"Charles Middleton" wrote in message
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Dear all,

Another one of my questions.....

I am about to start painting my bathroom. Do I really need to use special
bathroom paint or will any old emulsion suffice?

Chatting in the pub the other night the theory was that if I didn't use
bathroom paint then the moisture in the bathroom would penetrate the
standard emulsion into the plaster and give me possible damp/mould
problems.

Has anyone any experience of using either bathroom / standard paint in
bathrooms and what are the effects?

Thanks in advance,

CM.


We are in the process oof replacing everything in the bathroom, and also
obviously painting it.

The ceiling was last painted about 4 years ago with standard emulsion and
looks absolutely fine BUT in the areas that I've removed the light fittings
and pull cord for the shower the paint has peeled off relatively easily. My
opinion now is that while everything may look fine on top the adhesion of
the paint to the surface below may not be fully sound. FYI the ceiling had
been newly plastered before the original painting, left to dry for about 3
weeks, and then had a couple of coats of watered down emulsion before
applying the final coat. (the same process was applied to everyother room
in the house with no ill effects noted other than in the bathroom)

Even with the window craked open our bathroom does get pretty steamy fairly
regularly between a couple of showers in the mroning and bathing the kids
in the evening, so this is perhaps an extreme case. A new extractor fan
will help allieviate this problem but I will still be trying out a bathroom
type paint on a the walls that are not tiled this time around.

So while I don't believe that there will be any issues with mould I do have
some reservations about the long term adhesion of standard emulsion in a
moist atmoshere, 90% of the time you may well get away with a standard
paint and all will look fine, or at least on the surface any way :-)

cheers

David