Flaking ceiling paint and cornice

Sounds good, free tomorrow? Is wed still ****** night at Dominique's?

I'd go half assed with it or re-sheet. Heat guns sounds like three quarter assed. To much ass for be

 

Villaboard? Primer undercoat just stops plasterboard, bricks etc from sucking up all the paint. Maybe take a photo and post it? I'm not sure I know what your dealing with

EDIT: Are you using the heat gun on rendered brick walls? Or is it just the ceiling?

 

There's no easy way out, it's one of those crap jobs that you'll be swearing about the whole time you're doing it.

 

The paper on the gyprock might be coming off too. Is the gyprock fluffy and lose, not compressed like hard chalk? Could be water damage. Is there a ceiling fan in there or good ventilation?

You can sheet over the old stuff you just need to know where the timbers are. Find them and mark them
I found Busting off the cornice with a garden spade works well, sliding against the wall and up

 

I'd look at replacing the ceiling in this instance. If you can get on to a plasterer who does small jobs on the hour and give him a hand with the lifting ect. it shouldn't cost too much and the finish will be much more presentable.

 

That's the thing , there are no timbers. It's on brick - we've got the quintessential WA double brick It is compressed like hard chalk, but easy to scrape away if that makes sense? It prob just needs sealing/priming - I'll do that and fingers crossed it sticks to the wall.

 

Sounds like cement render. I don't have much experience with it but I have previously patched it using sand and cement. You need a good few layers of primer over any new render you do because it was always be darker or lighter than the original render

 

I assumed ceiling.. My bad

Not familiar with that type of plastering. But makes sense, your getting sandy stuff coming off as you scrape.
Might be worth a call to a painter, could be like bricks fretting from water, gets lose from water. I'm not too sure to be honest
Is it just down low or all over?

 

Had a ceiling like that once, the person who originally painted it hadn't used a sealant, as our fresh coat of paint dried it lifted the original paint. I noticed it when I came in to assist the wife and FIL paint after I'd finished working N/S and they were onto the last room...big job using a scraper to tidy it all up and start again

Fun days (not).

 

Jess, If you're in Perth your ceiling is probably hard wall plaster which is a thin coat of smooth plaster which is applied over rendered walls. Using a heat gun to get the paint off of it probably won't do it much good..

 

You might be better off using a chemical stripper to get the paint off so you can minimise the damage

 

@Tim & Chrissy I can just peel it off with my hands, no stripper required.

 

I'm sure there's a 'stripper' joke on there somewhere, @bob shovel?

 

@Jess Peletier
Solid Plastering
Sounds like you may be scraping off the white set as the paint comes off.
Unfortunately a lot of home owners paint their own new homes without sealing the walls correctly before the top coats. In some cases I have seen the top coat of paint applied directly to the walls with no sealer at all!
I suggest talking to a paint store (Solver etc - not Bunnings) and getting advice on a sealer once you have finished taking all the old paint off.

 

I respect the "arts" to much to make jokes

 

Hi Stu, I think this is probably the case - no sealer at all. Yuck!

 

Painting is coming along good. I filled it with smooth coat filler and painted with British PAint 4 in 1 primer. No need to replace any ceiling.

 

A coat of ceiling white and your golden

 

Yea still looks abit ***** in the picture but yeah coat of flat ceiling and she'll be right

 

Before




After


All up I did ;

Bought house for 165k + 7k stamp duty
-curtains $200
-Paint (did myself ) $500 paint
-New hot water system( as usual !) $800
-Split ac ($1100)
-couple new doors ( $100)
-misc ($100)


Total cost about 176k

Should rent for $270-280
8%+ return

Frontage is over 20m so good for future development in time to come

The power of paint!

I was suprised how tidy the house looks now. As usual I had my doubts that I had about a mega ***** hole but as usual turned out OK