Wall Paint Peeling

A wall with peeling paint can be an unsightly mess in a home causing a homeowner embarrassment and frustration. The old paint should come right off and fall onto your towel plastic sheet or tarp.

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Its too small to warrant stripping the entire wall but too big to ignore or paint over.

Wall paint peeling. A coat of paint applied over a dirty wall is almost guaranteed to peel or crack down the road. If paint peels from an interior wall the reason for the peeling paint is often an improperly prepared surface and moisture seeping through from the wall to the paint surface. Most moisture comes from outside but sometimes it collects in the wall and works its way outward. Thenusing a putty knife wire brush or paint scrapercarefully remove all the chipped or peeling paint from the walls and ceiling. As long as the remaining edges are stable it will work but its an ugly solution especially if youre dealing with peeling paint that is several layers deep. Read the existing paint for clues.

Scrape off all of the peeling paint. The telltale signs of peeling paint are hard to miss. If window trim alone is peeling pry off trim boards and plug gaps around. Peeling paint presents a real dilemma. Peeling paint is usually caused by moisture getting into the wood and breaking the paints bond with the wood fiber. You can always prime and paint over an area where paint has peeled off.

Bulges or flakes at the top of a wall point to gutter or roof leaks. The old towel or tarp will catch the old paint and debris that you scrape off of the wall. For example when latex based paint is used to cover a previous paint job that used oil based paint peeling will occur. They should be found and fixed. Latex is especially vulnerable to dirt. Paint peeling on a wall next to a bathroom means condensation on the back.

The reasons for peeling paint are varieddirty walls that have been painted excess moisture improper prep latex paint on top of oil paintbut you can fix the problem. Spidery cracks holes in the paint surface even large strips or sections of paint that come off on their own. Choose a flat blade to scrape against the wall with the peeling paint. Incompatible paint layers will cause peeling paint.

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