Thursday, February 11, 2010

How to fix peeling paint? ?

My new apt has a very neat color scheme, but unfortunately has been painted many many times and now in several rooms, paint is peeling off the walls to reveal the old color(s). How do I fix this? Do I have to scrape it off and sand or just prime? Hoping to do a better job than the last tenants. Thanks!





Oh . . .and yes landlord gave permission to paint whatever I want. How to fix peeling paint? ?
Well if you want to do the job right, you should get an organic filter mask and safety goggles or glasses.





get some tarps on the floor, see if you can apply removeable masking tape between the tarp and the wall to make a decent seal.





There's going to be a lot of dust.





For the scraping you should get a pair of comfy gloves too, cause sometimes the paint can cut into ur skin....you wouldnt want that.





To do this right you're going to need to scrape very slowly till you see bare wood. This will take a long time. be prepared to spend many hours and days on it.





once you get it down to bare wood, then sand it all smooth with 80 grit sand paper and then the 2nd sanding with 120 grit.





For priming bare wood:


get a small container of denatured alcohol from your paint store, plus 2 not so expensive nylon brushes.


Get some Zinser primer or Bin primer and carefully, with mask and goggles brush over the wood, one coat,


immediately rinse the priming brush in a small amount of alcohol and use an old rag to squeeze it dry.


then dry 6 hours, then a 2nd coat.


Sand between coats with 220 grit paper lighlty to removes imperfections.





Throw away the brush or brushes you used for priming.





Now for paint you have oil or latex.





If you have a ton of time, and lots of ventilation available, then go with an oil based paint. Use a horse hair brush. This then requires turpentine or petrol spirits to clean up the brush or spills if you want to save the brush.





Otherwise, use a latex based paint, use a fine brush but not horsehair.


Latex paint requires warm water for clean up.





Oil paint, when properly applied lasts for years without chipping.





IF you dont have lots of time...theres another option..





your paint store sells a light painting spackle





remove the majority of chips and dont go too deep.


spackle over with a wide spackle knife let dry for 24 hours, sand with 220 grit very carefully until smooth, then use latex paint over it very carefully.How to fix peeling paint? ?
Sorry but you will have your work cut out for you. There is no way to salvage peeling paint. You will need to scrape all the loose paint and spackle the cracks and holes. I would advise a good shellac based primer like BIN or KILZ because a good primer is the difference between a good paint job and one which will fail in a short time.

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