Why is My Paint Bubbling? Do you have bubbling paint on ceilings, or bubbling paint on walls? The causes can either be water leaking in the walls or that the walls were never primed before painting when the builder hung the fresh drywall. It’s basic painting 101, but so many painting contractors get it wrong. When you hang new drywall, you cannt just paint the drywall, you must roll on or spray on a drywall primer first, or the paint will not adhere properly. Some time down the road you’ll have bubbling paint on walls and even bubbling paint on plaster walls.
In this video we’ll show you how to fix bubbling paint on walls, and this applies to repairing paint bubbles on ceilings too. If you find paint bubbles on ceiling after painting, just like with bubbling paint on walls, the cause is likely because the original paint job was never primed first. Painters are the laziest profession we have seen, and often choose time and money over quality, coming in for the quick spray down of paint, and no primer. When you try to DIY fix fix bubbling paint on walls, keep in mind that priming over multiple layers of existing paint does you no good, because the if the builder never primed the walls first, you are out of luck. When you hang new drywall you must apply paint and primer, not just paint first.
How you can tell if the builder originally correctly primed the walls before painting the walls and ceilings
If you see your wall paint is bubbling, or wall paint is flaking off, the reason this wall paint is peeling off, is because they never painted on any primer prior to the painting top coat. The primer is needed to seal the drywall paper and to give the paint something to grab onto. Also you’ll notice after you prime the wall first that th epaint goes on so effortlessly, and spread and covers better. You will not have paint bubbles on walls that you primed, and you won’t be stuck trying to figure out how to how to remove paint bubbles from walls afterwards. No more paint bubbles on ceiling for you.
how to remove paint bubbles from wall
If the wall paint is flaking off or the wall paint is bubbling or your wall paint is peeling off, then you should use a stiff scrape to peel the paint off the wall, and keep getting the tool underneath the paint and slice it right off the wall up to the point where the paint is stuck to the wall and won’t peel off nay further.
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