[Libertine]

The is a brick home and the window trim paint is spliting. The thing is, using a 5-in-1, the cracking edges dont want to come up and they're not really that loose. The homeowners main concern is that it not peel again in two years, like her next door neighbor's house did. Anyone have advice on how to best tackle this? Peel Bond? Is this the result of the bricks expanding and contracting?

 

[timhag]

Looks like a moister problem to me. Also looks like there is some damaged wood. For those checking out these photos, click on them to enlarge.

 

[Purdygirl]

Looks like a crappy paint job to me... like the last painter didn't sand at all, just put one coat (you can see in the 2nd pic how it didn't cover and the old color was dark brown) maybe there's some old lead based paint under there that cracked, it looks like that sometimes. Especially if it's hard and won't come off at the cracks.

 

[timhag]

Looks like a crappy paint job to me... like the last painter didn't sand at all, just put one coat (you can see in the 2nd pic how it didn't cover and the old color was dark brown) .

I saw that aslo, I would take it down to the wood and start over. Hopefully there isn't any moister or damaged problems under that crappy job.

 

[slickshift]

Is that wood trim?
Looks like crappy one coat directly over dark stain

 

[tavennerpride]

Anybody else not being able to get the pictures to even load. Just the stupid red X every time. WTF?

 

[Libertine]

Weird, i guess i exceeded my bandwidth? Dunno. I just re-uploaded them.

 

[slapiton]

I painted a older house earlier this year with the same problem on all the windows. I think this is also a moisture problem. I primered it with a oil base primer and then a thin coat of auto body filler (bondo). Sand smooth,primer, and paint. Turned out great. Homeowner was estatic.

 

[ewingpainting.net]

This just looks like CHEAP paint that was used. Stripe, sand, sand, sand, sand, prime and paint.......

 

[NACE]

That looks like one of two things: An incompatiblility issue, or the original coat of paint being stressed by a newer layer of paint. As disparate flexibility rates occur between coats, the oldes film no longer has viability or flexibility. A new coat of paint has flexibility and as the new paint moves it breaks the adhesive strenght of the film that is sticking to the wood. Looks like someone put a paint stripper on at some point, and did not rinse or remove it entirely. Moisture would likely show some blistering or some kind of staining in my opinion. Remove to a bare, stable substrate, primer with an alkyd enamel underbody, top coat of choice.

 

[stansoph]

Looks like a crappy faux job.