Saturday, February 27, 2010

Our bathroom ceiling paint is peeling,help!?

we have painted the bathroom ceiling which was plastered when we moved in.It is now all peeling off.Can you mix P.V.A and paint?If so how much are the quantities please?Our bathroom ceiling paint is peeling,help!?
Get paint that is made for damp areas (they sell special bathroom/kitchen paints) Regular paint will eventually steam off.


Unfortunately, if you already have that problem you are going to have to scrape off all the old/loose paint first, or else the new paint will just come off too. The paint for bathrooms will also deter growing mold and mildew due to moisture.Our bathroom ceiling paint is peeling,help!?
lol don't mix pva with paint, you'll end up with a orange peal effect. instead just brush on some pva mixed with water, 1 part pva, 10 parts water. brush it on, then paint over when dry.


of course this is not the best way, due to the nature of the room you should really use the correct paints, kitchen and bathroom paints are available from most places, or if you want to do the job right you should use a oil or solvent based undercoat first, this will stop the condensation from getting behind the paint and into the plaster.


it's always better to take your time in a bathroom and kitchen as the smallest mistakes can become huge in the weeks after your done.
This is a fairly modern idea mixing paint or painting over PVA. It is not taught in college and all the time-served decorators I have asked have never heard of it - and I also have worked as the paint advisor in a trade decorators merchants and no trained painters have heard of it either.





It is difficult to advise you as I don't know if your plaster wasn't dry or there was a chalky residue acting as a barrier or you didn't thin your first coat of paint or you used the wrong paint. Or you used emulsion in a very high condensation area.





Scrape the loose paint off. Don't repaint until you are sure the plaster is dry and wipe it with your hand to confirm there is no chalky residue - if there is, wipe it off.





Kitchen and Bathroom paint is a bit gimmicky. The best water resisitant bathroom paint is Dulux trade Quick Drying Eggshell, but expensive. The first coat on bare plaster is thinned out. Then add two more.





You could prime the bare plaster with Bullseye 123, but unless your stripping all the paint off you might have new areas come away later anyway, so it might be a waste of money.
its due to condensation. you need a bathroom extractor fan.





pva with water 50% mix. paint on the celling.


2 or 3 coats of pva (must fully dry between coats)


then paint.
You really need an exhaust fan to cure the problem. While there are paints for high moisture areas, they are ';mold resistant'; not moldproof.

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