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Thank you What do you mean by costings? As in money? I think I'll brush off what paint I can and leave until October as you say. Is that the best time to do any remedial work?

This makes sense. Thank you. I imagine the walls would have been wetter given the direction they face, and so I can see how not giving them time to dry out before painting it would cause the paint to peel off. I imagine if we give it another year, most of the paint will have fallen off anyway.

Thank you for the tip.

Hello Everyone, About a year ago, we had the entire outside of the house re-rendered to replace the cement base render with a lime base render. The house is a late Victorian build (1880s) with no damp proof lining. The rendering was finished around March and painted soon after. Beeck Renosil Fine Mineral Paint (suitable for lime render) was then used after applying a Beeck Fixative first. Since then the paint has slowly been peeling off on all the walls that face south west (where most of our weather comes from). These walls are now just a mottled, patchy, cracked mess (see close up picture). I can confirm that the render itself is still solid and not shot. There are a couple of small hairline cracks in the render, but otherwise the rest of the cracking is in the paint work. I reached out to the supplier of the paint to try and find what's going on. I knew lime would be hard work, but I didn't expect this to happen on such a scale so soon. They suggested, I remove the paint and then repaint with a coarser Beeck Mineral paint first to fill the hairline cracks, and then paint with the finer Beeck mineral paint that was originally used. However, what they haven't told me, and what I'd like to ask here is: - Why has the paint not stuck, like it has on the North Eastern facing walls? - How do you remove paint off of the lime render without damaging the render? - Do I have to apply the Beeck Fixative for both the coarse paint layer and then the finer paint layer? Any insights would be gratefully received. Cheers Jonny