Coop painting question

[ImportTheBest]

Everything I read said to use semi gloss exterior paint to make clean up easy inside the coop. Well I couldn't afford to get flat for the exterior and semi gloss for inside, so everything is being painted with semi gloss.....but any flaps that touch (like the flap for the external nest boxes) STICK TOGETHER! And when I get them separated paint is being pulled off. I did prime under the paint and there are two coats of paint, but even once areas have been drying for days they still stick once they touch. I'm not super heavy handed with the paint, enough to coat without seeing the primer.

And I doomed to deal with this or am I missing something that stops connecting pieces from sticking together?

 

[coolcanoechic]

Is it really humid there right now? The humidity will cause it to take an excessively long time to dry. Put a stick in between to hold it open until it gets time to harden up.
Did the first coat of paint dry thoroughly before adding the second coat? Again, if the humidity caused it to not dry thoroughly, then the whole thing can get peeled off when you separate the pieces of wood.
Thirdly, did you paint over wet wood? If so, then you will see the same result.
Try using a stick to hold the pieces apart until the paint hardens up. You can tell this by pushing your fingernail into the paint.

 

[ImportTheBest]

Is it really humid there right now? The humidity will cause it to take an excessively long time to dry. Put a stick in between to hold it open until it gets time to harden up.
Did the first coat of paint dry thoroughly before adding the second coat? Again, if the humidity caused it to not dry thoroughly, then the whole thing can get peeled off when you separate the pieces of wood.
Thirdly, did you paint over wet wood? If so, then you will see the same result.
Try using a stick to hold the pieces apart until the paint hardens up. You can tell this by pushing your fingernail into the paint.

OK. It's 33% humidity. *hanging my head in shame* I let the first coat dry enough to paint over it easily. I've been feeling the time crunch lately and I didn't realize this would be an issue after doing that - I'm rather a newb to painting stuff bigger than tiny kid craft projects with acrylic paint.

Thankfully I can say without a doubt my wood was 100% dry - woot! Did something right! lol!

I have a dry washcloth as close to the hinges as possible, keeping the nest box door ajar with a relatively strong fan blowing on it, in the shade, on our open little porch. The washcloth doesn't seem to get stuck, so I'll stick to that fo now, moving it around a bit to make sure everything dries. Once it's dried for a while I'll change it out to my leftover clean paint stirrer stick.

I have had the fan on the entire time I've been painting. It's on slow when I'm painting or the paint forms a "skin" in my container while I paint, and then I put it on high to help it dry when I'm done painting.

 

[coolcanoechic]

It sounds like you just need to give it some time to harden up. I think it will be fine. Be patient.

 

[ImportTheBest]

Gosh I hope so!! Humidity is about to jump to 65-75% for the next 10 days, so I am going to bring it inside tonight to see if we can dry it out well enough to place it onto the coop and start adding hardware. Thanks so much for the help!

 

[coolcanoechic]

You're welcome