What would cause paint to bubble after being painted?
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These photos are of our kitchen walls? We live in a rented apartment that has recently been completely renovated and these bubbles are on several of the kitchen and bathroom walls after being painted the first week of June.
Thank You In Advance'
Shannon G
lynchburg,VA.
looks like nails popping through
I would take pictures of the problem, and send them a certified letter return receipt requested (green postcard) of the damage stating you will not be responsible. Keep copies of everything.
It does look like the drywall nails popping up, versus having used screws that were slightly below the drywall surface.
The thing is I can feel and push on the bubbles. They are in several random places on the kitchen walls and in the bathroom walls abd ceiling.
This type of bubbling often occurs when you use a latex paint over an oil paint without first using a primer. It can also occur if a latex flat is used over a high gloss paint.
This kind of a problem does not show up immediately, but rather over the course of days/weeks. Any any case, a primer should have been used, or at the very least a paint w/primer. Notify your landlord/property manager and let them know you expect it to be taken care of immediately. They will need to sand out the bubbles, prime and then paint. It is not your responsibility, my advice, do not take it on.
Defintiely not a clean spot when they painted and for sure the wrong paint like mentioned already.
I wouldn't go with anything else rather than oil paint in a kitchen. I did the same mistake as you and use the latex paint when I renovated my kitchen last year. Everything looked OK but then after a few months I realize that I would have to redo the whole thing from scratch due to the bad quality. In order to avoid doing the same mistakes again and to save time since I didn't have extra free days to take from the office I called in https://www.paintingservicesingapore.sg/ Who told me that this was the main issue for that occurrence. Another thing that surprised me was the speed that they did the work. I thought I would have to pay more due to the extra days required, but it seemed to work out just fine.