Cementing Basement Walls

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by glatt

It looks like you painted graffiti on the wall and then tried to paint over just the graffiti and/or strip just the graffiti.

First of all, we realize it was a mistake. The only reason the graffiti paint was applied is because it was water soluble and we successfully washed if off when we test it out. It was obviously a very stupid mistake and we take responsibility for it and are trying to find the most reasonable solution to fix it.

So yes, all we did at this point was cover the graffiti. It was an initial first step to cover it up. I emailed him last week telling him what we did and that he should come over so we can discuss what steps we should take next, if any. If he wants us to paint the entire basement, we would paint the entire basement. If he wants us to parge the walls, we would. He has not taken up the response. Our latest water bill had four months that we already paid attached to it so I have a very strong feeling he is going to try to fuck us and not work with us to fix this problem.

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Edit to add: Regardless of how it got that way, I think a far better solution than cementing over it is to just give it a new uniform coat of paint. Get an outdoor paint (the kind meant for cement/industrial floors) in a shade of cement gray, and do it right.

He said we had to cement it over unfortunately. I was hoping we could just paint the entire basement, we have helped painted a friend's apartment before with very good results, but apparently not.

As I said, I don't know anything about this so I'm trying to gain as much information about it as possible right now.