Painting after stripping wallpaper.

Monaou2

Hi

We have bought a house recently and are looking to start updating the decor. In particular we want to paint one small(ish) room - but over time the whole house will have to be done. The walls have wallpaper covering at the moment and it is very old. As we strip the wallpaper it is evident that the wall condition underneath isn't great (there will be some holes to be filled etc).

We are getting painters in to do the work and have been quoted three different options after stripping the wallpaper:
1. Re-cover the walls with special wallpaper and paint over this
2. Use polybond and Airtex (I think) on the wall before painting
3. Getting a plaster in to do a full skim of the walls.

It would be great to get people's experiences of the different options.

My feeling is that painting over the new wallpaper would never really look right (would you see lines etc.)? But on the other hand would a full skim be overkill and might it involve moving out plugs, door frames etc?

We want to do the job right when we are going at it at all.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Ceepo

Monaou2 wrote: »

Hi

We have bought a house recently and are looking to start updating the decor. In particular we want to paint one small(ish) room - but over time the whole house will have to be done. The walls have wallpaper covering at the moment and it is very old. As we strip the wallpaper it is evident that the wall condition underneath isn't great (there will be some holes to be filled etc).

We are getting painters in to do the work and have been quoted three different options after stripping the wallpaper:
1. Re-cover the walls with special wallpaper and paint over this
2. Use polybond and Airtex (I think) on the wall before painting
3. Getting a plaster in to do a full skim of the walls.

It would be great to get people's experiences of the different options.

My feeling is that painting over the new wallpaper would never really look right (would you see lines etc.)? But on the other hand would a full skim be overkill and might it involve moving out plugs, door frames etc?

We want to do the job right when we are going at it at all.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

If it'd done right then I would go with no1. Cross line the walls with lining paper. Use 10 gauge. This is the thickness on the paper, comes in 8,10, 12 etc. 10 is what I would normally use.
Get any holes filled 1st. Then sand the entire wall, cross line then paint as normal.
Again if it's done right it will be fine.

If the walls are very bad then (chunks of plaster falling off) then you will have no choice only to re skim.

Artex would be the last thing I would go for as it will leave a textured (rough) finish.

Hope this helps

Citroen2cv

I had the same issue in my 1970's house. None of the walls were ever skimmed, but had the wallpaper (woodchip in most rooms) applied straight on to them when new.
For our hallway, we had a painter strip the wallpaper, but he said it was too bad to patch up and paint, so he suggested skimming.
The plasterer applied blu-grit before skimming.
Looks great now.

Monaou2

Thank you both for your replies - very helpful.

Think I'll keep well clear of the artex so - doesn't sound like great finish.

My preference if artex doesn't work would be to get the walls skimmed - but I'm just worried that sockets will have to be moved out and a lot of extra work done around Windows, doors etc.

The first room I'm doing is small so maybe if I try to painting in the 10 paper here and see how it looks - atleast if I'm not happy with the finish its only a small room.

So far we have removed aeroboard tiles that were on the ceiling and they were each held in place with atleast 4 blobs of glue which took away a layer to get off, so ceiling looks very patchy already - and that's before getting all the wallpaper off tgevwalks that is taking a layer with it too!

Thanks again!