Plastering & Rendering

White paint as basecoat straight onto plaster (instead of diluted 'mist' coat)

Anonymous user 01/03/2024 - 2.48 PM

We have recently had our bedroom replastered, and have painted white paint directly onto the plaster as the basecoat. We have now just been told that this should have been a thinner paint as the basecoat e.g. watered down/diluted paint, to allow it to properly soak into the plaster before drying. Now we're worried that, when we paint a colour over the top, it will eventually flake and crack due to not having a proper, thin basecoat underneath. Is there anything we can do at this stage to rectify this, before we proceed with the colour? We're really annoyed with ourselves for making such a simple mistake after paying to get the whole room replastered, and hope there's a (ideally not too expensive!) way to fix this now! Any help and advice would be much appreciated. Thank you!