I will NEVER use Acrylic to paint a table top ever again!!!!

[lateral]

I finished making a desk for my home office using a old flush door and decided that I would paint the lot with Acrylic paint.......silly me!

The problem is that almost everything that I place on it "sticks" to the damn painted surface!!!!!

For example, the base plate of my computer screen is stuck hard and needed a lot of force to remove it. If I put something like a plastic covered article it also sticks and marks the paint.

I am assuming that there is no "magic" liquid I can wipe over the acrylic paint to make the "stickiness" go away???

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Regards
Greg

[echnidna]

Put a coat of clear polyurethane over it.
Stick a little bit of white oil paint in the poly first and you won't get a yellowed finish.

[lateral]

Thanks

I am assuming you mean a non acrylic based clear?

Greg

[Harry72]

The acrylic was it a cheap or good brand?

[echnidna]

A turps based clear.
Some of the water clears stay a bit tacky too.

[lateral]

British Paints Gloss Interier Acrylic...

[Harry72]

My and Ian007's uncle seem's to think BP paint is good stuff(err thats Rolf).
Maybe its a crook batch or something... how old is the paint.
The only thing to do is strip it and redo it with different paint, but contact BP and tell them they may even supply some replacement product?

[lateral]

The paint is new. I will contact BP and see what they say.

[workgoose]

More importantly, what was the door painted with before your coat of acrylic? If it was oil based paint that's where your trouble stems from. The only sure way to overcome it now is to give it a good sanding, then use oil based undercoat followed by oilbased satin or gloss enamel, applied with a roller and then lay it off with a good brush.

[lateral]

The door was totally stripped back to bare wood and then undercoat/primer was applied prior to the topcoat....I basically did everything by the book.

[workgoose]

well in that case it must be the paint - it shouldn't be sticky like that.

[lateral]

Yeah, I am going to give British Paints a call ....

Greg