Hakan,

Thanks for your comment.  Yes, I am sure you are right.  The problem in the 
past has been the wrong choice of paint, not allowing moisture to penetrate 
through the paint.  Most of the damage happened before I got the house, and I 
need to make sure the next paint chosen will allow moisture penetration.

Glenn


I take the adobe surface problem first, are you sure that you used suitable 
paint for it. To me it sounds like the paint seals up at the surface and 
this would then be an expected problem. The choice of paint is very 
critical and it must allow the humidity to pass through, any collection of 
water on the back side of the paint will give you the problems you 
describe. Many historical buildings have been destroyed by modern paints 
and other techniques. I had a 350 year old farmhouse in Sweden and 
restoring that meant a lot of study in old building techniques and 
understanding of how and why they were done that way. To understand old 
traditional buildings is not always easy, but most of the techniques have a 
rational explanation. I saw a lot of failed renovations and almost all of 
them was because of sealing the construction too much, but not totally, 
with modern materials and especially unsuitable paint.

Hakan


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