Can i emulsion over gloss paint

It is sold as a coloured liquid to see where you have been and not. I imagine that you wish the skirting board and dado rail to be the same colour as your walls, however using emulsion paint will not provide sufficient protection from any knocks or scrapes and you may soon find the room looking tired and in need of repainting.

If you take your emulsion paint to the store they may be able to use the paint code to produce an exact match. This will produce a much harder wearing paint that I have used for woodwork, although it will have a slightly higher sheen than the original emulsion. The most important thing is to ensure the surface is well prepared — as previously stated — I would then apply an oil based undercoat to seal the wood and sand lightly grit paper — sanding pad is even better before applying the top coat.

Thanks everyone! We actually want to paint the woodword lighter than the walls, so we were thinking of mixing the emulsion we have got with some white we have left over, but we also have half a tin of white gloss, so it is possible to mix gloss and emulsion to make a tougher than emulsion paint? You can't mix Gloss and Emulsion, Gloss is oil based and Emulsion is water based.

The finish will be poor. To be fair it may be waterbased gloss if you read the back of the respective tins it will tell you if you wash the brushes in water.

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. El sabio muda el consejo, el necio no. I did a room with emulsion all over. The wood work took a few coats but the effect is great. Merben Property Maintenance. As second method would be to clean all the surfaces with sugar soap to ensure the area is clean and grease free. You can then use a Super Grip primer on the surfaces and allow to fully dry. Once this has dried you will be able to paint over the surface as normal.

IFG Renovations. As above, a good sand to the surface and emulsion will key to the gloss or another option is to use zinsser bin as undercoat. You just apply one coat of zinsser bin no sanding required and then you can apply the emulsion. Please could someone let me know how to cover gloss paint with emulsion While painting my door frames i have gotten some gloss on I have recently moving house and to tidy the house up it looks like the previous owners painted all the rooms with white emulsion