Lining paper on walls to be painted???

lightspeed

Hi,

I am after a very flat finish to our walls that shows minimal signs of blemishes in the plaster. I noticed at a friend of a friends house at the weekend that their walls gave this appearance but they had what looked like lining paper on top of the plaster.

anyway...

...we are in the process of decorating the lounge and coincidently, our plasterer recomended that once we had rubbed down the walls and filled small cracks with polyfilla that we should use the thick grade lining paper on all of the walls, carefully sealing the joints with a roller and then paint over that with a matt emulsion paint to give the flatest, belmish free appearance.

Has anyone had any experience with this?

Thanks in advance.

angeleyes

lightspeed wrote:

Hi,

I am after a very flat finish to our walls that shows minimal signs of blemishes in the plaster. I noticed at a friend of a friends house at the weekend that their walls gave this appearance but they had what looked like lining paper on top of the plaster.

anyway...

...we are in the process of decorating the lounge and coincidently, our plasterer recomended that once we had rubbed down the walls and filled small cracks with polyfilla that we should use the thick grade lining paper on all of the walls, carefully sealing the joints with a roller and then paint over that with a matt emulsion paint to give the flatest, belmish free appearance.

Has anyone had any experience with this?

Thanks in advance.

we have done this in our bedroom with the thickest one and it feels warmer and looks better

susi

My daughter has just had a decorator to do her bedroom with lining paper and it looks great, just like plastered walls

busymumof3

We did put lining paper up in our last house as the walls were not perfect even after lots of filling and sanding. It was 1950's.

Our current 20 year old one is fine for painting directly onto the plaster as the walls have never been wallpapered and so the plaster has never been scraped over. We do have the annoying problem of the plaster over the screws holding down the plasterboad popping which gives a line of raised little circles.

angeluk69_2

I live in an old terraced house that has had lining paper put up and it has showed up everylump and bump, but then again we rent and the LandLord just quickly decorated to get someone in.

IMHO, if the job is done right then it should look good, which is why I am moving into a new build next week, don't have to worry about things like that!!!

Canucklehead

Good morning: We did exactly as your plasterer suggested (used 1200 grade paper if I remember correctly)) and the end result looked great in our Victorian stone house.

Good luck.

culpepper

we've done this.
I think the lining paper is so that should you want to paper later,you can always get the old one off.Much more difficult if you have painted straight onto the plaster as the wallpaper paste will stick to the paint,not the plaster and peel off. I suppose it leaves the original sound foundation in good order.
We have a 1920's house which has been painted layer over layer and would have been hell to remove from the plaster.Luckily it was papered first.
Lining paper is cheap,easy to put up and a light uniform colour for painting over.

td

We did this and it looked great - as long as you get rid of lumps and bumps first.

td

ahll

I used linning paper (thickest one I could find) on most of my walls and it looks great, my house is about 100 years old. I would recommend it

davethedecorator

very much depends on the condition of the walls as to your success with lining paper. if the walls are in a very poor condition and have many years of "DIY" polyfiller work done then lining paper regardless of grade will just exaggerate the problem, but 9 times out of 10 it will be an improvement. Take care of your seems and corners and ensure they are stuck down and butted up well (but not overlapped). Good luck.

vivaladiva

Does it matter which way you hang the lining paper? I heard that hanging it horizontally was best, but on a long wall sounds like a nightmare. :eek: