Paint peeling off plaster

chrissyfp1

I'm hoping someone will be able to help me, I'm slightly obsessed with this forum at the mo!!
Basically the paint in the kitchen is peeling from the walls. I don't know who plastered it, or when, but it looks as though someone has painted straight over the top of the new plaster with a silk paint, which is falling off!!
My understanding of painting new plaster is that you apply a mist coat of watered down emulsion first and it looks as though that vital part has been missed out!!
I rent this house and want to repaint the kitchen. So my question is, is how do go about sorting out the surface so it doesn't all come off!! I just want to tidy up the kitchen, whoever did the plastering doesn't seem to have been that good as it's really poorly applied in places. So a perfectly smooth finish isn't going to happen without another skim coat and I'm not paying for that. I just want a cheap and cheerful tidy up. I've added a pic of the worst of it. Many thanks in advance.

JW_here

remove lose paint then lighty rub down the walls with a course sandpaper, have a dusk mask.
them paint the walls with 2 coats of PVA 1st coat 30%PVA 70% water, let it dry, 30mins 2nd coat 50/50.
Then paint on top

keystone

JW_here wrote: »

remove lose paint then lighty rub down the walls with a course sandpaper, have a dusk mask.
them paint the walls with 2 coats of PVA 1st coat 30%PVA 70% water, let it dry, 30mins 2nd coat 50/50.
Then paint on top

At the risk of offending I have to say that this proposal is the most horrible bodge that I have ever seen recommended here or anywhere else.

See THIS thread for information (post #25 onwards) about why paint peels and how to remedy it.

Cheers

nickj_2

JW_here wrote: »

remove lose paint then lighty rub down the walls with a course sandpaper, have a dusk mask.
them paint the walls with 2 coats of PVA 1st coat 30%PVA 70% water, let it dry, 30mins 2nd coat 50/50.
Then paint on top

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NO PVA -
emulsion paint will not stick to pva - you will not find any paint manufacturer reccomending sealing new walls with pva ,

scrape back until you get to a solid bit of paint if poss , you may find that as the walls have had no mist coat that it will all come off , once you have done this feather the edges with some fine filler and sand down - then put a mist coat the paint as required

JW_here

No PVA Then

Plasterer

Sand it all off, Rip all the plaster back to bare brick, Get a Kango and knock the whole wall down.
Get polish bricklaying team to rebuild, Lithuanian Plasterers to plaster, Hungarian decorators to finish - Job done £50 quid all in.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

jcb208

Never use PVA as stated just thin some emulsion down to seal plaster after scraping back to firm edge then feather paint edges with filler and then decorate and If you have PVA throw it away as its no use in decorating

JW_here

its gone in the skip... oups

bradleigh1977

or by some b and q white paint, the cheap stuff. its about 2% paint and 98% water. And use that as a quick miss coat, maybe even two coats. then put a quality paint over the top. job done.

chrissyfp1

Plasterer wrote: »

Sand it all off, Rip all the plaster back to bare brick, Get a Kango and knock the whole wall down.
Get polish bricklaying team to rebuild, Lithuanian Plasterers to plaster, Hungarian decorators to finish - Job done £50 quid all in.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Does that include the cost of materials?

chrissyfp1

JW_here wrote: »

its gone in the skip... oups

Guess that's where mine is going as well!