I switched to wet-stripping the remaining wallpaper, and had less damage. Here’s what it looked like when I was done with the prep. Once that was dry, I sanded smooth, vacuumed, wiped off residual dust with a damp sponge, let dry, and then primed with Roman Ultra Prime Pro 977 and let dry. It’s pretty cool stuff.Īfter that dried, I applied a very thin skim coat of joint compound (which we call mud ). So to prepare it for wallpaper, I first sealed loose or dusty areas with GARDZ, which is a penetrating and hard-drying sealer for torn drywall or other unstable surfaces. But was still left with a wall with lots of irregular and un-smooth areas. The primer also has to dry completely, before wallpaper goes up. Nothing sticks to dust! So it’s imperative that, after vacuuming, you take a damp sponge – rinsed frequently – and wipe down the entire wall, and then let dry, before priming. That’s a likely reason why the primer / paint pulled away from the wall so easily. Second, I have a suspicion that, after skim-floating and then sanding the wall to smooth it, dust was left on the wall, and then trapped between the wall and the primer. So maybe this is just paint, or a paint primer. But, to be honest, a wallpaper primer is designed to let go of the wallpaper when you start to strip it off the wall. It’s a good thing, at least, that the previous installer used a primer, and hopefully one made for use under wallpaper. But it took some of the primer along with it. The paper came off in an intact sheet, as the mfgr promises. Dry-stripping the wallpaper resulted in this. It bugged the homeowner, and she wanted it to look better. Depending on where you’re standing in the room, and where light is coming from, the bubbles were somewhat noticeable, even with this busy patterned wallpaper. The homeowner’s contractor’s guy hung this accent wall in an under the stairs powder room. Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a Comment » Tags: bleed through, brackets, chalk, crayon, electrical, electrical boxes, fixtures, hand towel, handyman, hardware, holder, holes, hooks, ink, install, marker, mirror, mounting hardware, mountings, oil, oil pastel, paint, pastel, pen, pencil, powder room, prep, primer, sconces, skim-coat, skim-float, smooth, smooth over, smoothing compound, stains, taken out of the wall, textured, toilet paper holder, towel rack, TP holder, wall, wall anchors, wallpaper Never use a pen or marker or ink of any kind, or crayon or oil pastel chalk … all of these substances can bleed through smoothing compound, primer, paint, etc., and leave stains on the new wallpaper. Note: All of these marks and instructions were made with a pencil. (Keep your fingers crossed that he doesn’t muck up the new wallpaper in the process!) Hooks for mirror. This is extra nice for me, because I don’t have to dick around with removing and then replacing the light fixtures – the homeowners or their handyman will take care of all that. Two of these electrical boxes mark where the new sconces will be placed, once the wallpaper is up. Mountings for hand towel holder, new and old. I’m going to skim-float to smooth this textured wall, and that skim-coat will also smooth over and hide these holes. Here the homeowner has left notations that these brackets for the toilet paper holder should not be taken out of the wall.Ĭonversely, the wall anchors for the previous TP holder were not going to be needed, so I should cover them up. Sometimes, you can never get everything back as securely as it originally was. Then I replace everything when the wallpaper is up.īut in this case, some of the mounting hardware was tricky to install, so, it might be risky to remove them. Normally, I remove these fixtures, including the mounting hardware, so the wallpaper can go behind them. They had had new fixtures installed – toilet paper holder, towel rack, light sconces. So she left important info for me, easy to read and easy to understand. I love this! The client was away at work when I arrived to start prep for wallpaper in this powder room.
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