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• Primer drying time before wallpapering. - How long should you let primer dry over paneling before applying paintable textured wallpaper?
• Remove painted wallpaper. - Bedroom walls have been painted over existing wallpaper and you can see the joints through the paint. How do you remove paper and get a smooth wall to repaint?
• Painting Over Wallpaper - We have a raised relief wallpaper which we like a great deal but over time, parts of the relief have been gouged out. I understand I could use wallboard mud to fill in these gouges but wish to retain the raised relief the paper provides. There are...
• Painting fabric on walls. - I have some thick fabric walls that I want to paint. The fabric is not smooth but has some ticking and a wide weave. The fabric is glued to a wood back wall. Do you have any suggestions as to type of paint and method of application?
• Painting Mobile Home Walls - I have paper like wallpaper on the walls in my mobile home and have to redo my bedroom. I would like to know if I can paint on top of that and if so what kinds of paints work best. I am on a very limited budget and would like what works for for se...
• After removing wallpaper what is the next step? - After removing wallpaper should one sand the area where wallpaper was to prepare it for painting? What are the steps involved before painting?
• Wallpaper Removal - How do I remove wallpaper? The room I want to redo has paper that is really stuck to the wall. Could I possibly paint over it?
• Can we paint over vinyl paste without sanding? - About 20 years ago, we had a professional wallpaper hanger hang a commercial grade vinyl using commercial paste. As the vinyl is very thick, he obviously had to use a lot, and the vinyl was somewhat textured, not smooth. We removed the vinyl in ou...
• How do I remove wallpaper over green board? - We are having a complete bathroom remodel. I am stripping the wallpaper. All of the walls are of greenboard. The top part of the wall near the ceiling has been a breeze to strip. It just comes right off. The lower half of the wall is more difficul...
• Texturizing Over Wallpaper - Can you texturize walls that have wallpaper on them and then paint or do you need to remove the wallpaper first?
• Repairing Walls After Stripping Wallpaper - How can I prepare a wall for paint that has the wall paper stripped, yet some of the drywall face has also come off? I am stripping the paper in a bathroom, but find that in doing so some of the top of the actual drywall is coming up also. Is t...
• How do I paint over walls that have been wallpapered? - Bedroom walls are wallpapered a number of times and I just want to paint over the paper, but I don't want it to look like that is what I did. How do you cover the seams in the wallpaper so it isn't so obvious? When you watch some of the makeover s...
• Can we texturize then paint over the layer of glue that is left after peeling off the wallpaper? - We took down wallpaper that is 30 years old and the residual glue stayed on in a layer. While trying to get the glue off with water and a spatula, we found that the top layer of sheetrock is coming off. Can we do something like texturize over the ...
• What do I do if I can't get the remaining wallpaper glue off my wall? - I have a 10 year old house and I removed the wallpaper and chair rail from my breakfast room, including an 8 inch strip of heavy trim-type wallpaper below the chair rail. The upper section of wall came clean easily after removing the wallpaper, bu...
• Can you paint over wallpaper? - We currently live with my father in-law and everything is wallpaper. We took wallpaper down in our son's room however they used no primer on the drywall prior to putting up the wallpaper plus they used wallpaper glue. Long story short the walls...
• Peeling Paint While Stripping Wallpaper - I was stripping wall paper that was put up near the ceiling as a border and the paint under it started peeling. I started to peel away the ends that were sticking up and I have peeled most of the paint off of the wall. Presently I can see the d...

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