Decorating for shafts of Sunlight

[scottishjohn]

19 hours ago, Nickfromwales said:

Pole sanding will be your friend. 
 

Apply about 5 generous coats of Leyland high opacity Matt white paint and leave to dry for a week. 
 

Then when you sand, the paint acts as a surface filler. 
 

You’ll almost instantly see plaster pop through here and there, where the highest of high points are, and you just then avoid those thereafter.

 

The more you repeat this process, the better it’ll get. 
 

Don’t sand in one place, you need to do long random strokes.

 

Good news is you only really see this where the sun is an enemy and not a friend. 

we used to use spray can matt black  when going filler jobs on cars  trying to get large panels flat 

 

just half a mist  then a gentle flat with a long bed sander --longer than a pole sander  if you can  if its flat you want

 

 you ,ll soon see everywhere that needs filling 

 

 no body does much in repairing panels now  --same problem no skilled staffand insurance  don,t want to pay  

no door skins fitted now --new doors --same reason 

 

 I suppose my claim to fame  in painting was the customer  who complained that  back to bare metal the paint job on his rotten  old  silver shadow was too shiny 

 

 RR panels are never straight thats why they use lots of lead filler    and need 20+coats of cellulose  from factory  

 

 he took it to derby to get some mechanicals done and they chipped the door where the two tone   join was

 they rang me up and I gave them the colour codes and offerd them the paint I had left over from the job

"we don,t want that we want you to quote us to repair  it "

 

needless to say I hit them hard  for what was a half days job,

 "when you see a stick --cut it" as they say round here 

 I never made money on full job ,as I underestimated the work --    It was 1980 - £5000 for  main job

RR quote_ hit with £500  for the minor repair 

 

 

 

 

[Oz07]

Been gym tonight not as bad there

[Nickfromwales]

2 minutes ago, Oz07 said:

Been gym tonight not as bad there

That looks to have been taped and jointed vs skimmed? 

[Oz07]

Dunno wasn't there when it was built. Probably skimmed but with tapered edge boards else the flats of boards wouldn't look so wobbly?