Is there a guide or standard for the painting of internal house walls, specifically for a hall wall that had a popped nail in the plasterboard which was then repaired and repainted but the whole wall was not painted just 1 metre square ....this extra layer of paint can be seen when walking down the hallway.
Dear Raeline,
I can really understand your enquiry. A few years ago my house flooded and the morons I had for an insurer took the cheap option for all the repairs and that included only painting sections of walls throughout my home, with the same outcome you describe here.
Unfortunately there are really no regulated standards or guides applicable to painting. For this reason painting is among the top 10 consumer complaints that we receive and nearly all relate of course to workmanship or the quality of the finished product.
There is a set of painting standards produced by Standards Australia but they are somewhat complex as they apply to all facets of painting from manufacture, to application and therefore are not referenced in any building legislation or regulation.
The situation you explain is not uncommon. Irrespective of the size of the patch it is extremely difficult to match perfectly the colour and texture of new work to existing without having some form of “border” between the two. The two surface differences will always be exposed, particularly in different lighting configurations.
My only suggestion to overcome the problem is to repaint the whole wall, that way there is no demarcation or border between the old and new work.
Finally the Housing Industry has produced a Guide to materials and workmanship for residential building work. This publication is for use in conjunction with residential building work and is used in situations where there are no designated rules for materials and/or workmanship. It includes a reference to painting work, but I believe it does not directly address your situation.
However under clause 5 it states:
Inspection of defects
Including for fixtures and appliances, the inspection of a surface, material or item is to be viewed or observed from a normal viewing position: being defined as a distance of 1500mm or greater from the observed surface, material or item. Such normal viewing position is to be subject to illumination from a non-critical light source.
For glazing assessment, this should be done in normal daylight conditions and viewed from the interior of the building..
In the definitions of part 5 it describes Critical and Non-critical lighting as follows:
Critical lighting occurs when the projected light is nearly parallel to the wall or
ceiling surface being inspected;
Non-critical lighting occurs when the light that strikes the inspected surface is
diffused and not projected parallel to that surface.
The guide can be purchased from the HIA web site below and is available in either hard copy or electronic format.
http://hia.com.au/store/products.aspx?region=N&category=INDPUBS
I hope this helps.
Kind regards,
Mike