How many coats for good coverage?

So our walls were covered with wallpaper and then painted twice. Every evening on the construction site we saw a difference. When you walk through new houses with a keen eye, you quickly notice the details. And it's really a shame when the corners and edges were "brushed" and the "rest" rolled: you can see that a second coat of paint would have been appropriate...

All ceilings, both concrete on the ground floor and Farmacell on the upper floor, we have already outsourced. We will do the rest ourselves. Currently, the plan is to divide it a bit. Living rooms and hallways are to get fleece which we will then paint with dispersion paint. Utility room, bathrooms, and kitchen are to get silicate paint directly on the plaster. Has anyone used latex paint as an alternative there?

[pQUOTE="Nordlys, post: 299271, member: 32530"]purple or blue, yellow is sufficient because UV resistance is not important inside. Tesa, 3m, Storch[/QUOTE]

Have you ever held the purple Storch in your hand? Very thin, yet still stable, and that is what matters with color transitions over surfaces. Besides, it is gentle when applied to existing surfaces.

True primer paint is bonding primer with pigmentation

Utility room, bathrooms, and the kitchen should get silicate paint directly on the plaster. Has anyone used latex paint as an alternative?

Yes. We did. My brother brought latex from the company Sto. I think it is called Stocryl. It worked well. All bathrooms, utility room, kitchen with it.

Yes. We did. My brother brought latex from the company Sto. I think it’s called Stocryl. Worked well. Used it in all bathrooms, utility room, kitchen.

At 13-17€ per liter not exactly cheap either, but he probably got a better price there. You don’t usually repaint something like that every year.

Did you paint the color directly onto the plaster?

Yes and no. First we filled the plaster, then sanded it, then sprayed it with primer, then applied two coats on the ceiling, covered the walls with fiberglass, then two coats. Utility room walls without fiberglass, as they are applied directly on the smoothed and primer-impregnated plaster. He is a master painter and I do exactly as he says it needs to be done. And the result is great; other new buildings have significantly worse painting work than we do. Why latex? Well, it’s actually an acrylic paint; real latex made from rubber milk, I don’t think it exists anymore. We wanted similarly durable and washable surfaces like tiles, which you achieve with Stocryl. The paint only shines very slightly, the old greasy latex feeling is gone. I wanted the fiberglass on the wall because I like the texture; everything smooth is boring. The stuff is called Stotex. Very sturdy. K.