No not mine.
Good friend of ours just recently bought a house that was freshly painted as part of the ‘sprucing it up to sell’ thing.
They’ve been in the house 2 months and the paint in the interior is peeling off in great big chunks!
The person who sold them the house lives next door and is pissed as she says she pay’d ‘a lot’ of money for a quality interior paint job. The seller had the painter over to look at it (as the job is still under warrenty) and this is what he proposed.
He wants to just cover everything with a ‘quality oil based primer’ and then repaint. He admits that he used a latex paint over the existing gloss oil base coat when he initially did the job.
For a pro I think he f’d up pretty obviously. He didn’t cut the gloss at all (I can tell this as when I peel up the latex the paint underneath is still nice and shiney) before he through up that ‘high quality’ latex paint job.
Whats the right way to fix this? It doesn’t seem to me that just slapping on another coat of oil base primer will
a) look good because the peeled off paint will telegraph thru.
b) Won’t the latex just peel off at some later time even with an oil based primer on top-the bond to the substrate is still going to be bad?
My friends want him to strip all the latex off, degloss the existing paint and then repaint. The painter is resisting this idea.
What think y’all?
Thanks,
Daniel Neumansky
Restoring our second Victorian home this time in Alamdea CA. Check out the blog http://www.chezneumansky.blogspot.com/
Oakland CA
Crazy Homeowner-Victorian Restorer
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Strip it, degloss it, repaint it...That would be the right way. Anything else is a gamble.
If it's coming off in big sheets, won't take too much to strip it, would it?
Bottom line, he should have used a good deglossing primer the first time...sounds like he used none...now its too late.
If the paint on the wall is loose, slapping primer overtop is not going to help it adhere any better. And to hide the shiners where the paint layers did come off, he would have to spot prime several coats and/or spackle to fill in those missing layers before re-painting the finish coats.
If the job is all going to hell, I'd say get the money back, and hire a different painter who knows what he's doing.
Davo
Sounds like a mess. The high price of taking shortcuts. The solution depends on how well the paint will strip off. It has to be done. But if it doesn't come off clean, it could be a big project. Maybe even have to skim coat with mud, and re-texture. Like I said, the issue is, How cleanly will the paint come off?
what your friends want is the only right way to handle it.
and they should be aware of the typical lead warnings for older homes
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My friends want him to strip all the latex off, degloss the existing paint and then repaint.
This sounds like they may be getting into a debate as to what "all" means. If it were my screw-up or even my job to fix, I would tell them that I would remove all of the latex paint that isn't well-adhered. That may be all of it or it may only be in certain places. It's hard to know without attempting it.
Whatever is well-adhered now will remain well-adhered indefinitely once it's primed with an oil primer. That's an important step (which you did not mention where I quoted you above) because it will keep moisture from penetrating through the existing latex paint when it's re-painted. That moisture could cause additional peeling.
Of course, doing it this way does mean spackling paint ridges and re-priming. So here's the steps as I see it:
I'd like to know what kind of paint was used. That wall was not properly prepared, but I've seen modern acrylic paint stick to stuff that you would never expect it too. Even a simple cleaning should have been sufficient to keep the latex on the wall for more than 2 months.