Fascia paint peeling

Why is it peeling? Is it just old? Make sure it's not getting water behind it.

Scrape, sand, and prime. Then paint

Like mentioned, what material is the fascia?

If the builders used treated, then it may have been still wet when they painted it and that will usually lead to peeling as the moisture works its way out.

How was it prepped prior to painting? Good primer, sanded and they good topcoat paint?

Was the fascia new and unpainted when it went up or is this from an older application and it is now peeling?

If the latter, perhaps the person who painted it didn't prep it right by sanding to get good adhesion with the new paint, especially if using latex.


ETA: Try sanding it in a few spots and if the paint just balls up and rolls off, it is latex over unprepped painted wood underneath. I've run into this problem when DIY types think painting just involves putting a new coat of paint over the old and skip the prep work.

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I's metal and only about 6 years old.

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Well that sucks. Tell me, is the area that is peeling getting the afternoon sun during the hottest part of the day?

Metal is going to expand and contract much more than any wood material. Also, if not primed with the proper primer, it is going to be more prone to fail.

I really don't have much experience in painting metal other than porch railings, old wrought iron fencing, etc. so I'll step back and let someone with more experience guide you on how to handle this.

With any painting job, prep is the key and the most time consuming part.

I have a local Sherwin Williams store that offers excellent advice on my jobs.

I had the same situation at my previous house. Every time we had a thunderstorm roll through I would find pieces flaked off in the yard. Mine was the metal fascia as well. I finally just ended up peeling it off then bought self etching primer and white spray paint and repainted everything. It didn’t look the greatest but better than your fascia looking like it has mange. I ended up putting gutters up and it hid 90 percent of it. My whole neighborhood had the fascia peeling off. I paid a painter to paint the fascia over my garage because it was cheaper to have it do it than to buy the extension ladder. He scraped sanded and painted it with an oil based rustoleum paint you can buy at the box stores.

I would say to put some tarps down cause those flakes break easily and are a pain in the arse to get out of the yard. They don’t break down and probably took about 6 months of grass cutting before I didn’t see them anymore. The hardest part is getting the stuff that is still bonded, but if you have a sander and some 220 grit sand paper and 400 grit is what I used. It took me several weekends to get everything done but I wasn’t doing it all day on the weekend.