Paint is just flaking and peeling off the walls of my apartment!!!?

Question

Just moved in to an older building and they painted it all right before i moved in....but it's just coming off everywhere.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Answer 1

shut down your meth lab

Answer 2

could have been moisture

but maybe the walls originally had oil based paint and they repainted with latex. It won't stick!
Now, you can paint oil (alkyd) over latex but not the other way around very successfully.

If they painted it too heavy or too many coats before drying in between, it could peel.

If they sprayed it with a commercial sprayer, again, too thick, it could peel.

anyway you slice it or dice it, it's a lot of work to fix. It will have to be completely scraped off, primed with a good primer and then repainted with a good quality paint.

Answer 3

It depends on how big the space heater is. Even a big one would only wreck the paint if it was right up against the wall. Sound's like your landlord is a dirt bag. I would look for another place to live.

Answer 4

Sounds like they tried to paint over oil-based paint with water-based paint...if that's the case, then it will keep flaking and there's nothing you can do except for scrape and repaint. The owner should be responsible for doing it again, correctly this time.

Answer 5

Whoah sweetie, you better take pictures of the walls just so you have them, then go talk to your landlord and tell them. It is their responsibility, not yours, to make your walls right. If they don't comply I would ask for my money back and if they refused..small claims court. They must have used super cheap paint or had some kind of moisture problem with the walls. They need to fix it.

Answer 6

we had to put on a special paint that covers up the marks.
You have to get all the paint peelings off and repaint.

Us paint that will cover water marks (cant remember the name, home depot should know)

Put on a primer paint,then your color of paint.

Answer 7

if your building was built before 1978 then that may be lead-based paint that is coming off. the landlord should fix this pronto

Answer 8

Contact the landlord or manager right away. They should make it right and at the very least you want it on record when it started to happen and wasn't anything you did---protect your security deposit.

Answer 9

umm.. maybe they didnt use like a good paint *-) ii guess u could use like a fixative for it too... for the rest of the paint

Answer 10

most likely they did NOT prep the walls first and something in this case REALLY needed to be preped prior to applying paint... either way document it so they dont blame you