Painting issue

[marblerun]

Hi all

Need some advice please.

We started painting the house. The old paintwork had bubbled quite a bit. This was scraped off and was painted over as you can see in the pictures. It doesn’t look great.

What’s the most economical way to get it looking smooth again? And would a plasterer or painter be best placed to rectify?

Many thanks.

 

[Wayners]

You have removed the loose paint only which has made it look untidy.
Think I'd leave that for a winter and see what happens.
Try and work out why the paint has come off and it might happen again.

 

[marblerun]

Thanks for getting back to me. The thing is this is our painters work and he’s putting a second coat on next week. He’s saying there’s nothing he can do. I don’t have the knowledge to challenge him.

 

[Wayners]

Not much you can do.
If you remove some paint then you have the leftover paint edges so it looks patchy.
It's not easy or possible to blend that in.

You can apply textured exterior wall covering to give it an even rough surface or a textured pattern look but the background needs to be solid.
Paint coming away is a worry though. Why was the paint coming off?

The problem you have is common. People except the walls to look like a new render painted house so it's really the tradesperson job to explain and manage expectations.
I looked at a few similar jobs over the years where I explained how it would look just painted and to consider products like krend which ment I lost the job.

There are paint stripping companies around now which is another option.
Get the paint professionally removed then primed and painted..

 

[marblerun]

Thanks again. Appreciate your input. Some of the edges on the leftover paint, of which there are 100s, could be 2mm. Most are less than 1mm. I thought these might have been sanded.

 

[Wayners]

Yeah. That would of helped. Also filling in the edges a bit would helped.