Appelboom
2014-03-19 20:05:35
- #1
We had the staircase of our 8-family house renovated a year ago.
The stairwell baseboard was painted with oil paint, very stable and technically in excellent condition – only the color was no longer appealing. We got quotes from painting companies and chose one of the firms.
The master painter had looked at the staircase and offered to "thoroughly strip the baseboard" and paint it twice in a color of our choice.
The staircase was nicely renovated, and after a few weeks, the first move took place. Afterwards, it looked terrible: lots of scratches above the baseboard, and the paint was hanging off the baseboard in flakes, while the substrate remained intact and shiny in the old color.
The baseboard paint flakes came off like poorly glued wallpaper – it simply did not adhere to the old paint. (The messed up dispersion paint on the higher wall areas and ceilings is naturally not the problem!)
We complained, and the painter agreed to remove the paint and redo it.
He consulted the paint manufacturer and received the recommendation to apply a primer on the sanded substrate and then apply two coats of acrylic paint as before.
When sanding, remnants of the old paint remained in the depressions of the lightly textured substrate.
Now it turns out that the new paint, which is about 10 days old, is again not very durable. It adheres more firmly than the first, but you can still easily enlarge scratches in the paint with your fingernail. The primer comes off with it, and the old paint reappears.
In hindsight, of course, I am wiser: an oil paint coating should have gone on top – but the master painter should have known that a long time ago.
Before, we did not like the color anymore, but now we have a real problem. What to do?
The stairwell baseboard was painted with oil paint, very stable and technically in excellent condition – only the color was no longer appealing. We got quotes from painting companies and chose one of the firms.
The master painter had looked at the staircase and offered to "thoroughly strip the baseboard" and paint it twice in a color of our choice.
The staircase was nicely renovated, and after a few weeks, the first move took place. Afterwards, it looked terrible: lots of scratches above the baseboard, and the paint was hanging off the baseboard in flakes, while the substrate remained intact and shiny in the old color.
The baseboard paint flakes came off like poorly glued wallpaper – it simply did not adhere to the old paint. (The messed up dispersion paint on the higher wall areas and ceilings is naturally not the problem!)
We complained, and the painter agreed to remove the paint and redo it.
He consulted the paint manufacturer and received the recommendation to apply a primer on the sanded substrate and then apply two coats of acrylic paint as before.
When sanding, remnants of the old paint remained in the depressions of the lightly textured substrate.
Now it turns out that the new paint, which is about 10 days old, is again not very durable. It adheres more firmly than the first, but you can still easily enlarge scratches in the paint with your fingernail. The primer comes off with it, and the old paint reappears.
In hindsight, of course, I am wiser: an oil paint coating should have gone on top – but the master painter should have known that a long time ago.
Before, we did not like the color anymore, but now we have a real problem. What to do?