Concrete Paint
- Thread starter Warstud
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You'll be best served with better prep.
Unless the "wood wall" is something odd, use a good water based primer on it and the dry wall.
If the "ww" is coarse paneling or otherwise sappy, use an alcohol-based primer to kill bleed-through, like Enamelac.
NOTE: Alcohol based means, "shellac". Shellac primers settle, mix it up and use appropriately. Clean up with alcohol and soap&water.
Wire brush the concrete wall. Mix a 3:1 batch of outdoor latex paint : water (thin it down) and prime the concrete with it.
When dry, give it its own coat of your final coat ; which, I assume, is water based.
There's more than one type of "concrete paint". A water based (latex) will likely do ya.
"Epoxy paints" are, in my experience, oil (paint thinner) based. They're good, but often you don't need them.
Select gloss finish for a laundry room.
Unless the "wood wall" is something odd, use a good water based primer on it and the dry wall.
If the "ww" is coarse paneling or otherwise sappy, use an alcohol-based primer to kill bleed-through, like Enamelac.
NOTE: Alcohol based means, "shellac". Shellac primers settle, mix it up and use appropriately. Clean up with alcohol and soap&water.
Wire brush the concrete wall. Mix a 3:1 batch of outdoor latex paint : water (thin it down) and prime the concrete with it.
When dry, give it its own coat of your final coat ; which, I assume, is water based.
There's more than one type of "concrete paint". A water based (latex) will likely do ya.
"Epoxy paints" are, in my experience, oil (paint thinner) based. They're good, but often you don't need them.
Select gloss finish for a laundry room.
What's on the 3 walls presently? If the concrete wall is not coated with anything, I'd buy a can of water based primer for that wall. Then I'd apply a good quality interior water based paint (your chose of sheen) for all the walls. (This is assuming there's a water based paint presently on the wood and drywall wall.) If the wood wall is unfinished, then prime this as well. I don't completely trust "Paint and Primer" paint if you're using it as primer on unfinished walls. A primer's job is adhesion, something which it does thousand times better then "paint and primer" paint, if you follow my thinking...BTW, you need two things for painting. Delegation and motivation. Supervise and if work is not progressing fast enough, that's what the little and big paint sticks are for! 
All will turn out well I'm sure!
All will turn out well I'm sure!
Have you considered wallpapering it?
(joking)
(joking)