PAINT SHOULD NOT FALL OFF OTHER PAINT

[solarbird]

PAINT SHOULD NOT FALL OFF OTHER PAINT. IT SHOULD STICK TO OTHER PAINT, LIKE GOOD LITTLE MOLECULES OF WHATEVER THE HELL IT IS.

godtDAMMIT I hate house paint.

Comments

[rmd.livejournal.com]

is it calcimine or just soft paint underneath?

[kitchengrrl.livejournal.com]

Well, I think you're DEFINITELY more of an expert than I am in this area, but maybe if you gave it a light sanding on the surface you're wanting to paint?

We've had a problem with all the trim paint coming off on the painter's tape that we used. We haven't done the trim yet, so this is the existing trim paint which is peeling off other trim paint. It does this even if I barely press on the painter's tape and don't leave it on more than 2 seconds, so I'm fairly certain it's not the tape. My mom suggested that when we get around to doing the trim we sand and clean all of it before painting in the hope that it will remain on the surface.

*shrug* I dunno. Best of luck!

[solarbird]

There's no calcimine issue; they're cabinet doors, painted wood. It's the paint that was underneath the current paint that's coming off all over the place now - I think the new paint made the previous layer stretch or something, delaminating it. Gah.

[backrubbear.livejournal.com]

Sand paper is your friend.

Painting non-semi gloss on semi-gloss: Satanic.

[solarbird]

It's not a sandpaper issue - at least, not on our side of things. The paint under the new paint is what's actually coming off, not the new paint itself. Rah.