Hi,
I am about to start painting my new house. All interior walls have been skimmed with skimcoat and have been well dried out (over the last two months)
I have three questions:
1. Do I need to clean down the walls- with a dry cloth , with water & some sort of detergent or with some other special cleaner (I have Googled this and some sites talk about sugar soap- but this might only be on already painter walls). There is a small bit of dust the walls and especially on areas where rough surfaces have ben sanded.
2. Do I need to prime the walls with a special primer?
I have been getting conflicting advice on this- some people say I need to use a special PVA primer while others say a watered down emulsion will do?
3. There are a small number of haircracks above some of the doors. Should i deepen these with a knife and fill with polyfiller or should I leave well enough alone? I am already using polyfiller to patch around sockets.
Any help with these and any volunteers for the job itself would be appreciated!!
I am about to start painting my new house. All interior walls have been skimmed with skimcoat and have been well dried out (over the last two months)
I have three questions:
1. Do I need to clean down the walls- with a dry cloth , with water & some sort of detergent or with some other special cleaner (I have Googled this and some sites talk about sugar soap- but this might only be on already painter walls). There is a small bit of dust the walls and especially on areas where rough surfaces have ben sanded.
2. Do I need to prime the walls with a special primer?
I have been getting conflicting advice on this- some people say I need to use a special PVA primer while others say a watered down emulsion will do?
3. There are a small number of haircracks above some of the doors. Should i deepen these with a knife and fill with polyfiller or should I leave well enough alone? I am already using polyfiller to patch around sockets.
Any help with these and any volunteers for the job itself would be appreciated!!