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on a job at the min mostly board & skim..
finishing off the last room i had a reveal to do which was old skim and looked like Matt paint..give its a good scrape as usual and couple of pva..laid two coats troweld up..spot on
5min later the fooooker blown not the new skim but the paint off the old skim bring my skim off.. :-[ >:( never had this before.
made me a bit paranoid now when doing re skims, ???

devil all over ..scrape all off ..wba but cant see what that going to solve as it was the problem with the paint blowing not the skim.. ??? ??? ??? ??? :P :P
 
Yeah this is one of the problems on re-skimming over paint had it loads of times, we started using thistle bond it on every over skim now not had the problem since.
 
Bod said:
Yeah this is one of the problems on re-skimming over paint had it loads of times, we started using thistle bond it on every over skim now not had the problem since.

will bond it stableize the paint?,,
we go back to the old "your only as good as what your going onto" hoping paint is going to hold the skim is looking for problems ..
think its going to be devil all over then wba or bondit form now on :-\
 
pva too thin, make it thicker like carping :D also let it dry before you skim if you suspect there could be a problem with the paint, this tends to work, sometimes it does not.
 
we are not talking about the new skim not bonding to the paint..my skim bonded fine as i could see because as i took off the blown part, the paint was well bonded to the back ..it was a case of the old paint came away from the original surface
 
pro finish said:
we are not talking about the new skim not bonding to the paint..my skim bonded fine as i could see because as i took off the blown part, the paint was well bonded to the back ..it was a case of the old paint came away from the original surface
How you doing Del, where are you these days?
 
pro finish said:
we are not talking about the new skim not bonding to the paint..my skim bonded fine as i could see because as i took off the blown part, the paint was well bonded to the back ..it was a case of the old paint came away from the original surface
The water in the plaster soaked through the pva, then the original paint, causing it to blow. could also be that the original paint never really adhered to the original plaster.
 
del said:
pro finish said:
we are not talking about the new skim not bonding to the paint..my skim bonded fine as i could see because as i took off the blown part, the paint was well bonded to the back ..it was a case of the old paint came away from the original surface
The water in the plaster soaked through the pva, then the original paint, causing it to blow. could also be that the original paint never really adhered to the original plaster.

;) get you now del, as it happens the part that came away was very dry and the paint came off in big sheets..not like paint that was well bedded ,if that makes any sense :D
 
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