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House is 1950's, no extractor fan, no heat source, it's an upstairs bedroom, paint flaking is on the sloping exterior wall, under the roof. on the vertical exterior wall the paint is fine, also ok on the ceiling. Paint that is flaking is not powdery and at first appears sound. you can scrape...

Decorating new house and on one wall there was some light flaking covering a couple of sq cm's. scraped it back to good paint and prob. took off 1/2 sq meter. Paint left seemed good, so sanded down and applied coat of emulsion. within half an hour there were bubles on the old paintwork, which...