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We have just bought a second seaside home 8) . The house is circa 1900 and the walls are in a bit of a state! I have spent all weekend trying to cover nicotine stained ceilings and walls with white matt emulsion to little avail. I was snow blind by the end of the day! Anybody got any advice for something that I can do one more coat that will cover well and hide the staining??

 

Angela x

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I agree with Richard you need to apply a paint first that will seal the stain such as the polycell product this is easy to use and comes in an aerosol that is touch dry in 15 mins. It is quite expensive about £15 if I remember right but it will stop the stain coming through again..........Good luck.

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Hi

 

I have spent all weekend trying to cover nicotine stained ceilings and walls with white matt emulsion to little avail.Anybody got any advice for something that I can do one more coat that will cover well and hide the staining??

 

Angela x

 

Black Matt Emulsion? :lol:

Sorry, couldn't resist.

 

The Polycell stuff is really good - we had soot stains coming through a chimney breast, & it stopped those in their tracks.

 

Good luck - sounds like a labour of love

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Nicotine often creates a coating rather than just a stain. You may find you need to remove it before painting because most paint wont stick.

My brothers house was orange (from nicotine) and foam ceiling tiled when they moved in, they had to strip the walls right back before painting.

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Don't envy you that task Angela! Our house was pretty much the same when we moved in. Every time we painted the ceiling the brown stain crept through again. Only answer was to use a stain seal paint first. Worked reasonably well, but never been perfect. On anything else that could take it we used the Fl*sh spray with bleach (ie upvc windows and frames) I can still vividly picture the streams of brown gunk running down the windows! :shock: Good luck with the redecorating! :D

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...you can also use PVA glue mixed with water to seal the stain. My sister did this with nicotine, and I did it with a watermark on our ceiling, and it worked both times - much cheaper than polyseal.

 

They sell tins of PVA for this purpose in B&Q, but I'd go to the Works or another cheap stationers and buy it there.

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I've had to wash all the walls in our en-suite with a PVA solution - when we were painting them the paint came away from the plasterboard - it was something to do with the walls not being dry when they were originally painted. The subsequent later two colours peeled away with it!

 

A quick coat of PVC and the paint's gone on no problem!

 

As for your brother Christian, I hope he doesn't seal the joins with PVA! - still better than Barratt, they just let the leaky joints seal the pipework!

 

A

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