Please please help. Brand new paint job is chipping and flaking already.

[brisbanegal]

Hi all,

We recently had our old Queenslander painted but the whole thing has become a big mess. We were advised by a Dulux Colour Consultant to use Acrylic paint rather than enamel (as it wouldnt go yellow) but 2 days after the painter finished the carpets were laid and there is a bunch of nicks and scuff marks all around the bottom skirting boards. Is this because we used acrylic rather than enamel (as the carpet man implied)? Is is possibily due to our painter not doing correct prep work?
We cant afford to repaint the whole thing again so is there any product that I can put over the existing job that will protect the skirting boards? I have 3 kids so imagine everything will get a lot of wear and tear.
I have a feeling our painter took short-cuts but Im desperate as we've just paid $10K for the whole house to be painted like this and once the furniture goes in I can only guess there will be many more bumps and scraps to the walls - surely paint should last longer than this?

Any advice would be great as I have no idea.

Thanks

[JB1]

If it's flaking off, the painter hasn't prepared/undercoated the boards correctly as acrylic won't go over oil without doing prepping it first.

Scuff marks is due to the paint, not the painters fault.

[Bloss]

Newly painted surfaces remain quite soft for some time - weeks at least regardless of being water or oil based. A carpet layer doing his regular work only 2 days after painting of skirting boards would find it almost impossible not to mark & damage the panted surface even if they new and took great care - carpet underside is very abrasive and the laying process means it rubs up against skirtings - perhaps walls. I would normally leave the final coat on skirtings until after coverings are down, but of course that is often not possible, especially if you are paying a painter.

Summary - the carpet layer might have been able to take more care, but I don't think this is anyone's 'fault' - certainly not the paint consultant or painter. I would be re-coating the skirtings only and you should then have many years of good wear. Have you talked to the painter? They might come back and do it for you - that would be quicker and they will have all the drop sheets etc.

[shauck]

Newly painted surfaces remain quite soft for some time - weeks at least regardless of being water or oil based. A carpet layer doing his regular work only 2 days after painting of skirting boards would find it almost impossible not to mark & damage the panted surface even if they new and took great care - carpet underside is very abrasive and the laying process means it rubs up against skirtings - perhaps walls. I would normally leave the final coat on skirtings until after coverings are down, but of course that is often not possible, especially if you are paying a painter.

Summary - the carpet layer might have been able to take more care, but I don't think this is anyone's 'fault' - certainly not the paint consultant or painter. I would be re-coating the skirtings only and you should then have many years of good wear. Have you talked to the painter? They might come back and do it for you - that would be quicker and they will have all the drop sheets etc.

Totally agree. Not the painters fault. It takes weeks for paint to harden sufficiently. You should not have gone near them. If you get the painter to re-do another coat, you should pay them for the work.

[Gaza]

Carpet layers kicker has done it, no point talking to painter

[r3nov8or]

Carpet layers kicker has done it, no point talking to painter
...unless you want them to paint it, of course...

[amiaow]

Just give it a light sand back with 120 grit paper and put another coat on top- problem solved.

[goldie1]

Carpet layers kicker has done it, no point talking to painter

Don't agree. What Bloss said is on the money. Carpet a couple of days after paint is asking for problems.

[shauck]

Don't agree. What Bloss said is on the money. Carpet a couple of days after paint is asking for problems.

I don't think Gaza was blaming it on the carpet layer, just pointing to how it may have happened that the soft paint ended up that way. If no one had touched it, it would have been given a chance to harden.

The carpet layer could have just looked at it :U

[Gaza]

I don't think Gaza was blaming it on the carpet layer, :U

Yea I was these guys are the joke of entire industry waste of space wingers they must learn in prison how to lay carpet.

Can not belive they are considered a trade. The traffic controller is more of a trade than these idiots.

One story

On high rise units in middle of city the site rules are long shirt, long pants, glasses, steel caps, hard hat abd gloves from when you walk on the gate.

Catching the lift up one day there are 3 carpet layers in shorts singlets and dunlop volleys they must have througt they were at the beach

[r3nov8or]

Yeah, can't trust a trade that measures to the nearest centimetre! :p

[shauck]

Yea I was these guys are the joke of entire industry waste of space wingers they must learn in prison how to lay carpet

:rotfl:

Better send this guy back to prison then.