Painting - Need to Vent....air bubbles

Hi.

Okay, I've been painting two bedrooms in a house my wife and I bought about 4 months ago. We picked out the colours, bought better quality everything. Both bedrooms had a latex paint in them to begin with, including the ceiling.

Anyways, we primed everything, let it dry, then today applied coat # 1. Want to guess what happened?

Air Bubbles.

Now, before you hit that reply button, by the look of the bubbles, it's not our fault (per se). The paint adhered to the primer, and the primer adhered nicely to the paint below. No problems there. When picking away the air bubble though, what came up was the original latex wasn't original, but had been painted over what looks like an oil-based paint without the benefit of a primer. ARRRGGGG. So our paint is adhering to and lifting off the old paint from and even older oil-based coat.

Sorry....just needed to vent. I love suprises like that.

I assume this is a fairly old house ?? Flat oil on bedroom walls was common but enamel wasn't - not to say that your's isn't oil enamel.

There is a possiblity that the bubbles will disappear on their own. I wouldn't pick at them unless you intend to strip all the latex paint off of the walls. It can take latex paint a week or more to cure.

Thanks Marksr, but I think you underestimate the strenght of my A-type personality and my OCD. I did find a "solution" though, I sanded the offending areas down and applied a good amount of primer. Then, when it dried, I very lightly sanded the now goopy looking primer areas flat and painted again. Voila, can't really even notice the repair.

I'm still miffed though. I never thought to leave the bubbles alone to see if they'd take care of themselves.

Now, if I could just find the magic bullet way to cut to the ceiling with a sharp-straight line instead of having small little goops here and there that again extremely offend my A-type personality.

"if I could just find the magic bullet way to cut to the ceiling with a sharp-straight line"

No magic bullet needed, just a good quality brush and lots of practice, heavy on the practice :D