On 03/07/2010 00:31, John Rumm wrote:
On 02/07/2010 22:51, dave wrote:
On 02/07/2010 20:38, Mike P the 1st wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:33:08 +0100,
gently dipped his quill in the best Quink that money could buy:


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news On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:26:40 +0100, wrote:

After 8 years the wife finally can't take any more of the custard
yellow
colour of our front room so I've been given my orders to do something
about
it. My plan of attack is to

Paint pads are used here.

Gloss before emulsion, as emulsion is easy to remove from gloss, not
vice versa. (At least with real gloss, not that watered ****e)


Use Matt Emulsion - never Silk

Why only Matt ?


On a ceiling, it just doesn't look right. Walls, you can get away with,
but that is only my personal opinion.


It depends on the room IME... generally I like white matt ceilings, but
there are some rooms where silk seems to work better. Probably ones with
highly detailed sculpted ceiling papers - the silk makes the pattern
more visible.


Sorry, I didn't consider that, only plain and artex ones. You are
probably right there.

Dave