Repainting plasterboard with flaking satin paint

[miets]

We moved house recently and our first job was to repaint all walls. Upstairs in our conversion the previous owners painted plasterboard walls with satin paint, not a good paint either. Now everywhere there are peelings of paint coming off. Should I just try and paint over it, sand it down or strip all of the wall first? Do I use PVC or a special primer? I would like to do this properly, so any help out there I will consider to mend my walls.

 

[jamcb]

decorating plasterboard is a tricky proposition. was the platserboard plastered before painting, if so you should beable to sand flaking paint to a resonable finish. if not happy with finish dilute pva adhesive mix of 3:1 paint over area and re skim with a fine surface filler or joint cement such as knauf easi sand.(appy with a 9" flexi filling blade or caulking blade) then sand, pva again then paint or refill untill u achieve desire finsh
regards john

 

[miets]

Thank you for the advice John. Going to get on with the PVA then.

 

[spice]

I think the previous owner must have got muddles up between undercoat and satin lol

The best way to seal plasterboard prior to papering, and to make life easy if you get round to stripping it off in the future is to undercoat the plasterboard with oilbase undercoat.
If you do this, and down the line you decide to strip the paper, it comes off no problem.

Maybe he never had any undercoat to hand and used satin instead.

 

[Zampa]

Iv'e never heard of 'flaking satin' paint...is it a new finish on the market?

I agree with spice here..i find those plasterbaord sealers a waste of time.