Flaking Paint??

[MissPoohs]

We have a smashin decorator, he's not long finished my sons room - great job again.

I asked him about an area of flaking paint we have in a down stairs cupboard.

He used a term along the lines of fluessence(??), saying it was some kind of reaction between the wall and the paint.

He told me how to treat it and now I can't remember - does it sound familar to anyone here?

Thanks

Janice

 

[MissPoohs]

Got it it's efflorescence

 

[joe-90]

It's salts out of the wall caused by damp or leaking pipes. Have you had a problem down there before?

 

[MissPoohs]

Oddly enough Joe when we moved in there was a dodgy smell in that cupboard, but we thought it was the old the old carpet in there, so we tossed it, but the smell persisted.

Then we got gas put into the house, and the day the workmen came and started drilling we found out the cause of the smell. A drain had blocked and the water was collecting underneath our house.

The drain was fixed and the water was pumped away, and it seems to have been fine ever since.

The house is nearly 40yrs old and other than this small area of that one cupboard, theres no dampness in the house.

I was told to scrape off the flakes and paint the wall with some treatment or other but I can't remember what it was called.