hiding terrible walls before painting

misgrace

melb wrote: »

lines are the spaces between the strips of lining paper. One thing I didn't really understand was why he did 3 walls vertical and 1 wall horizontal. I know 2 people who have had lining paper fitted recently and both times the decorator fitted it horizontally because he thought it was better and I must say you can't see their joins.

You would normally line horizontal if you are hanging finish paper on top of it, because of the width of paper, as you dont want your finish paper butt joines to be on top of the lining paper butt joins.

Was it by chance the window wall he lined horizontal?

By rights, there should be no gaps between the paper, except for a very slight gap, but sometimes no matter how you have plumbed the wall, and its straight all the way, sometimes when you come to say the third or fourth drop on the wall, it can be out, specially if the wall has a slight curve, which then would make the gap slightly bigger.
Or he just hasnt butted it enough, even so, it still could have been fixed, but if he taking the paper off, then let him do it again, he will probabaly get the joins perfect next time.:D

Edinburghlass_2

Personally I'd skim if I were you. Just finished doing the bathroom and the one wall that was papered shows every bump and lump so much so that I'm going to strip off the wallpaper and start again when I can get the plasterer back. It was always the worst wall in the house where you could see the joins of the plasterboard even with a good lining paper on and a good heavy finishing paper.

The advantage of skimming means you can then just paint rather than wallpapering and change your colour scheme at will. Having said that I love the paper I chose for the bathroom so it will be going back.

rabialiones

can you use gloss paint over paper,just coz its easier to wipe clean when the little ones leave their grubby handprints all over.
i find that normal matt or silk emulsion just comes off on the cloth when wiping over.
or , i can remember years ago, painter in my mums house used a paint called permoglaze. this lasted for years, and was easily cleaned with a a cloth, they just got rid of it coz they were fed up with the bright colour.

TomsMom

rabialiones wrote: »

can you use gloss paint over paper,just coz its easier to wipe clean when the little ones leave their grubby handprints all over.
i find that normal matt or silk emulsion just comes off on the cloth when wiping over.
or , i can remember years ago, painter in my mums house used a paint called permoglaze. this lasted for years, and was easily cleaned with a a cloth, they just got rid of it coz they were fed up with the bright colour.

Have you seen the Dulux Endurance paints. Supposed to be washable and 10 x tougher than ordinary paint. That might suit as you have little ones, although I expect it's a fair bit more expensive.

Crown also do an "Easyclean" paint, and Johnstones do a washable matt.

We've got a whole house to decorate so I've got all the paint charts at the moment :rotfl: .

jamtart6

we're getting ours reskimmed, expensive but worth it IMHO

longbaygirl

We have the same problem, but have old lathe and plaster walls, so once you try and take down the old paper, the whole wall collapses and you are just left with the little lathe? strips.

Is there any (cheaper) alternative.

latecomer

If the plaster has come off then you're going to have to get it re-done. Might be better to remove all the lath and have it plasterboarded.

Have you had quotes for getting it plastered?

longbaygirl

No - dreading the thought, but think you are right - no cheap shortcut.