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Paint refusing to dry!

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Grumpla · 13/01/2011 12:58

Have recently moved and painting a back bedroom. House is mid terrace but this bedroom is out the back (house is L shaped IYKWIM) so has two external walls

Put on two coats yesterday and noticed the far corner (where the two external walls meet) was looking a bit patchy.

Went in this morning to give it another coat and it is still wet in that corner. There are small patches where moisture has trickled down through the paint.

The room had no signs of damp & was not recently redecorated to cover up problems. I've had a look outside and that corner does have a gutter meeting a downpipe on it. No obvious signs of water / algae etc streaking the brickwork though.

I shut the window and heating went off overnight - is there any possibility that this is condensation as a result? I'm guessing it probably is the coldest point in the room as the window is newish double glazed UVPC unit.

I have someone coming on Monday to have a look at the gutter. What should I do in the meantime? Wipe off the watery paint? Get a hairdryer going on it? I was hoping that the room would be habitable by tomorrow!

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Grumpla · 13/01/2011 18:48

Oh no is it cos my topic is soooo boring?

I've had a heater on it today and now seems dry so am going to attempt another coat. Can't look any worse, right!?!

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Wigeon · 13/01/2011 18:52

Had to reply to your thread, didn't want you to think people thought it was like watching paint dry Grin.

Anyway, how recently have you moved in? Was the house unoccupied with the heating off for any length of time before you moved in? When we moved into our house in December 2009 we were shocked to find water running down our bedroom walls - survey hadn't shown up any signs of damp etc. But then someone told me that it was because the house had been unoccupied for 3 months previously and the heating had been off for all that time, and the house was basically taking a while to warm up. Sure enough the water disappeared after not very long at all and there is now no sign it was ever there Smile.

Grumpla · 13/01/2011 20:19

Thanks Wigeon!

Now you come to mention it, although the house was occupied, the radiator in that bedroom was switched off until I started painting yesterday, and it is out on the back bit of the house.

Fingers crossed that's what was causing it and not some scary big problem that only grownups can deal with

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