Decorating

[jennyjoan]

Well decorator was to finish today but yesterday (Thursday) told me he would be here today (Friday) around 1.00pm.

Waited 1, 2, 3, 4 and quarter to 5 here he comes.

He is so pleasant and I pretended to box him as he was coming in. You couldn't get angry with him.

His wife is preggers and she took niggly pains which they were both worried about and went to hospital. After hospital he brought wife home and then came to me.

He still has to finish off some small jobs (when he can fit me in). Sometime. God knows - however to "a blind man on a horse" - it all looks done well the paintwork that is.

Now i have to clear out mats, and get ready for new carpet coming.

[jennyjoan]

It has been a very long time since I painted. My lovely decorator can't come back to me until September so I am going to tackle living room myself. Will leave ceiling as too much. Will leave that to the decorator

What I want to know - do you gloss the doors down first and emulsion your walls secondly or other way round.

I couldn't wait until Sept as I am buying a new suite (it is picked and all) so want to get that in situ

Tips would be grateful and thanks for your replies.

[Islay]

Walls first and then gloss - or at least that is how I have always done it.
But the bigger issue here is the way you are letting your decorator walk out not completing the job, you should have insisted that it was not acceptable!

[waterboatman]

Emulsion first, gloss last.

[theshedman]

Ceiling should be first, then walls and finally the woodwork. As a decorator I wouldn't want to come back to do a ceiling as the chances are some would go on the walls however good a painter you are.