Home DIY

I would've, but the aforementioned partner insists it gets fixed. I have chosen the path of least resistance.
Anybody else?

Put it in the bin, tell her it's fixed.

Tell her to stop arguing or you'll start shitting in the bath.

The answer is normally a big hammer and a nail, but in this case Superglue will do.

I'd have to boil my hands after touching that bit of the toilet.

Bin it.

Coat 2.5.
Pulled some masking tap off to check it worked and all good, although it did rip the paint edge in one place, prob due to it not being 100% dry. Classic impatience.

May need a new roller too, any recs greatly received.

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Pulled some masking tap off to check it worked and all good, although it did rip the paint edge in one place, prob due to it not being 100% dry.

I thought it was best to take masking tape off before it completely dries

Nice pic

Oh strewth, is it? I assumed the other way round, best I go rip it all off...

This. Paint and immediately remove masking.

Argh. Kinda needs one more coat so will wait for after that.

Or paint with undercoat to seal tape then paint over with colour. And make sure you use low tack painters tape. And don’t paint too heavily onto the tape. And practise.

Or just get some other poor sod to do it ;)

I wish I had the money to get someone else to do it! Painting is the hardest trade.

85% standard I’d say. Still needs some touching up and another coat.

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Tbf, that seems such an unforgiving combo of colour and lighting. Full rod for your own back. I'd just paint it all black and wipe shit over the walls but that's just me.

Is that 100% dry?

You could 'reverse' fill the tape (if you didn't do that), like first mask it, paint over the tape with white, let it dry, and then paint with the color – the masking tape is then filled with the white color, and can't fill so much with the other color underneath. We have tried this hack once with white and a greenish color, and it was a little bit better for sure.

Cheers for the tip. Sounds wild, will try on next room.

Yeah, still needs another coat.

Your a rod for my back.

Frog tape is also more than just smoke and mirrors. It has I think some particles in the adhesive that react when they come into contact with water based paints and swell creating a better barrier than just tape and adhesive alone. It's not fool proof, but better than standard tape IME. Although, EVERY time I lie to myself that I am a better painter than I am and don't need to tape....

Yeah I cheaped out. Didn't think it looked too bad though!

Agreed! They also do a low tack version (yellow) which helps avoid ripping paint.

We've used the low tack stuff recently, and its still pulled a load of the paint off. Then again, maybe standard masking tape would be way worse.

I've used it once, and it was OK. Currently trying out the blue 3M stuff for work outside. It is VERY tacky.

At some point I need to box in these corners round concrete pillars, have 8 to do in total and while most are not prominent in the rooms I want to do a reasonable job.
Don’t want to use ply and not a fan of MDF as the edges/joins never look great. MDF was used before when the pipes ran all round the room and it looked terrible.
I could do them in 9mm plasterboard as it’s easy to cut and I have plenty of experience shaping to fit with a sureform to a perfect fit but then I have to corner bead all the joints and skim or fill them. The edges remain crumbly and dusty so a lot of work with this method.
I have some tile backer board that’s easy to cut and trim but it has a waffle texture.
Is there some kind of smooth builders board that’s easy to cut with a knife, and corners can be filled then painted?

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I've done loads of these (sadly). 9mm mdf and sand the edges to 400 grit is the way I've settled on. It does take some work to get a good decorative finish. I glue and screw them together, countersunk screws. Toupret wood filler to cover screws etc.