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Painting over wallpaper
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Edwardgdee wrote: »Painting over paper is quick and easy but should you later decide you need to strip the paper then you have set yourself up with a problem.
It's not a huge problem. You merely score the paper as you would pork skin and use hot hot water to soak then scrape off.“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
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pendragon_arther wrote: »It's not a huge problem. You merely score the paper as you would pork skin and use hot hot water to soak then scrape off.
Depends on the type of paper, woodchip with multiple layers of paint on it is not amenable to this. I have a house covered in it and tried exactly this technique, without success. I ended up dry scraping the top layer off then steaming off the remainder.Proud member of the wokerati, though I don't eat tofu.Home is where my books are.Solar PV 5.2kWp system, SE facing, >1% shading, installed March 2019.Mortgage free July 20230 -
And don't worry if the paper bubbles when the paint is wet, it will unbubble as it dries....hopefully!0
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