Painting on Wallpaper (Horror) Urgent Help Needed>>

EN4

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Dear All,

I need urgent help :oops:

Today, I started painting over the wallpaper in our bedroom. I used a water based ceiling paint as an undercoat on one wall so far and it has started to bubble. :cry: Then I was going to put more expensive Laura Ashley paint on top.

Our walls are bad hence the need for painting them. I have stopped now, and left the other 3 walls.

What can i use as a base coat on the other 3 walls to stop the bubbling?

Can someone recommend me an exact product?

Thanks for any help you can give.

A very worried painter :rolleyes:
 
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If its a paintable paper like a blown vinyl or anaglypta its bubbling up due to shoddy installation, it may settle to some extent once its dried out again but will probably look naff.

If its your normal patterned vinyl your not supposed to paint it and there isn't a product available that will stop bubbling, a gripping primer such as coverstain or bin would stick and take an emulsion but doesn't stop the bubbling problem.
 
If its a paintable paper like a blown vinyl or anaglypta its bubbling up due to shoddy installation, it may settle to some extent once its dried out again but will probably look naff.

If its your normal patterned vinyl your not supposed to paint it and there isn't a product available that will stop bubbling, a gripping primer such as coverstain or bin would stick and take an emulsion but doesn't stop the bubbling problem.

Hi, its just normal paper patterned paper, not marketed as paintable.. Yes you are right it has settled down a fair bit now so i might just do the other walls.

If i give a second coat to the troubled wall, so it now not bubble again, as it been coated once?

Cheers again

EN4
 

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