Want to paint previously wallpapered walls

er_indoors

I could use a little help and advice.
I want to decorate a room that now has wallpaper, years ago I stripped the paper off a room washed it down with sugar soap and sanded it lightly
then put on a good quality emulsion paint. The wallpaper paste still showed throught, so another 2 coats of paint and still the paste marks could be seen. so ended using lining paper and painted over that.

Surely there is a way around this, I just hope it can be done. Much easier to paint than paper.

Although I know there are some wonderful papers out there and my lounge has a feature wall which is fab, it's just a time factor and health problems
means the easier the better.

Thank you

ormus

the only thing you can do is sand it off even better, or get the wall skimmed.

er_indoors

Thank you looks like a lot of hard work ahead.

nickj_2

the only way to remove paste is wet the wall and then use a scourer to free the paste and then keep sponging it off - or if you have a squeegey type tool you can use that as well

gmgmgm

Perhaps use lining paper again?

er_indoors

Yes looks like it but so much nicer without the paper, no joins.

dander

Personally, I'd just paint over the existing paper!

er_indoors

I wish it were that easy, had some rewiring so paper off in parts, it was done quite some time ago and areas around the radiators not good there is some cracking in the paper. It looks a dogs dinner!

LandyAndy

When we moved here we stripped all the (ancient) wallpaper upstairs and just sponged the walls down then applied emulsion and there wasn't an issue. I've never had this problem with paste showing through.

Just strip the paper, wash down and paint to see what happens.

misgrace

nickj wrote: »

the only way to remove paste is wet the wall and then use a scourer to free the paste and then keep sponging it off - or if you have a squeegey type tool you can use that as well

I agree, its the only way to do it.
But when you actually strip the wallpaper, get your scraper blade and try and get as much of the paste of there and then, you can see the paste, its slimy, keep scraping down the wall, this will save you a bit of time when you actually come to washing the walls.

poppyolivia

I did this in my old house for the HALL (upper and lower)...omg I lost the will to live...took paper off, spend everyday for 3 wks 'cleaning' it...painted it and it look rubbish..paste still showed up....ended up papering it!...A 100% improvement! I would never ever paint a previously papered wall unless it was skimmed!