If you were painting a room white that was magnolia, how many coats would you reckon?

[DonLewis]

I guess it's all in the title!

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Hey, quick reply. I'm upto 2 already. Its not dry and I know you can't tell till it, but it's looking patchy. Was hoping 2 would do it!

Also two. Hopefully it’ll dry ok.

Probably three. White takes ages.

Those wonderful words that my husband loves to hear, "It's going to need another coat."

2, but it does depend on the quality and brand.
Don't stress and let it dry, hopefully it'll be ok, and you'll only need to patch specific parts and not the whole thing.

Very much depends on what white you've bought. I always go Dulux having tried various cheaper options and had it take at least one more coat, often two.

But yes, wait until it's dry first before getting too worried!

Is this during summer or winter?

I've done just that. It took 3 coats of white and 3 top coats of the final colour!

1. No matter what colour I am covering or what the tin says it always takes 3...

Don’t make your decision until it’s dry

Umm I 'd say 3.

I have done a lot of painting recently. Some quick fixes to refresh magnolia/cream walls and ceilings.

The type of paint you are using does make a difference. I started buying some trade paint. It wasn't cheaper than b & q or whatever but certainly covered better.

But yes, still 3 coats with a roller to get a perfect finish. (well, as perfect as an enthusiastic amateur can manage).

I did this, you will need 2/3 coats

Are you using crown?

Wait till it dries, usually coverage is much better once it has dried.

Ah, I typed a long reply last night, but must not have pressed post! Grrr.

We are using Crown. Got up this morning and it's not as patchy, but I can see where the cutting in has been done in parts, especially at the top of the walls. What should I do? Go over just those bits? Another coat all over with cutting in again?

Were not going to stick with white. It's just that we had 2 massive tubs of white paint and we'd removed all of the forniture out of the room I didn't want and it was so tatty I ojldnt look st it. After lockdown we are going to decorate the room properly, I can't decide between wall paper and plain soft furnishings, or plain walls and phenomenal curtains and soft furnishings. The white was so the ceiling wouldn't need doing again, or the wood work. But we may have to look at the white walls for a few months yet.....

God, terrible typing becaus I was rushing. I can spell, honest!

It’s called window paning, floetrol stops it.

I’d just give it up as a bad job now. I hate crown.

I had farrow and ball dining room red (so almost burgandy) in a room and changed it to a pale colour in 2 coats but I m convinced it was the paint that made the difference.
I use colourtrend cermanic Matt and it's the BEST paint ever...I actually 're painted the house since using it and the depth of colour is lovely plus I can still have my farrow and ball colours mixed in the colourtrend base.
Such an easy paint to work with.

so the cutting in bit at the top/corners/bottom etc is whiter than the rest?
best to paint again, but not cut in iyswim.
the cutting in done with a brush puts a thicker layer of paint on than a roller, so 2 roller coats on the wall and 2 brush coats cutting in...the cutting in areas have had loads more paint.
In future (when shops are open) best to use an ultra high opacity matt paint (Johnsons do one) then it should only need one coat.

• disclaimer - i'm not a painter/decorator but learned this the hard way...

Ah, OK. Shit paint, shit job. I think we'll leave it. And get on it with a decent paint once things are more normal.

Thanks all!

It’s been too warm to paint, water based paints dry out too quickly and that’s why you get lapping.

Floetrols £20 but lasts ages and you don’t get any problems like this. You can use it in water based gloss-egg shell too so it doesn’t dry on the brush while your working and it reduces brush marks.

I’m painting the spare room this week, I’m only using wilko best paint but I’ll add floetrol. I actually hate decorating.

Don’t presume everyone lives in the south of England, Fluffy
It’s only been 14 where we are up north.

We’re east mids and it’s been really warm here. It’s cooler today so we’re going to clear out the spare room to paint it.

Dh is shielded and I don’t think I’m going to be able to sleep in my own bedroom till Christmas the way it’s going.

Deep joy 😭

6 months ago I had my staircase and hallway done in white over magnolia. I paid a professional decorator to do it and he supplied all the paint. It took just one coat, and looks a good job.