I have a ceiling with some mild peeling of the paint,
and SWMBO has ordered me to cure it.
Is it a good idea to stick small undetached peels
back against the ceiling with a touch of paint?


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Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

On 31/08/2013 11:51, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I have a ceiling with some mild peeling of the paint,
and SWMBO has ordered me to cure it.
Is it a good idea to stick small undetached peels
back against the ceiling with a touch of paint?



IMO better to drag a chisel across the surface at 45 degs to detach all
the loose stuff. Also, new paint will tend to create more loose stuff.
Not a rewarding job

stuart noble wrote:
On 31/08/2013 11:51, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I have a ceiling with some mild peeling of the paint,
and SWMBO has ordered me to cure it.
Is it a good idea to stick small undetached peels
back against the ceiling with a touch of paint?

IMO better to drag a chisel across the surface at 45 degs to detach all
the loose stuff. Also, new paint will tend to create more loose stuff.
Not a rewarding job

Bloody disasterous job. Had a bit of ceiling to paint where it'd peeled
(probably due to folded back loft insulation), so scraped it back and
back and ended up with quite a bare patch as whoever painted it
originally put it on at an 'ell of a thickness so it peeled away like
wallpaper with little effort and without leaving a mark behind.

Painted. Went away.

Next day, new peels at the edges I'd created.

At some point I'm going to have to enlarge the patch. I've a horrible
feeling that'll be most of the £$%^&* ceiling.

--
Scott

On 31/08/2013 17:46, Scott M wrote:
stuart noble wrote:
On 31/08/2013 11:51, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I have a ceiling with some mild peeling of the paint,
and SWMBO has ordered me to cure it.
Is it a good idea to stick small undetached peels
back against the ceiling with a touch of paint?

IMO better to drag a chisel across the surface at 45 degs to detach
all the loose stuff. Also, new paint will tend to create more loose
stuff. Not a rewarding job

Bloody disasterous job. Had a bit of ceiling to paint where it'd peeled
(probably due to folded back loft insulation), so scraped it back and
back and ended up with quite a bare patch as whoever painted it
originally put it on at an 'ell of a thickness so it peeled away like
wallpaper with little effort and without leaving a mark behind.

Painted. Went away.

Next day, new peels at the edges I'd created.

At some point I'm going to have to enlarge the patch. I've a horrible
feeling that'll be most of the £$%^&* ceiling.


I think that first coat needs to be very thin so that the weight of the
new paint doesn't drag the existing coat off the ceiling. Hopefully the
thin coat gets under the edges and acts as an adhesive. That's the
optimistic view :-)