Friday, February 26, 2010

I'm painting on a wall that has drywall patches all over, but the patch spots show through the paint?

We had to patch the walls because of holes and cracks in the wall. This was a month ago maybe, now we are ready to paint the room. We put on 2 coats of primer last weekend and today we tried to paint the room, but the drywall patches show through the paint. The patches, when they are painted over, come out darker than the coat of paint around them. How do we fix this?!!!I'm painting on a wall that has drywall patches all over, but the patch spots show through the paint?
Sounds like you may need to sand it and orime it ago with a very good brand of primerI'm painting on a wall that has drywall patches all over, but the patch spots show through the paint?
Had the same problem with a bath and hall walls...what primer are you using? The only thing that worked for me was to prime the whole wall with Kilz2 for any areas that I patched. The patched areas suck up the paint differently so you need to prime seal the whole wall to prevent flashing or dead spots. Regular primer does not always work. Tough lesson to learn after putting on three coats already.
Did you sand down the drywall patches? After you mudded them?
paper it first with ling paper makes a nice texture as well

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