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REPORT ABUSIVE REPLY
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Need you Advice about PAINT
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Larry D. Croc |
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How much paint do you have? Enamel is generally "thicker" paint and doesn't cover as many square feet.
If it were me? I'd be using a heat gun to remove the old wallpaper as a first step.
Next, I'd be putting the paint I bought on either the local Nextdoor site or Craigslist to get rid of it rather than trying to "make it work".
Third, as already suggested I'd use drywall "mud" to create the plastered look I wanted and let it cure a good three/four weeks before painting with a good alkyd (water based, not oil based) primer paint.
Lastly, use the final coat cover I wanted in the first place.
Quoting: Larry D. Croc Thank you so much for your advice ... but it is beginning to sound like a lot more work than I anticipated - especially if I have to take off the vinyl wall covering first ... which may not even be vinyl considering how old it is ... but it is not coming down anywhere ... it's still in great shape but it is an ivy print that I really really hate ... and thought I could make look like plaster if I added something to the paint ... but you are talking about painting over my "mud" concoction .... I was hoping to put it all on at one time with a trowel .... is that possible in your opinion? I, speaking only for myself, would not be adding the weight to wallpaper. It's presuming the wallpaper won't start slumping. It also assumes the surface of the wallpaper will allow for a good "grip" with your concoction troweled over it; not a safe assumption in my opinion. To remove wallpaper on the cheap take a piece of pine, say a foot length of a 1 x 4 pine board you have laying around. Pound brad nails through it until they just barely come through the bottom of the board. Do that with about 30 of the nails (a plastic pack of 100 might cost you a dollar) and you'll now have a "tool" you can use to rough up the surface/break through the very top of the wallpaper without gouging your wall surface. Apply wallpaper remover solution, which is cheap and can be picked up at lowe's and let it work for half an hour and then with your flat, flexible scraper/putty knife scrape the wallpaper off. If you're bound and determined to work over the wallpaper you're going to have to give it a good scrub as a first step. It's got x years of cooking grease residue, environmental airborne crud, etc. on it right now, it's not a reliably clean surface.
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