A few months ago I stripped the wallpaper in the lounge ready for redecoration. Underneath is paramount type partitioning - the house is timber framed. I have been concious since of a smell which I couldn't quite place, but seemed to be coming from the walls. A few months later and I have had the walls repapered. Immediately after he had finished the smell seemed a bit stronger and I twigged that it was probably wall paper paste. Whilst the smell is not now quite so strong it's still there 3 weeks later. If I ventilate the room well it virtually disappears, coming back when the room has been shut up for a while.
Initially the alarm bells starting ringing that it might be damp or rot, particularly as the house is timber framed, but before the walls were repapered I could find no evidence of this either inside or out. It doesn't really smell like how I would imagine damp to smell in any case.
As far as I can remember the decorator didn't seal the walls before papering, and the new wallpaper is super fresco, which from my previous posting about tacky emulsion in the hall, I understand is porous. The paper has now been decorated with matt emulsion, and has dried OK .
I don't know whether it's my imagination but the aroma seems to be slightly stronger towards the front external window wall of the house, although I am in an end terrace and the fireplace wall is an external wall as well. The walls do smell a bit pastey, but not as strong as the aroma can be in the room.
I guess after all that, the question is whether it will go in time, if indeed wall paper paste is what the smell is. I need to put new carpet in the lounge and don't really want to do that until I am more sure about the problem. Any thoughts welcome.
Initially the alarm bells starting ringing that it might be damp or rot, particularly as the house is timber framed, but before the walls were repapered I could find no evidence of this either inside or out. It doesn't really smell like how I would imagine damp to smell in any case.
As far as I can remember the decorator didn't seal the walls before papering, and the new wallpaper is super fresco, which from my previous posting about tacky emulsion in the hall, I understand is porous. The paper has now been decorated with matt emulsion, and has dried OK .
I don't know whether it's my imagination but the aroma seems to be slightly stronger towards the front external window wall of the house, although I am in an end terrace and the fireplace wall is an external wall as well. The walls do smell a bit pastey, but not as strong as the aroma can be in the room.
I guess after all that, the question is whether it will go in time, if indeed wall paper paste is what the smell is. I need to put new carpet in the lounge and don't really want to do that until I am more sure about the problem. Any thoughts welcome.
