Painting breeze blocks...what next?

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Yay! Finally a homeowner again. First job...sort the garage out! Joking aside, it's empty at the moment so now is the time to paint it, get the floor down, and sort the doors out too.

We've done three coats of Sandtex masonry paint onto the blockwork...it's been fairly diluted, and as expected the blocks have sucked up a lot of paint. It currently looks like this...what's the best next course of action?

A neat coat? Electric sprayer? Some PVA? Or is this really as good as I am going to get it. I'm leaning towards a neat coat, but pleased to take any advice!

Thanks!

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Lotobear said:

Not a paint grade block so you it will always be hard work and involve many coats and much 'stippling'

^This, I think!

I tried a coat of brushed "neat" but I was going through paint at an alarming rate for not much return TBH. I gave up and went for another diluted rolled coat, and to be honest I think it will do for now.

On my previous house, I plasterboarded the garage and painted it light grey and it looked amazing. Of course, as soon as it had shelves hiding a lot of it, the inevitable dents/knocks, it started to look a bit crap...and if I ever put the Defender in there to work on, it always used to repaint areas "splatty exhaust carbon black" so I think I just need to remember it's a garage and be happy with a brighter white finish for dust/light purposes, rather than a perfect finish!

Thanks all!