Removing wallpaper....paint layers underneath peeling off as well!

[sagalout1954]

Stripping wallpaper & old paint layers underneath are peeling off as well, down to the plasterboard in places.

This room has always been a problem with scattered pinhead size bubbles in painted wall areas (painted top half, dado, wallpaper bottom half).

On starting to strip back the whole room, seems nothing has really been 'stuck' properly from the bare plasterboard onwards, paint layer by paint layer, which explains the problem we've always had with pinhead bubbles perhaps.

Once the dado was removed it's also possible to peel off paint in the upper half of the room like peeling skin.

House is 20 years old, problem is only in the one bedroom, presume something was not done in there when the house was build, plasterboarded & painted magnolia by the builders?

Will the best answer be to try to strip back as much as possible of every layer that's loose enough to remove and then have it skimmed, so that it will be in good enough shape to re-paint?

 

[Pigeon85]

If its coming off easy and the plasterboard is in decent enough condition then yes have it skimmed.
If not then you could remove and reboard or even just leave everything as it is and board over the top.

 

[sagalout1954]

If its coming off easy and the plasterboard is in decent enough condition then yes have it skimmed.
If not then you could remove and reboard or even just leave everything as it is and board over the top.

Skimming will be the end answer I think. We can't get all layers of paint off in some large areas but others are going right back to plasterboard so an erratic effect is left. To prevent whatever the problem was would it be advisable to paint Zinsser Gardz on the whole lot before the skimming?

 

[Pigeon85]

Skimming will be the end answer I think. We can't get all layers of paint off in some large areas but others are going right back to plasterboard so an erratic effect is left. To prevent whatever the problem was would it be advisable to paint Zinsser Gardz on the whole lot before the skimming?

I would get some plasterers in first before doing anything else, they will be able to give the best advise apon viewing it overwise you could just end up spending more and wasted time.