Newly plastered walls painted with 100%matt emul..help pls

[freefingers]

Hello,

Just replastered living room, kitchen and hall. Plasterer told painter to make sure he use 50/50 mist coat first. However, in an effort to get the job done quickly the 'painter' has put a very thick coat of leyland matt emulsion straight on (thankfully we stopped him before he got to the kitchen). My questions are:

1. How likely is this to peel?

and

2. Can we rectify this? eg. steam/stripscrape it back, etc and then do the 50/50 with a new painter

Any help would be greatly received

Thanks

Freefingers

 

[dcdec]

Sometimes you can get away with it and there will be no adverse affect, but i would apply a coat of zinsser gardz, this will penetrate and bind down the paint. You should name and shame the guy that did it as well.