I've got somebody in decorating a bedroom; something I would normally DIY but time is a bit short. The job consists of removing old wallpaper, putting up lining paper and finishing with emulsion. There were some bad cracks in the plaster behind the old paper which he said he would fill, and so he has but --
The lining paper is all done now (just finished today) and there are some quite large areas of filler on top of it. Now I've done a lot of decorating over the years but I've never used lining paper before. Is it normal practice to use filler on top?
I've searched back through old posts and found lots of comments about filling joints between strips but this filling isn't anywhere near the joints. I get the impression that it's been done to smooth out imperfections that really should have been fixed before the paper went on.
The real question is, does this work? If the finished job looks right then maybe it doesn't matter but I don't want to find filler crumbling off the walls a year later.
The lining paper is all done now (just finished today) and there are some quite large areas of filler on top of it. Now I've done a lot of decorating over the years but I've never used lining paper before. Is it normal practice to use filler on top?
I've searched back through old posts and found lots of comments about filling joints between strips but this filling isn't anywhere near the joints. I get the impression that it's been done to smooth out imperfections that really should have been fixed before the paper went on.
The real question is, does this work? If the finished job looks right then maybe it doesn't matter but I don't want to find filler crumbling off the walls a year later.