Ultraglide wrote:

I just found out that she had wallpaper on the wall so I bought some
stripper to take the paint off. Hopefully both the primer and the previous
paint will come off.

Good grief! Don't use paint remover! There are loads of posts on this
newsgroup about removing wallpaper. Just pull off the paper. If you
try to use paint remover, you will have a goshawful mess.

Unless there are many blisters, or the paint is peeling, you may not
have to do anything. If it looks good and stays on, leave it.

You can generally remove paper quite easily and google will give you
lots of hits. Messy but not difficult.

"Norminn" wrote in message
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Ultraglide wrote:

My mother just called me to say that she is painting her bathroom. She
used a latex primer. When she went back to check the job she noticed a
bubble. She picked at the bubble and some of the paint peeled off. My
assumption is that the previous paint was oil-based. Any suggestions as
to how we can fix things?

Glossy old finish? Washed well before painting? Possibly she used a fan
or heater to dry the paint, or bright sun was on the area causing it to
dry too fast? Blistering is commonly from either suface drying too fast
and solvent trapped under the film, or surface was damp and water caused
the blister. You can pierce blisters and often they will flatten out and
not be a problem. Latex on top of a properly cleaned and dry alkyd should
not be a problem.