wobblycogs
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Sorry, not quite your usual woodworking question but...
After much work fixing our old house I'm finally in the position where I need to start glossing the vast areas of woodwork (doors, skirting, picture rails, dados, etc - the list goes on forever) this place seems to have. In the past I've always used non-drip gloss but I've never been completely happy with the finish, it seems to lack whiteness, not dry to a mirror finish and at least appear to be a very thick coat of paint.
So, last time I needed some gloss I bought a can of Dulux professional liquid gloss to give that a go. The finish is amazing, extremely white and mirror like in apperance. After it's been on for a while it's also surprisingly tough which is good when you've got kids ramming toys into the skirting all the time!
The problem I'm having though is that it's a real chore to apply to mouldings and other bits of fiddly woodwork. It's like trying to paint glass with water! To stop it beading up in sharp internal corners of mouldings I have to brush it out so thinly that I end up applying multiple coats but even then the sharp external corners still show through in places. Clearly I'm doing something wrong but I can't figure out what. Can anyone help?
Cheers
After much work fixing our old house I'm finally in the position where I need to start glossing the vast areas of woodwork (doors, skirting, picture rails, dados, etc - the list goes on forever) this place seems to have. In the past I've always used non-drip gloss but I've never been completely happy with the finish, it seems to lack whiteness, not dry to a mirror finish and at least appear to be a very thick coat of paint.
So, last time I needed some gloss I bought a can of Dulux professional liquid gloss to give that a go. The finish is amazing, extremely white and mirror like in apperance. After it's been on for a while it's also surprisingly tough which is good when you've got kids ramming toys into the skirting all the time!
The problem I'm having though is that it's a real chore to apply to mouldings and other bits of fiddly woodwork. It's like trying to paint glass with water! To stop it beading up in sharp internal corners of mouldings I have to brush it out so thinly that I end up applying multiple coats but even then the sharp external corners still show through in places. Clearly I'm doing something wrong but I can't figure out what. Can anyone help?
Cheers