Often it’s because of cutting corners - not sanding, not scrubbing, painting just before a storm,ignoring long-term moisture penetration. About one in 10 paint job goes awry, says David Chupka, a technical manager for the Sherwin Williams Co. “But my neighbors had no previous paint problems, and they went by the book.” Dee has understandable sympathy for the Bowlers: Not long after his house was repainted, it began peeling so badly the south wall looked like a head of hair after a botched perm. “You can generally tell if you have a house that is going to peel if you probe around a bit,” Dee says. Layers of paint that had bonded to the house for decades came loose. The paint detached with such determination that some chips were embedded with cedar splinters from the underlying siding. It looked so good.” But within a year, as the Bowlers watched in horror, their labor-intensive paint job - and everything underneath - was flaking off in leathery sheets. I did it when I got home from work, I did it on Saturdays. “I scraped the whole house, rented a water gun, primed everything. Soon Robert was up on the ladder, hard at work. This Old House painter John Dee calls his neighbors Robert and Andrea Bowler “the epitome of diligent homeowners.” They bought their postwar Colonial in May two years ago, and a month later Andrea was down at the local hardware store, picking out new beige paint to lighten up the gloomy exterior. ![]() Before long, the south wall looked like a disaster zone. ![]() So Dee scraped off all the loose paint, spot-primed and repainted. He recommended stripping it down to bare wood, but the landlord didn’t want to spend the money. When he moved in, there was a coat of latex over several coats of oil, and it was beginning to peel. The paint on the house Dee rents went from bad to horrendous.
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