Paint failure

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Jimk
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Some south facing exterior timber window frames were painted with Leyland undercoat & gloss topcoat, both oil based. The wood was in sound condition, and the old paint was all stripped off due to its poor condition. Now the paint is flaking badly a year later! How can a repeat of this failure be avoided?

NT

Reply to
tabbypurr

Chemicals from previously stripped paint leaching from the wood and attacking the undercoat???? Perhaps a paint formulated as a sealer applied first?

Reply to
alan_m

Fo a similar problem I am planning to cover the top coatwith a marine (yacht) varnish.

Reply to
Michael Chare

That is a fairly decent quality paint so it almost certainly has to be bad preparation of the surface to be painted or moisture still trapped in the wood when it was painted. Frost or excessive temperature variation before the paint had fully cured might be a possibility too.

Do you have a picture of a flake (underside) and the surface it flaked off?

It is the top coat only or is the undercoat and top coat coming away from the wood surface. South facing is the most stressful direction for a painted surface to face but it should last a lot longer than that.

Reply to
Martin Brown

or the wood has dried out. I solved this problem once, but putting linsead oil on the wood and letting it soak in before painting.

Reply to
charles

The only chemicals on/in the wood are any traces from the previous paint, which was also alkyd and didn't fail prematurely. So I don't think the issue is chemical residue this time.

NT

Reply to
tabbypurr

I've always been happy with Leyland, pretty good stuff. But this batch was problematic to apply. It had no interest in covering even the tiniest of microcracks on the previous paint, so every little bit had to come off.

Surface prep was a thorough scrape off. No chemicals were used, no water. All cracks were filled with linseed putty, which I've never known to have a problem with alkyd gloss. Layers applied were Leyland undercoat (alkyd) & Leyland gloss topcoat. The wood was dry. Weather was too warm for frost. I'll pull some flakes off later for closer inspection.

NT

Reply to
tabbypurr

Is it a dark colour? Brian

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Brian Gaff (Sofa)

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