Decorating the lounge, I stripped my ceiling of wallpaper and cleaned it. I then applied one base coat and one top coat. On standing back to admire my handy work, a large bubble appeared. Once dry, I cut around the bubble but it then spread and stripping the base coat and the top coat off the ceiling. On asking advice from a couple of decorators, I was told it was some sort of chemical reaction and they had never seen it before (fat lot of good). I strip the remaining paint off (very easily as it hadn't attached itself to the ceiling at all) and clean it again. I painted it with base coat. It didn't bubble but horrible slashes appeared all over the ceiling. Desperate, I slapped some glue on these areas and painted over it. Seemed to do the job and I managed to finish the lounge. Now slashes are appearing daily. What is wrong with my ceiling??? I need to fix this. I am doing the hall and very worried the same is going to happen. Please HELP.
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Sounds fascinating.
It's strange that paint won't hang on to the ceiling when the paper did?
Is it greasy, or dusty?
What kind of paint did you use?
It's strange that paint won't hang on to the ceiling when the paper did?
Is it greasy, or dusty?
What kind of paint did you use?
It's definately not greasy. It sort of got a fine dust which when you wash it is fine but when you paint, it still won't take. Then when the paint fell off it had a sort of fine dust again. Washed it again, it was fine but the paint still isn't taking. It's very strange. Our next door neighbour is a painter and decorator and he says he's never seen anything like it. I just don't know what to do.
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Whack some diluted PVA on, that should stablise the ceiling. Hopefully 
Sounds like youve got old distemper paint on your ceiling ,which dries white and powdery.It is very hard work to wash off,but try and remove as much as you can with warm soapy water.When dry seal with PVA or better still masonry stableliser solution.Leave 24 hrs then paint over .If that doesnt work I would try papering the ceiling again. Good luck....
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Distemper must be decades ago. No idea why it's dusty stuff? But a good coat of PVA should stick anything non-greasy together so's paint will stick OK.
My question on kind of paint not answered yet?
My question on kind of paint not answered yet?
Sorry, the paint I used was Delux base coat and Dulex emulsion for top coat (not cheap stuff), so I don't think the paint's at fault. Also, the second half of the room is perfect - if it were the paint, it would have affected the whole room.
Half the paper had fallen down
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What is it with all this PVA malarky?....its not a 'cure all'
Mamma.....what do you mean by 'base coat'?...Dulux dont make a paint called 'base coat'....so it must be part of a system.....sounds to me like you have distemper on the ceiling. You can easily tell, just rub your finger over it....it will be powdery.
There no easy answer with distemper....you have to scrub it off or soak it and then scrap it off with a window scraper and then give it a coat of either Alkali resisting primer or Dulux water based stain block sealer...using stabiliser may be risky as it is primarily meant for exteriors prior to painting with masonry paint. the stain block sealer is white so it will help cover the ceiling, although after all the scrubing and scraping you may find the ceiling will need lining or papering.
Mamma.....what do you mean by 'base coat'?...Dulux dont make a paint called 'base coat'....so it must be part of a system.....sounds to me like you have distemper on the ceiling. You can easily tell, just rub your finger over it....it will be powdery.
There no easy answer with distemper....you have to scrub it off or soak it and then scrap it off with a window scraper and then give it a coat of either Alkali resisting primer or Dulux water based stain block sealer...using stabiliser may be risky as it is primarily meant for exteriors prior to painting with masonry paint. the stain block sealer is white so it will help cover the ceiling, although after all the scrubing and scraping you may find the ceiling will need lining or papering.
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