WC wall paint - water marks

[John D.]

Can anyone offer any advice for this?

Water dripping off wet hands are leaving water marks on our nice grey walls.



They've been painted with this:



Ideally I'd like to re-paint in the same colour with a paint that won't show these marks. There's no getting away from the wall getting wet. This problem was not apparent when the wall was white.

Do I need a non-matt paint? Gloss? Can see that being a PITA.

I don't even know what colour it is. The Mrs agreed it originally and I don't understand the codes on the tin!

Walls are plasterboard with MDF tacked on to give a panelling effect.

[rlw]

Try wiping the marks off from time to time. We suffer the same and I've found that a dry cloth on the damp wall takes all the marks out for a few weeks at least.

[Crumpet]

I used that exact paint in a few areas of our house; it’s utter ste! It’s not in the least bit washable.

You probably want some kind of vinyl silk bathroom paint.

If you want it a bit more matt you could try Farrow and Ball’s Modern Emulsion as that’s pretty washable. Little Greene’s equivalent still holds the water marks but is great paint otherwise.

[John D.]

Crumpet said:

I used that exact paint in a few areas of our house; it s utter ste! It s not in the least bit washable.

You probably want some kind of vinyl silk bathroom paint.

If you want it a bit more matt you could try Farrow and Ball s Modern Emulsion as that s pretty washable. Little Greene s equivalent still holds the water marks but is great paint otherwise.

Thanks.

[Pheo]

Something with a sheen is traditional in bathrooms e.g. vinyl silk or whatever, but bear in mind it'll change the look as the reflectance.

Theoretically that should be washable - might be worth giving it a light wash down uniformly before over painting, just to see if you can "even it out". but a Matt paint will always in my experience struggle as it'll want to hold on to things a bit.

I've had good results with Crown Extreme Scrubbable - available on trade from Crown Decorators Centres.

But you might be best switching to a bathroom type paint, they are anti mould normally and a bit shiny so you can wash them down more like a plastic sheet (within reason!)

[Simmos]

Unfortunately, although matt is the best looking finish, the more 'shiny' you go the more wipeable/hard-wearing it is.

if you want the most hardwearing/least shiny, I would recommend acrylic eggshell.

The colour (from your slightly fuzzy picture!) is F&B Cornforth White.

[RGG]

Take a look at Bedec Multi Surface Paint

It's good to go onto emulsion

It comes in matt, satin and gloss

And can be colour matched

[Gtom]

You can get a scrubbable matt paint, Dulux diamond matt is a good one, that should stand up a lot better than normal paint.

[Simmos]

Gtom said:

You can get a scrubbable matt paint, Dulux diamond matt is a good one, that should stand up a lot better than normal paint.

Dulux diamond matt is the equivalent of the Johnstones durable matt the wall is already painted with. They are both class 1 rated.