Painting new construction by own effort

Rotband and Uniflott, if you are picky, sand again, primer and paint. I found it quite doable, but I also don't think it's important that the plaster is as smooth as a baby's bottom.

I also experienced that painting twice with cheap (more liquid) paint may be less work than once with better covering, thicker paint.

Our painter is supposed to prime all walls and ceilings and cover them with fleece. He should paint the ground floor and the hallways - but I want to paint the bedrooms upstairs myself. Here are two questions: 1) So far, I have often painted regular wallpaper and claim that I can do that. Does fleece behave differently when painting, or do I need to pay attention to anything specific? 2) The painter usually applies two coats on new fleece. He should do that on the ground floor as well. But is that really necessary - should I expect to paint the bedrooms twice too? The paint used will be Brillux Superlux 3000.

1. no

2. I would paint once and then see how I like the result. The advantage of painting twice is that it can be better repaired or some stains can be removed more easily without it being noticeable. However, this is probably not quite as important for bedrooms.

Now I am mostly finished with the painting and have found that with decent paint (StoColor Rapid, coverage class 1) a single coat on new smooth fleece can already look good - it certainly depends on other conditions, e.g. quality of the fleece, whether the plaster is primed or not... I applied generously and used about 7L of paint (undiluted) for a room of about 18m² (walls and ceilings). If I look closely, I find spots where the coverage is not yet 100%. But to be fair, these are really only isolated spots and you have to be very close to see them - for many probably not a problem, especially in bedrooms or children's rooms, where the walls might need a new coat after some time anyway. But now that everything is nicely masked off, neither floors nor doors are installed, I will push through and do the second coat - this time without ceilings (as I said, the small details can only be seen up close) and I won’t apply it as thickly and will spread the paint over a larger area. This has the advantage with smooth fleece that in the end less roller texture is visible in the paint, and it goes faster.

Here as a supplement again the imperfections that bothered me a little.
From close up - about 20 cm

Further away (about 1 m) it is barely visible anymore


Second example from close up.


Then a little further away:


If I had noticed it only later and all the tape was already removed or the floor was in, I would have just left it as it was; personally, I could have lived well with it.

Almost 0.4... in words zero point four, liters of paint per m²? I painted the stairwell last weekend, that was also about 15, 16m², whereby the drywall was rolled twice, so in the end about 22, 23m². For that I needed about 3 liters...

Keim Innostar.

With opacity class 1 you don't need 0.4 liters of paint per m², half of that is enough.