paint cracking off doorframe

[FrankieStaff]

Hi,

Just wanted some opinions on our upstairs bathroom door frame. The paint has started to crack, and I'm worried this could be a sign of structural movement? I am very good at over worrying! In the photos, you can see where we used some edging as a 'cheat' to cover up where some pain had come away, and now the paint on the door frame has started to move. Opinions appreciated!

 

[big-all]

looks to me like bad preparation/wrong materials used and paint not adhering or cauking moving

 

[foxhole]

Dirty frame over painted and now loosing adhesion to old paint.

 

[FrankieStaff]

This is a relief, what would be causing it to occur now though? Would it just be thermal movement due to heat? The house was decorated by others before we purchased it so I can't say how it was painted etc this year is our 4th year in the house

 

[big-all]

maybe the old owners never shut the door or where very gentle when closing ???
maybe your family is more heavy handed
somthing will be different but who knows what

 

[Old Salt]

Looks as if the paint was slapped on too thick to me

 

[opps]

As a decorator I come across that quite a lot. In most all cases it is the result of plaster.

The plasterer skims up to the door liner. The chippy fitting the new architraves ignores the plaster. The decorator that paints everything ignores the plaster and paints over it.

In time it blows (it can take a year, it can take 10). Customer phones me. I turn up and use sharp chisels and sand paper to remove the plaster from the edge of the door liner, and then prime, caulk, paint.

That said, I do not understand why images 3/4/5 show what looks like a quadrant moulding plonked on the left hand side of the door frame. I suspect (without concrete evidence) that it is hiding some thing- possibly a persistent crack that the previous "builder" didn't know how to resolve. It may be the case that they glued the quadrant to the plaster rather than the edge of the architrave (hence the movement).

Nothing in your photos rings alarm bells for me.