We did it the hard way as well Yadreamin
whilst renovating a new purchase we painted throughout, however once the ceilings were done and dry the paint started to resemble crocodile skin, then cracked/crazed and started to lift all the way back to the gyprock..in "every" room
"Is the paint off", we thought?
Trundled down to the local paint shop and were told that if the original painter had not sealed the ceiling prior to painting, then our paint would be lifting the original paint as it dried (bugger
)Solution
Spent a few days scraping all the ceiling paint off in each room, purchased a sealant from the paint shop (wasn't bondcrete) and sealed the ceilings, waited a day or so and repainted. Only area that had a bad response was the architraves in the bathroom area, this started to have hairline cracks/crazing which then lifted (due to moisture in that room we thought), a second effort fixed it though (maybe we just missed it the first time round?).
All in all fun for all the family (not) hiring a painter is much easier, previously I only used them to do the doors and door frames
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