bubbles!
So we recently painted a massive house. It was smooth finish stucco. Very impressive when you stand in front of it all. Challenging? yes. Fairly simple and strait forward. Spray two coats of flexprime and one coat of Finish. Some minor scraping and away we go. Existing issues? well the house was painting the first time with elastomeric. So it already had pre existing issues. Overspray on some windows, paint drops here and there, and some debree that was on the walls from the spraying the dirt up to the wet paint done previosly before. So after the entire house was done. Walk through time came & the contractor did not like the bubbles or the debree. We then took a couple of days and scraped every bubble and sanded it out so the pit wouldnt be there…… 5 hours later we had advanced maybe 20ftx10ft of the wall. After it was all said and done primed and painted the bubbles still managed to come back. This is the point I am realizing that the underlying issue is at hand. The elastomeric wasnt fully bonding throughout the house. We did manage to make the areas better. We used primer on the ENTIRE home. We also power washed the home entirely. I did the job properly. Yet an issue was still there. I took six days of labor towards fixing a few areas and lost money in doing so. I finally took a stand and said my job was done properly. So therefore the issues coming up are not my fault. A good lesson to learn. Sometimes RARE times, it is the product or existing conditions that cause it fail. Trying to fix things is ok. Lets not forget that if we do things the way they are supposed to be done. there is no reason why we should be held accountable for something out of our hands
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