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Timmy2wheels
Pro-Am decorators. Have I got my scheduling right?
1. Remove handles and shit
2. Sand down all woodwork and wipe clean
3. 1st coat ceiling, then walls (do clean walls and ceiling need any prep, e.g. wipe with sugar soap?)
4. 1st coat oil eggshell woodwork
5. 2nd coat ceiling
6. Light sand woodwork
7. 2nd coat walls
8. 2nd coat woodwork
9. Replace ironmongery
10. trauma-related alcohol binge
Also, we are eventually going to have the floor sanded and hard-wax-oiled. Will that fuck the decorating?

Fanks.

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Airhead in reply to @Timmy2wheels

You have that pretty much right. Start the alcohol binge much earlier in the process though.

You should definitely wash the walls and ceiling with sugar soap. Why oil based eggshell? The acrylic is pretty durable these days and far less a pain in the ass. Woodwork needs a primer/undercoat maybe 2 depending.

Your future floor work may screw with your woodwork depending on how carefully it's done.

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Timmy2wheels in reply to @Airhead

Massively delayed response - but thanks. I really did not like the acrylic eggshell I used when last decorating (Little Greene's Intelligent Eggshell); great going on and in the clean-up, but durability not a patch on oil IMO; marked really easily. Now using LG's Flat Oil Eggshell and it paints and smells like gloss paint should. Lovely finish, too.

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