Using Gloss paint when stenciling can create big mess thoughts/help?!
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Ann M
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Just this week I decided to paint my bedroom SW Portabello. A dark brown. With the white comforter, dresser and woodwork I thought it would work together well. I have always wanted to do a tone on tone look using a gloss paint over a matte finish when using a stencil. I wanted a scroll look and finally ordered one on line.
I went ahead and painted the room. I ordered a quart of gloss Porta Ella and began stenciling using a foam roller. Everything was going well until I noticed that the paint was clogging up some of the smaller lines of the stencil to the point where the paint was not even getting through to the wall. I took the stencil into the sink in the laundry room and began using soap and warm water to clean the stencil. The paint wouldn't even budge. Nope not even from my hands. I placed it on an old towel to work on and now it picked up all the towel fuzz. I tried cooking oil, which works really well on oil paint removal but that didn't work either. Knowing I had no mineral spirits I got out nail polish remover. It cleaned most of the paint off my hands but hardly any from the stencil. So now I take a paint scraper and I'm scraping this built up paint off and it's flying all over the place. Fed up with the fuzz from the towel I place it directly on the white washer top to continue scraping. Back in the hot soapy water it goes, not even making a small dent in dislodging the paint from the stencil openings. But now I glance over and I have a stencil imprint on my washer. So for the next 30 minutes I'm scrubbing that with nail polish remover. It did all come off. By now I am so done with all this but I still had about 6 more squares to go. I took it out of the water, using another old towel to dry it. Paper towels kept sticking to it when I tried drying it with those. So back I go to finish and basically finish up by using the sections of the stencil that wasn't plugged. Funny it doesn't look too bad. I took that stencil and threw it right in the trash. I never want to see that thing again. Now back to clean up the laundry room with all the paint flecks everywhere. And now there's a brown stain in the bottom of the sink that I couldn't remove.
So, no gloss paint? Or no roller? Why was this so hard to remove even from my hands? What a mess!
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I'm so sorry that this happened to you but I can't help but laugh out loud! I've had similar difficulties and, trust me, I understand your frustration. Did you turn the sky blue? I would have!
Was all the paint latex? Did you use an enamel as the gloss paint..
I have used gloss over matte and it turned out nicely. In fact I have a high boy that I am doing in black matte then gloss with a stencil.
I can not figure out why it would not work for you. I have never used a roller..I use a foam sponge.
Yes it was all latex. That's why it was so confusing! It was a foam roller but maybe that was the problem. Still can't figure why it was so difficult to clean up too.
Thanks for responding.
When I told my husband of my adventure he laughed out loud too so I then had to join in!
But believe me when I say there was everything but laughter going on during this catastrophe! Glad to know there are others that have difficult DIY's!
Thanks for responding!
I've been wanting to do a dresser in matte black with black gloss stenciled over. I'm still laughing about your experience and relieved that it wasn't a total loss. We Diy'ers sure know how to entertain ourselves don't we? I'll let you know how mine turns out.
I have a feeling oil paint was used over a latex wall. This is OK, but sometimes is hard to use with a roller. Now however there will be more trouble if a water base paint is painted over the spots on the wall where there is oil base paint should you want to paint over the stenciled areas. This can cause peeling in those areas. What I don't understand is why you did't use a water based paint in gloss instead of oil based. I have done this and the effect is very nice, just remember to use the same types of paint.
No it was gloss latex painted over flat latex. I bought both at S W. only ordered a quart of gloss for the stenciling.
Thats what confuses me. No oil involved.
check the product again....are you sure they pulled the correct product? not being able to wash your hands and get the paint off tells me it was probably oil based.
was the product properly shaken at the store?
It's marked as latex and it was shaken. Maybe it was mislabeled in production.