Cover new drywall area.

We recently enclosed a doorway with drywall, after sanding we painted the whole wall with primer. We painted the entire wall with two coats but when the light hits it just right you can see the outline of the old doorway. How do we fix this?

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Bathroom fixed with drywall.

Bathroom was painted with a semigloss paint about 5 years ago. I had some places on the walls fixed with drywall. Now I need to know; do I primer the whole bathroom or just the spots I fixed?

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Cracks in Ceiling

My home was repainted 4 yrs ago. I have noticed cracks in the bedroom ceiling where it meets the wall. This only happened to the wall where both window are.

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Chipped Bullnose Corners

Numerous spots in our home has the bull-nose metal showing (wall corners and windows sills, etc). How do I prep/re-paint those area? We have the ‘orange-peel’ texture on our walls as well. Thanks!

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Crackin plaster / paint

We moved into our house nearly 2 years ago. It had a damp problem but the previous owners had a damp proof course put in before we moved in and we were given a 10 year guarantee cert. The walls after the damp proof course had been re-plastered. So on

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Chipping Paint

I just had the interior of my house painted 6 months ago. Although the paint on the walls still looks good, the paint by the edges of doors, arches are peeling off. I bought a plastic protector to protect the edges from further peeling but it didn’t work since paint

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Ceiling Paint Peeling Down to Drywall

A few years ago we had a water line break on the 2nd story and had to repaint a large part of our 1st floor ceilings. Now repainted the ceiling areas and they are peeling all the way to the drywall paper. Unpainted areas are fine. Did contractor potentially paint

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Compounded areas bleeding through paint.

I am an experienced contractor and painter and have come across this dilemma more than once in my life time. Recently I did a renovation with about 60 boards of drywall. After taping and sanding I primed it with Zinsser 123 primer. After priming I lightly sanded the walls with

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Ceiling Painting Problems

I didn’t follow any of the rules of ceiling painting and now have a mess after paying almost $500 to have the knock down texture blown on the ceiling. I have roller lines and it seems to have picked up the squares of the 2X6 beams also so I have

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