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Sorry @Wayners think that’s me confusing things. The walls have been skimmed, I don’t think the ceiling has. My plan today is to scrape it all off, sand back anything that’s not come off and then put some Gardz on. I don’t have the skills to skim, do you think that’s necessary here? Surface is...

Hope I’m not breaking any spamming rules here, but I think I’ve figured it out. I believe the ceiling had calcimine on it. The new layers of water based primer and paint have softened it up and it’s lost adhesion. I’m not sure if the walls also have it but they’ve been skimmed over at some...

Also @Wayners don’t suppose you know why the plaster is grey? I was expecting it to be brown

Actually scratch that it does seem to be coming off on the back. It’s pretty crumbly whereas the other layers of the paint are holding together

Yes there are bits of it in patches. It doesn’t seem to be coming off on the back of the sheets that are peeling off though which is a bit odd. I wouldn’t say it’s chalky. I have dust on my fingers if I touch it but that’s true of the whole ceiling

Thanks. The walls don’t seem to have the same issue which is odd. Or maybe I’ve just don’t gone at them hard enough. I’ve been having luck scraping it off with one of those 7 in 1 tools. One question @Wayners , if I’m scraping back literally the entire ceiling, what is left to sand and fill? Or...

Thank you @Wayners again. By get it off do you mean the whole ceiling? It’s probably 6 layers of paint coming off here, right back to plaster

Hi everyone I’m really in need of some help here. I had another thread going talking about the primer on my walls blistering, and then an issue with blistering on the ceiling. @Wayners has been incredibly helpful there but I think I’ve found the root cause, on the ceiling at least. I had some...

Getting nowhere with this and approaching my wits end. A bit of masking tape was enough to peel a load of my topcoat and primer back to the base coat. Seems particularly bad in areas I’ve filled. I guess my mistake was not priming those areas despite toupret claiming there’s no need. I’m...

I don't think I've got it in me to start trying to pull the paint off, it's doing a good enough job of that itself! Strangely all of these bumps seem to have disappeared overnight while it has dried. I assume they won't actually be adhered to the surface underneath so they will eventually peel...

Thanks for sharing your experience @Wayners , I’ll give them a call. I did use sugar soap but I got a ready mixed spray one which I won’t be doing again. In the meantime, what’s the best move here? Scrape back the bubbles, Peelstop, fill, sand then paint over? The areas I’ve done that so far...

I’m inclined to agree, they seem to have stopped selling it which might be pretty telling. Lesson learned. This is the only room we need to do large amount of filling or plastering in, everything else is in decent nick. We are going from dark to light in most rooms though, is bullseye 123 a good...

https://media.graphassets.com/kYKd9348Quu7X0tEjIlu Nothing that insightful. It says previous painted surfaces just need rubbing down, bare surfaces should be primed. We had a load of bonding and filler put in as we had a huge gap from an old picture rail. That will have needed priming so I just...

Yeah that’s the one. It does say “It can be used on bare plaster or plasterboard, old water-based paint, and old solvent-based paint” so I guessed I was safe on that front

Thanks for replying @Wayners I believe the previous owners has it skimmed, there’s peeling paint elsewhere so not sure if there was a mist coat of any kind. The primer I use was B&Q GoodHome walls & ceilings primer & undercoat. I hold my hands up it was a mistake buying this and it seems...

Having a nightmare time of it. I’ve left the walls alone for now as I’m painting the ceiling too and wanted that finished up first. I put my first coat of colour on yesterday which went on fine, though this morning had a few spots where it was peeling. Scraped back, Peelstop, filled. This...

Just a little update for anyone following. The blistering definitely got better once the primer has fully dried. I’ve scraped off what I can and sanded the areas, and have applied some Peelstop which seemed to be the consensus on YouTube. Once it’s dry I’ll fill and sand. I’m using toupret ready...

I’m hoping underneath will be my original coat of primer! Would be odd if that had bubbled up too as it was totally dry

No absolutely wasn’t expecting to paint the peelstop over and have the bubbles disappear! I was suggesting I could put some on after scraping the bubbles off and sanding. To your other point, this was my second coat of the same primer which bubbled. First one yesterday evening was fine, second...

Absolutely will do! I try to make a habit of coming back to my threads and updating. Sometimes good news sometimes bad