My new garage build thread - making a stand.

2.5mm should produce a good flow even with 'semi' thinned paint. I've done set builds with a std 1.8 / 2mm nozzle lobbing emulsion onto ABS sheet, took less than four hours to do the same square area as four or more people with rollers used to take two days to cover.

I've got to do my 'new' unit before I move in over the next couple of weeks, my turn to do a garage 'build' I guess. Just have to wait and see how bad it actually is when the current occupants move out. I'm swapping with a stonemason who needs to expand his business and i'm getting a lockable gated yard thrown in as a 'thank you'.

Its looking good now, its great when you pay people to do stuff like this as it happens a lot quicker than DIY, that's as long as you have a decent builder and yours seems to be doing OK!

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very smart

Looks great.

I sprayed my garage with masonry paint when I moved in. I think i ended up at something like 50 / 50 paint to water to get it thinned enough to spray properly. It took a couple of coats but did make a big difference in covering all the pores in the block walls which is a mare with a roller.

I think i did 2 coats but 3 or 4 would have probably been better. Or a couple of sprays followed by a roller top coat.

A tip I was given, many years ago, when spraying paint that shouldn’t have really been applied that way was: “get it roughly the consistency of milk”.

I did think of using milk but it tends to smell when dry and does not really make the walls very white.

So.....I thinned the paint by just chucking around 50% water in the tin (it was less than half full) and giving it a damn good shake. Opened it up and it was like milk - but did not taste like milk though so resisted the temptation of putting it in my tea.

Sprayed the wall with it until the paint ran out.



Then moved on to doing the roof joists, borrowed the Mrs soup ladle, pyrex mixing jug and a serving spoon from the kitchen and proceed to mix up 50/50 emulsion & warm water mix. Chucked it in my big JGA gun and sprayed all of the joists. Worked well but has also covered everything in emulsion paint splatter Think I'll carry on with the joists being sprayed but might roller the flat roof panels.

Should you not have painted the Fascia boards before fitting the gutters?

Also, you might want to consider some line drainage to a soak away in front of the doors? They only cost around £12 per metre so you would only need 3 really?