…or at least tolerate it once I got going, that is. It takes a fair amount of momentum to get the prep-work done, then push on into several coats of paint — I’m sure we’ve all done it.<\/p>\n
That’s why I’m totally unhappy.<\/p>\n
I had PROMISED Shel that I would get the ensuite bathroom done this last week. All it really just needed was to be paineted and have new towel rods and such put up. No big deal…I went about removing old fixtures, filling all the resulting holes, finishing up the trim around the shower, that kind of thing. Then Saturday I got to painting…<\/p>\n
The first coat went on fine, nothing untoward. But when I applied the SECOND coat it got ugly. The first coat literally rolled off onto the roller! Damn! It was a hideous mess. So, I let it dry some more; thinking it was just not dry yet. Wrong. I got the second coat on, but all the while, the first coat was glopping and bunching…hideous. I let the second coat dry.<\/p>\n
After it was all dry, there were a few places where the surface was a still a little bumpy, so I decided I’d sand it a bit then touch up. Wrong! The whole wall peeled off like bubble gum stuck to a table. It was GROSS. Of course if it had peeled ALL the way off, I could have just repainted the wall; BUT NO! As it was, it peeled in some places, took three layers off in other places, and wouldn’t budge in more places. Now I have one wall that’s all peeled and lumpy and the other two could be very “delicate” — any scratch could send it all peeling off.<\/p>\n
The perfectionist in me is not <\/strong>happy.<\/p>\n This is my current plan. Two of the walls are “okay” though they may not last — only time will tell, but I’m NOT going to go poking at them to find out — I’ll leave them as they are. If they peel off, then I guess I’ll just have to strip and paint them. The third wall is a complete mess, so I’m peeling off what comes easily, filling the paint holes and ridges with spackle so the surface is even, then I’ll sand, prime and paint again.<\/p>\n I’ve painted for a living, and done MANY rooms and I’ve NEVER had this happen. All I can surmise is that the previous owners used some kind of strange, alien, oil paint when they did the room previously and I should have primed the walls before painting, but most latex paint these days is supposed to go over oil paint with no problems.<\/p>\n Now, I’m in for another week of coming home from work, sanding, filling, painting anda fretting about the wlls.<\/p>\n Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …or at least tolerate it once I got going, that is. It takes a fair amount of momentum to get the prep-work done, then push on into several coats of paint — I’m sure we’ve all done it. That’s why I’m totally unhappy. I had PROMISED Shel that I would get the ensuite bathroom done…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.squids.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}