My wooden front door has been looking pretty tatty for some time, so I decided to paint it this past weekend.
I bought some 'Weatherall' wood and metal exterior paint from Homebase, returned home, scraped and sanded the door so that it was smooth and any chips and flaking paint were removed, and got painting.
By the late afternoon, it was looking good, and I called it a day. Late that night (about 6 hours later), it was still very wet but we closed and locked up anyway. In the morning, it felt pretty dry (except in a couple of spots, but by that afternoon, it had blistered and lifted all over the place.
Anyone able to suggest what could be wrong? 🙁
sounds like a reaction between the old paint and the new (or you hadn't keyed the surface but that would normally mean the paint just lifted easily, not bubbled up).
Sounds like incompatible paint with what's already on but its very unusual for this to cause blistering. Are the blisters in the old paint or just the new?
Just the new as far as I can tell. I'll take a closer look when I get home later today.
Was the door nice and dry? No spots of water or owt?
Any knots under the blisters?
What paint did you use?
Is the new paint waterbased? It might be sissing on grease on previous paintwork, wouldn't describe it as blisters though...
Sorry, it was [url= http://www.homebase.co.uk/en/homebaseuk/homebase-weathercoat-rustic-brown---exterior-gloss-paint---25l-637366 ]precisely this paint that I bought and used[/url].
Unfortunately, I have no idea as to what the old paint was; I don't think it could have been painted in the last 20 years though.
Did you use a primer/undercoat first - normal before applying a gloss top coat.
I assumed not but was a bit surprised.
What could have happened is sometimes people think they can paint over gloss paint with new gloss paint without any prep....it's works for a while ...then it's starts to lift
And it's made even worse if you try to prep it for a new paint job
IMO ....strip all the paint off back to the bare wood and start fresh.....it's what I would do ..but then I'm a fussy sod!! 😀
Something's awry. I'd have expected it to be touch dry after six hours rather than "still very wet"
I'd be heading back to Homebase
What was the weather like? Humid?
I reckon the brush was faulty.