Lining Paper..

littlerose12345

Hi All

We are looking to wallpaper one wall of our bedroom and paint the others. The plaster is in fairly good condition but I think we may need to do some filling.

I've read about lining paper and have seen it comes in different types / thicknesses.. Could someone explain how it should be used? Would we be able to paint over it?

Igol

Its just used like normal wall paper, but the heavyer gauge stuff obviously hides more.
Half of my house was just lining paper painted over when I first moved in, also had the advantage when it came to put wall paper up the walls were already lined

littlerose12345

Thanks for your reply!

When you paint over the lining paper, are the joints really visible?

Igol

Depends if you overlap or butt them up well, down to personal skill I guess...I'm looking at a join now as it happens lol
From a distance on the good ones no real difference between that and wallpaper.

nibs

We have it in our house and no the joints aren't visible, in fact everyone thinks its plastered! It really does look good. However, I think it was done by a professional decorator, before we moved in.

baby-mechanic

A decorator mate said we shouldn't have put our lining paper up vertically, as putting it horizontally makes for a better finish !

Not sure of the hows and whys, but he assured me it wasn't a wind up !

wallbash

I have heard of cross hatching , using 2 layers and one goes vertically, and the other
horizontall but have only done it on really bad walls..... which should have been skimmed.

ormus

when ive used lining paper, ive always used it horizontaly.

angelavdavis

I prefer lined, painted walls - don't like painted plaster, it's too cold! I don't cross-line, just hang vertically, if it was under wallpaper, then you hang horizontally. It provides a flawless finish under wallpaper.

I lined a shower room in our house last week and painted over, nice and quick because no pattern matching required! I used 800 gauge as the walls weren't too bad but it made a huge difference - one of my friends who had seen the before-walls was amazed I hadn't had it replastered.

You need to mix paste thicker than for normal paper.

littlerose12345

Thanks everyone!

Just spoken to a colleague who recommended a lining paper called Wall Doctor? Anyone ever used this?

angelavdavis

No, I just use whatever DIY shed standard. 800 gauge at Focus last week was about £4 per roll. You do get more drops out of a roll than normal wallpaper.