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inchpincher

Flakey paint. Painting a room and the old paint on the ceiling is flaking randomly. I've DA sanded but feel that'll it'll go again as soon as I give it another coat. Scraping kind of lifts it but haven't got the back strength to sand the whole ceiling... any bright ideas, a stabiliser?

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rodabod in reply to @inchpincher

This is sometimes what happens when a mist coat wasn't applied, so the paint doesn't soak in properly to get a good bond. Just sand the loose stuff and you'll hopefully be ok. I think I'd use a 50/50 mist coat first this time.

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inchpincher in reply to @rodabod

I did a 60/40 mist coat, the problem is the old ceiling paint, the other walls were bare plaster. Decoraters merchant just gave me some Zinsser sealer so we'll see how that goes. Least he could do seeing as we just dropped £600 on Little Greene paint.

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