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<\/a><\/p>\nI had no choice but to go all round and reattach the sheets that had fallen off and check that the ones that hadn’t were still attached securely enough for when I started spraying as evidently the glue on the strip that attaches the paper to the surface to be masked off was just not up to the job. I suspected as much when I’d spotted some already beginning to fall off when I left last night.<\/p>\n After dealing with the masking paper I then went all round and rubbed all the walls down yet again. I’d noticed that there were some areas with a texture like sandpaper, mainly high up near the coving but some also lower down, and then made sure that all the dust created was swept away from the base of the walls. Then it was time to think about painting.<\/p>\n I’d originally bought two 2.5 litre tubs of Olive Green satin from Brico Depot and had then increased that to three. Having seen how much paint I’d used so far I decided that this would not be enough for the area I planned to spray which I’d estimated at around 65 square metres, and as I didn’t want to have to stop half-way through, I decided to make yet another unscheduled trip to Brico Depot to pick up two more tubs.<\/p>\n And lucky I did, because I ended up with exactly the amount of paint that I needed for the job. I was all ready to get going as soon as I returned but yet again some of the masking paper was already in the process of detaching itself and again needed attention to get it back in place again before I could do anything else.<\/p>\n I planned to make the green lighter by adding some white paint to it and had already bought a tub of ‘cheapo’ white paint from Leroy Merlin on one of my previous visits there. I’d bought some new plastic buckets from Brico Depot to mix paint in and a rotary paint mixer yesterday from Brico Jem in Rouffignac so now was the time to get the job done.<\/p>\n Unfortunately it started badly with a large leak from around the spray gun nozzle which made the customary mess on the floor at the far end of the corridor but this was rectified, thank goodness, when I tightened the securing nut further.<\/p>\n Spraying in the corridor was a nightmare as it had been before because you can’t easily get far enough away from the wall. It’s also dark up there with all the doors closed and masked so it’s hard to see what you’re doing and easy to get runs which I mostly managed to avoid this time. The pressure tube also has a habit of coiling itself and then hitting against the wall that you’ve just painted which is very annoying to say the least.<\/p>\n Painting the walls in the living room was much easier and although the masking paper proved far from reliable I at last managed to get all of the living room and corridor walls painted. By this time it was already becoming a bit dark for photographs and in any case my main priority was tying to get everything cleaned up. This green paint proved to be particularly difficult and intractable to remove as it seems to dry with a kind of plastic film on its surface and I had to do the best that I could to make sure that my spray machine was as clean as I could get it before doing anything else.<\/p>\n It was hard to tell in the light available by that time how well the job had turned out. At first glance it didn’t look too bad and the small amounts of overspray that managed to find their way onto the ceiling past the bits of masking paper that gave up during spraying will not be an issue. However, I won’t be able to tell for sure until tomorrow in the daylight.<\/p>\n If things have turned out OK, tomorrow I’ll at last be able to remove all the masking from around the windows and doors in readiness for doing the ceiling, which will require new vertical masking all round from along the bottom edge of the coving. With a bit of luck I might even be able to get the ceiling done tomorrow which would be an enormous leap forward. There may be a few areas of wall that will need touching up but I have enough paint left over to do that with a roller and that could also be left until the ceilings are done, which is actually the bigger priority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I went into the house this morning all fired up ready to start painting the walls in the living room and corridor. 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