Painting plaster

[jim_mids]

Evening Folks ,

Dont know if anyone can help with this question. I have just stripped the wallpaper in our bedroom to find that the plaster seems to have been painted in a cream satin finish - which is flaking off!

Does this have to be removed , or is there another way?

Thanks in advance - picture of the wall attached.

(The intention is to paint the walls)

 

[TheDec]

To get these walls ready to accept paint is going to mean a lot of hard graft, it may be a better option to consider lining the walls and then painting them..

Dec

 

[GordonOh]

The best way would be to scrape off all loose flaking dried emulsion, buy a tub of ready mix joint filler and a caulking blade and skim the wall and give it a very light sand down with very fine sandpaper so the wall is smooth.[/u]

 

[GordonOh]

To get these walls ready to accept paint is going to mean a lot of hard graft, it may be a better option to consider lining the walls and then painting them..

Dec

To do this you would need to have a very heavy lining paper and depending on the condition of the surface of the walls, you may still get indentations through the lining paper, which would cause you more work, also once the lining paper was emulsioned, it would just look like emulsioned plain wallpaper because of the seams.

 

[Richard C]

The best way would be to scrape off all loose flaking dried emulsion, buy a tub of ready mix joint filler and a caulking blade and skim the wall and give it a very light sand down with very fine sandpaper so the wall is smooth.[/u]

Or do it properly & get it re-skimmed; depending on size of room probably a days work after prep. Using filler for local repairs is one thing but to fill & sand a whole room is going to be so much work & crate so much dust you’ll regret you ever started. You would probably do just as well to take a power sander to the existing wall & forget the filler. If you decide to use filler, use Easyfill it's what it was made for.

Whatever you do make sure you prime/mist the plaster before painting; it almost certainly wasn’t done properly originally & is why the paint has not adhered propeerly & coming away with the wallpaper.

 

[dcdec]

Emulsioned plain wallpaper?? Give over..

1200 paper applied by a good dec and you wont even know its lined.