So, you may have been wondering what's been going on that's so important the blog hasn't been updated for days. In short, life. More specifically, the hellish purgatory of the Groundhog Day that is the kitchen ceiling. Looks like this:
Step 1. Wash.
Step 2. Paint. Grease comes through.
Step 3. Paint. Grease still coming through.
Step 4. PVA.
Step 5. PVA.
Step 6. Paint test patch. Grease comes through.
Step 7. Soak ceiling with water. Scrape off paint, PVA, decades of stinking orange grease and horrible popcorn texture into a soggy rain of squishy flakes of stinking doom. Note: this is for masochists who enjoy sore shoulders, wrist sprains and disgusting crap landing in their hair and inside their clothes despite all precautions. 3 days of my life I can never get back.
Step 8. Wash.
Step 9. Wash.
Step 10. I may wash one more time.
Then my plan is:
Step 11. Size (prep paste for wallpaper)
Step 12. Wallpaper a test area. If minimal grease appears, proceed.
Step 13. Paint with kitchen paint.
Step 14. Paint with kitchen paint.
If grease appears through the lining paper I will switch to vinyl textured paper.
Masochists please note: it's best to prep walls before the ceiling is finished. That way you can do the walls twice...!!!
