I'll be painting my bathroom ceiling this weekend and I'm after a few opinions. 

 

After plastering everywhere in my place I usually mist coat with contract matt and then a heavy coat of contract to act as a type of filler-paint, filling in small imperfections that I get in my admittedly just above average skim. I then sand this back before my final 2 coats of vinyl, a technique I got from @Nickfromwales and it's worked great for me.

 

My question is, what's everyone's favourite bathroom ceiling paint, I've been looking at Zinsser Permawhite. And will I be ok to do my usual contract matt-pole sander-topcoat technique in the bathroom?

I used the zinzer perma white, no complaints so far. 
make sure you properly dust down that contract shite. 

1 hour ago, Super_Paulie said:

I'll be painting my bathroom ceiling this weekend and I'm after a few opinions. 

 

After plastering everywhere in my place I usually mist coat with contract matt and then a heavy coat of contract to act as a type of filler-paint, filling in small imperfections that I get in my admittedly just above average skim. I then sand this back before my final 2 coats of vinyl, a technique I got from @Nickfromwales and it's worked great for me.

 

My question is, what's everyone's favourite bathroom ceiling paint, I've been looking at Zinsser Permawhite. And will I be ok to do my usual contract matt-pole sander-topcoat technique in the bathroom?

I just Dulux trade white. 5 years on all good, did all painting with it, one coat 50:50 with water, then two coats full strength.

Id only be using contact matt for it's filling and sanding qualities, that'd be ok as an undercoat in the bathroom, right?

19 hours ago, Super_Paulie said:

Id only be using contact matt for it's filling and sanding qualities, that'd be ok as an undercoat in the bathroom, right?

It’s what I do / have done, in every single kitchen and bathroom job I’ve ever done. Dulux Diamond for the finish stuff in kitchens for most folk, or appropriate bathroom paint from whoever. 
 

2 coats on brand new plaster in the same day, and customers think I’ve gone the whole 9 yards.

 

Contract stuff is fine to leave on ceilings, but it isn’t very good on walls as it’s quite chalky and doesn’t wipe at all well.

 

I use it sacrificially, for obliteration, and as above for use as a paint-come-filler for the very minor imperfections that you cannot see with the eye (until you pole sand lightly to show any defects).

 

You must leave this to go bone dry before sanding, and I only say to dilute 10% water if spraying; current client is about to go full on Picasso and that’s the instructions for dilution from Wagner.

 

Depends on how fussy you are whether you pole sand ceilings, or not, but my go-to plasterer is on site atm and he is shit hot, so very little needs doing tbh; he’s incredibly fussy in corners etc, and is pretty much the best plasterer I know or have ever met. If the plasterer is of ‘lesser finesse’ then you’ll have it “all to do” downstream and will soon regret not getting someone better. 

He’s Coventry based, and if anyone needs (wants) an exceptionally good spread then PM me for his contact details. He’s also an excellent external renderer, and does micro-cement and Venetian (etc) plasterwork. He has pics of some of the jobs he’s done and it’ll blow you away!
 

Tres bien 

 

It’s all in the finish folks, and you’ll be staring at it in every room for the next couple of decades or more, and if that’s not right then what was the point in getting everything else behind it A1?  

i pole sanded my ceilings and walls and quite often i dab on a bit of thick contract where there may be a little nick or divot and then just flat that back once dry. I find that works way better than any filler and it sands like its not even there with a sanding sponge.

Ok thats what i'll do in the bathroom as well then, then cover in Diamon or more likely the Zinsser. I did my plastering in the bathroom as its only small so im ok to smother that in contract to fill it bits i may have left a bit rough. Cheers lads.

Zinsser fixed a problem we had with peeling paint over a shower. Wouldnt use anything else now.