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Last year I painted some sash and case windows with Ronseal 7 year exterior paint. After a few weeks thepaintbstarted crazing and lifting. For example it lifted all of the paint on the putty. I contacted Ronseal who stated that it was poor prep.
So this year I stripped the cills and the bottom rail on the lower sashes (thats the areas that seemed to be affected by the crazing). I followed the instructions to the letter, ie sand then wipe down with white spirit. Now after less than two weeks the paint is flaking and crazing again.
This year I used 10 year paint as the 7 year paint was discontinued.
The previous two times the windows had been painted we used Homebases's own brand exterior paint and we had no problems at all. This paint is oil based whereas the Ronseal paint s water based.
Am going to complain to Ronseal but expect they will give the usual line of poor or wrong prep.
Anyone else had similar problems?
I fear I will need to strip everything next year again. I have a fe windows still to do as I had to redo putty on them and there's no way Ronseal will be going any where near them.
So this year I stripped the cills and the bottom rail on the lower sashes (thats the areas that seemed to be affected by the crazing). I followed the instructions to the letter, ie sand then wipe down with white spirit. Now after less than two weeks the paint is flaking and crazing again.
This year I used 10 year paint as the 7 year paint was discontinued.
The previous two times the windows had been painted we used Homebases's own brand exterior paint and we had no problems at all. This paint is oil based whereas the Ronseal paint s water based.
Am going to complain to Ronseal but expect they will give the usual line of poor or wrong prep.
Anyone else had similar problems?
I fear I will need to strip everything next year again. I have a fe windows still to do as I had to redo putty on them and there's no way Ronseal will be going any where near them.