How To Paint Ceiling

In the 50s and 60s in the movie were very fond of showing repair. Plump heroine in the picturesque garb splodgy paints with a brush of the bast at the ready, something high-pitched singing, merrily slapping that same brush across the ceiling. In real life thick loud aunt in dirty overalls malyarshi looked not so romantic, and gryazische and destruction in our apartment after they "sweep" of the ceiling (so called in their language training for ceiling work) - and even more so. It turns out that since this process does not change. How to start with a blur of old flooring, and now it all starts. Blur old paint (I mean, of course, whitewash) can with soap and water, ammonia or 3% solution of soda, then washed with clean water ceiling. Old latex paint peels complicated. There is such a method: a damp cloth to steam in a hot iron painted over the place.

(This operation I honest, hard to imagine - I wonder how to contrive to pat the ceiling and not sverzitsya with ladders?) Perhaps it's better to strip off old paint traditional trowel. Stir until pasta sifted chalk, asbestos dust and caustic soda. Then namazhte paste on the ceiling, and half an hour later all this crap (with paint) it is easy to clean off the spatula. All this applies only to the old ceilings in old houses. In the new modern apartments ceiling is simply a concrete surface, which is before the whitewash or paint to prime the long and tedious.

If the ceiling has been prepared, you can work on. And now, here - since my Childhood - a lot has changed. Whitewashed ceilings than before? If you remember, chalk, diluted in water (or as it used to be called - with lime). To chalk when dry, not poured on the head, the whitewash was added PVA glue.