Hey all!
First time poster here, and first time decorating a house top to bottom myself alongside my partner. We recently purchased a 1890's mid-terraced property in which the previous owners smoked for some time.
We've given everything an aggressive sugar soaping, sanding and wipe down. There's not really any stains left to block, but there's still a slight odour. We decided to go with a coat of Zinsser BIN to help seal the odour, and help our paint adhere nicely to the old existing paint.
As mentioned neither of us are seasoned decorators, so we've done some research and after all the cleaning, scrubbing, sanding and wiping we've applied a coat of BIN to the landing area. We can still see some of the previous paint through the first coast BIN, see pics (not best quality, lighting was very poor, but hopefully they highlight my concern. Note these pics were taken maybe 30 mins after applying the BIN). My questions are this:
Have we applied too fine of a coat of BIN? Will this cause us issue when we come to apply our top coats? Should we slap on another coat of BIN, or will 2, maybe 3 coats of our final paint be fine? We do intend to give the bin a quick once over with a fine grade sand paper, likely 80.
Any help, advice and experience greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Meldj
