Paint is just flaking and peeling off the walls of my apartment!!!?

Just moved in to an older building and they painted it all right before i moved in....but it's just coming off everywhere.





Any ideas?





ThanksPaint is just flaking and peeling off the walls of my apartment!!!?
shut down your meth labPaint is just flaking and peeling off the walls of my apartment!!!?
Sounds like they tried to paint over oil-based paint with water-based paint...if that's the case, then it will keep flaking and there's nothing you can do except for scrape and repaint. The owner should be responsible for doing it again, correctly this time.
could have been moisture





but maybe the walls originally had oil based paint and they repainted with latex. It won't stick!


Now, you can paint oil (alkyd) over latex but not the other way around very successfully.





If they painted it too heavy or too many coats before drying in between, it could peel.





If they sprayed it with a commercial sprayer, again, too thick, it could peel.





anyway you slice it or dice it, it's a lot of work to fix. It will have to be completely scraped off, primed with a good primer and then repainted with a good quality paint.
Whoah sweetie, you better take pictures of the walls just so you have them, then go talk to your landlord and tell them. It is their responsibility, not yours, to make your walls right. If they don't comply I would ask for my money back and if they refused..small claims court. They must have used super cheap paint or had some kind of moisture problem with the walls. They need to fix it.
umm.. maybe they didnt use like a good paint *-) ii guess u could use like a fixative for it too... for the rest of the paint
we had to put on a special paint that covers up the marks.


You have to get all the paint peelings off and repaint.





Us paint that will cover water marks (cant remember the name, home depot should know)





Put on a primer paint,then your color of paint.
if your building was built before 1978 then that may be lead-based paint that is coming off. the landlord should fix this pronto
Contact the landlord or manager right away. They should make it right and at the very least you want it on record when it started to happen and wasn't anything you did---protect your security deposit.
most likely they did NOT prep the walls first and something in this case REALLY needed to be preped prior to applying paint... either way document it so they dont blame you