Hi,

I have a wall which "attacked" by aqueous vapor from neighbour..According to my painter, my wall paint will bubble and fallen out very soon..

He said those shop just want to sell the water-resistant chemical (防水) and said can solve the problem..but he already done a lot of experiment and been faced this issues a lot of time..He insisted, even I put water-resistant chemical (防水), my wall paint still can't last for more than 3 months..Even he consulted ICI dulux specialist, they also said no solution unless we STOP the aqueous vapor..

anyone here been success to solve this problem?

thanks for advices

This post has been edited by tiensong: Oct 7 2011, 10:48 AM

hope not water leak.....I am not sure where the aqueous vapor come from....maybe beside is toilet or soil underground.....I notice my wall turned brown(sign of water) after a while...and when torch with hand, you will feel it...

and the paint of other part of wall is fine..stick strongly..but for those part attacked by aqueous vapor, you will notice the paint can't stick on the wall and fallen out easily after a while..

This post has been edited by tiensong: Oct 7 2011, 11:14 AM

i suspect maybe soil...because neighbour house is higher than me...

If the water come from underground soil, it is very hard to check.....even if water pipe leakage underground, I also feel impossible to replace/repair it...

This post has been edited by tiensong: Oct 7 2011, 11:36 AM

If I notice earlier, maybe can hack the plastering wall until bricks and place a layer of tar (according to my painter) before plastering again...

but my house is in painting stage and get ready to finish up all the things and move in...

seems like nothing I can do now...maybe need to visit neighbour house one day...

donno what will happen to my new paint after few months...headache...

Tiles, skirting..everything already done...if now I going to hack the wall again, i need to redo a lot of things...

redo wall plastering and skim coating..some more if tiles and skirting got problem, need to do tiling again...waste a lot of money...

haiz...tired....

any good solution which is easy to implement?

This post has been edited by tiensong: Oct 7 2011, 12:08 PM

paint sealer is not used to solve the vapour problem..you may read the description on the container...

agree with you, within 6 months sure will start chipping out...

I agree with you, solve the problem before moving in....

but my renovation almost a year and both I and my wife already very tired...

we try to change and modify as much as we can to make it better...a long the road, we already used a lot of money...

few days ago, I felt happy and thought everything will be smooth and we can move in very soon....

suddenly, today painter inform me about this problem...after discuss with him, I found out that there is no solution unless stop the source.....

my mood very down now....

kidney can cost how much?

wow....not bad....can consider....

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Added on October 7, 2011, 3:23 pmI have an idea, can we wallpaper the wall? will the wallpaper fallen out too?


This post has been edited by tiensong: Oct 7 2011, 03:23 PM