Paint peeling off bathroom walls HELP!!

[emmalemon]

Hi there

I have just stripped the wallpaper from my bathroom walls and the paint underneath came off with it - I was happy about this as the walls are now bare plaster (looks as though they had been skimmed - probably during the last 5-8 years)

My problem is this - I want to paint the walls as I hate wallpaper but I want to avoid the paint peeling off. When I moved into my PREVIOUS house the bathroom walls had been skimmed over and painted just before I bought it - after a few months the paint started to peel off and looked like strips of PVC (the bits that peeled off were stretchy!). It looks to me like the previous owners of my CURRENT house had the same problem and ended up papering the walls.

Can you please advise on how I should prep the walls and what I need to do / what I need to use to stop the paint peeling off? I don't want to start the job until I am certain I'm doing it right and won't have peeling walls again!!

Thanks

 

[emmalemon]

Just thought I'd add that a someone told me the paint probably peeled as there was too much water used in the plaster!! Don't know if this is true

 

[Zampa]

They could have peeled because the paste has softened up the paint..or they havnt been mist coated.

 

[Third_Eye]

Sounds like an flexible water-based coating has been applied directly to bare plaster.