Bubbles and peeling on silk paint

Hi all,

New to the forum, been lurking for some time

I recently painting 2 coats of silk in a room with no room. Left it a few days and then went back to touch up a few areas with teh roller where is was a little patchy. the areas I have painted for the 3 time now have small bubbles on them. SO i busted but now they keep peeling creating large holes. left it a day and then tried priming it with acrylic primer. Even the primer bubbled though (over the silk paint but no bubbled over the bare patches that where peeled off.

Do anyone know why this is happening and how to solve it?

The heating hasnt been on as I am not living there yet, but the room is around 10-12oC

Thanks in advance

S

 

Hi Astramax, yes I washed it with sugar soap, second coat applied when first was dry and the walls havent been plastered in some time, assuming since built (1992)

 

thanks for all the replies folks, much appreciated

 

so still no joy with this folks. Tried laying on silk thick but more bubbles. so then sanded and layed on two coats of acrylic primer thick which didnt bubble and then tried silk over but it bubbled again. I am thicking of stripping back a good 2 metres square of the wall and letting it air out a few days and trying again. Though there is no way that water could be under the silk. I have attached a recent pic of the bubbles

 

so here is where i am at lol. I sanded down the bubbles then sprayed with oil based primer. only a handful of bubbles appeared. then rolled over with the silk. where the primer was, no bubbles appeared but bubbles appeared around the edge of the primer where it met existing silk.

Back to square one. So i sanded the entire room to remove bubbles and provide a key on the slk paint. then painted with matt emulsion. the same thing is happening! bubbles on all walls now. It got me thinking that the 3rd coat of silk was probably a dodgey one? I THINK i shook the can instead of stiring, could that be the reason? either way any paint going on is causing bubbles now and I really don't fancying painting the entire room with oil based paint

Unsure what to do next? this room is doing my head in lol

 

would there be any alternative than painting the entire room with oil based primer? just dont feel comfortable about the fumes over time

 

Hi all. Apologies about the late update. Just been up to my eyeballs with this house.


So the paint is homebase own brand, as the colour wasn’t available in any other brand. They told me to visit the store (some distance!) with the paint and they will sort me out.


I visited the store and then weren’t’t very useful, in fact, they put me on the phone to their helpline. They offered a full refund but that wouldn’t have sorted the walls, I wanted them to get a tradesman to sort it. They weren’t’t quite sure how it could have happened so said they will be in touch to arrange an independent visit from tradesman to inspect.

I waited and waited but no call and impatiently just decided to try something new...peel the paint. I don’t know why i didn’t’t think of it in the first place lol. It took about 7 draining hours but I peeled every single bit of paint off the walls, which came off like driedt skin. ...finally the walls were back to normal and I coated them with 2 coats of matt paint and the room now looks fine.


Still no word from homebase...