Guys

So our house is about five years old. I decided to ‘tidy up’ paint the outside kitchen,it's nearly a fully enclosed area, well the ceiling and what are basically the ‘inside’ walls anyway.

I did notice that some of the paint on the ceiling had lifted but scraped the areas, filled and sanded smooth, I hoped that that I might get away with just doing that.

I bought some TOA Shield-1 ‘A’ Base, it looks close to brilliant white and started to roller the ceiling. Then areas of where I had rollered started to lift, the original paint had obviously come ‘unstuck” and was lifting.

So I assume that it’s no good trying to go over with something like Dulux Weathershield Power + Primer and that I will have to get the whole ceiling scraped off…..This is the only option? I’ll see if I can bribe one of the local workers to do the scraping.

The walls are fine and take the paint ok.

In the UK we never use a primer for ceilings after the initial painting. I do realize that when I get the outside of the house repainted something like the above primer must be used but I didn’t think that it was necessary when re-painting a ceiling.

Chances are your ceiling is getting water. (?) Otherwise and if the ceiling is the gypsum, it seems it should not be sloughing. Maybe fix that first (the water problem). (?)

Chances are your ceiling is getting water. (?) Otherwise and if the ceiling is the gypsum, it seems it should not be sloughing. Maybe fix that first (the water problem). (?)

Yes..it did get wet in places...has now been fixed and no longer is a problem. Guess I'll first try just scraping the lifting areas, filling and painting.

If the gypsum got wet, chances are you're not going to be able to do much with it. You might consider tearing out the damaged areas and re-fitting/re-taping with new.