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PVA on new plasterboarded and skimmed walls

Anonymous user 03/03/2024 - 3.04 PM

I got mixed up with my buckets. Instead of putting a 50/50 mist coat on the walls, I put 50 50 PVA on. I know I cannot paper for 6 months (that is what I have been told) but will the PVA cause problems if I put silk paint on the walls in the mean time?

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2 Answers

T J Hubble

Rating: 5 out of 5

Sittingbourne

6 months is a long time , just hope it had dried out before you put pva on it. I would not paint the walls with anything on top of the pva. It's good you are wallpapering, if painting you would have to sand the pva off the walls - hell of a job - probably easier to skim everything again. Good luck

Answered29 December 2013

Anonymous user

cross line them and paper it now you wont have a problem

Answered16 January 2014