I am a handyman who does small renovations. In my current project I painted a textured ceiling in an older duplex. The old textured ceiling did seem a bit fragile but I painted it with flat latex and it looked fine. today I went back to finish up and found that much of the texture and the new paint had simply fallen off the ceiling and the rest was very fragile and dropped off if touched. My question to anyone who knows is WHY. I did note that the drywall under the texture did not appear to have ever been undercoated. I know that I have to scrape it all off and start over. I plan to scrape prime and paint. Am I missing anything? What went wrong here? I hope some pros can explain this to me. Thanks
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I understand tat the latex paint is the culprit. But I'll see what others say.
Puts a knot in your stomach when you see the peeling doesn't it?
When you say texture, what was it?, what type of texture?
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The duplex is quite old and so is the texture, so I don't know what they used back then. Are we thinking that I should have used an oil base paint rather than latex (which may not have even existed when this was done).
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Edited 5/8/2009 12:30 am ET by Sedna1
The old texture should have been sealed with oil. The water in the latex broke the flimsy bond of the texture.
On occasion the texture is so crappily adheared to the board that even oil rolled on will peel off pcs. or sheets of texture due to the sticky nature of rolled oil.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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