Lady hired me to paint her bathroom.
Paints peeling a litle here and there. I take down the towel bar and grab onto the paint. I peel off a 18″ streak. One peel was as big as a sheet of news paper. I been scraping it off like old farm house exterior paint with a putty knife.
Looks like the paint only adheres to the mud not the dw paper. Bottom layer of paint is white. What’s the chance junior used paint instead of dw sealer? Perhaps it was too hot when it went on.
Any thoughts? I sure don’t want to put a dw sealer on there and do this again! There’s the primer coat. Somebody done a blotchy sponge deal in read and blue. There was a coat or two of SW classic 99 flat on top that. In my mind, that’s not too many layers.
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Outside wall only?
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
Quittin' Time
No, it's not just the outside walls. It's the whole house. I don't think this house is over 15 years old.Big Macs - 99 cents
Saw this once quite a few years ago, also in a bathroom
Best we could figure out it was latex applied over oil with absolutely no surface prep,
striped the paint (a relatively easy job given the situation),sanded the walls, used high adherance Benjamin Moore primer (Fresh start they call it now), and ..........also cleaned and serviced the dysfunctional and "never been cleaned before" exhaust fan.
Maybe it's just me, but I've noticed there is at least some correlation between the cleanliness of the exhaust fan and the state of bathroom paint. Get enuf dust in em and they just don't work at all.
Eric
in Calgary
Maybe that's why she hired you to paint?
She wanted a fixed priced contract. I told her it was too much risk and I was passing. But she likes my work.
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She wanted a fixed priced contract. I told her it was too much risk and I was passing. But she likes my work.
Don't blame her, but you can always give her the worst case scenario assuming you have to strip the joint down, seal the DW and then paint. If it should happen faster, give her a break and make a friend for life.
I've seen this also and I asked the "old guy" at my paint store about it. He said that years ago when latex paint wasn't as good that it would lose it's ability to adhere if exposed to high humidity. Most especially if a primer was not used.
I removed as much as I could without too much effort, feathered the edges with joint compound, primed and painted. It was easier to strip off than I expected because so much of it came off in large sheets. The final paint job came out fine.
-Don