Help with painting a wall please!

goingbonkers

Hi all,
I've read some of the previous posts but there seems to be so much varying advice out there I'd thought I'd best ask the question afresh!

I've removed wallpaper from a bedroom wall, underneath was lining paper which got damaged, so I started stripping this off only to discover a patchy yellow paint job underneath! The paint was bubbling and peeling off as I was using a wallpaper steamer. What's left are big patches of paint, flaky in some areas, and large patches of unsealed bare plaster.

I've a painter coming tomorrow morning and I don't know what to do next for the best?!

Should I sand it down as best I can, sugar soap it and ask the painter to do a mist coat with non-vinyl matt before painting?
Or should I buy some high-grade lining paper and ask him to put that on before painting? (He does wallpaper too so he should be able to do a good job with this).

Any help appreciated!
Thanks!

snit_girl

I actually had the exact same problem last week. Old peeling paintwork under wallpaper and worse where an even older border used to be.

We sanded down the walls, put on some cheap homebase lining paper and painted over it and it looks brilliant.

The walls underneath were terrible looking (looked worse after my brother had a go with the sander and took chunks out) but after sanding they felt smooth and when papered and painted you can hardly even see the joins in the paper.

Might still be best to ask your painter but that's what we did and I'm really pleased with it.

McKneff

goingbonkers wrote: »

Hi all,
I've read some of the previous posts but there seems to be so much varying advice out there I'd thought I'd best ask the question afresh!

I've removed wallpaper from a bedroom wall, underneath was lining paper which got damaged, so I started stripping this off only to discover a patchy yellow paint job underneath! The paint was bubbling and peeling off as I was using a wallpaper steamer. What's left are big patches of paint, flaky in some areas, and large patches of unsealed bare plaster.

I've a painter coming tomorrow morning and I don't know what to do next for the best?!

Should I sand it down as best I can, sugar soap it and ask the painter to do a mist coat with non-vinyl matt before painting?
Or should I buy some high-grade lining paper and ask him to put that on before painting? (He does wallpaper too so he should be able to do a good job with this).

Any help appreciated!
Thanks!

First of all the painter should be doing all the preparing. My oh was a painter & decorator for 40 plus years and preparing the surfaces was always part of the job and the most important part. Unless of course you have already arranged this with him to save on costs. If he is a bona fide decorator dont tell him how to do the job,(ie mist coat) its very irritating to a professional, ask him his opinion by all means, and your idea of a high grade l/paper will pay off in the long run, and you shouldnt see any joints at all if its done properly, but it will obviously cost exta in labour, maybe you better ask him how much more.