Wallpaper Over Cracked Paint?
I have a rounded wall that has a few cracks but the tenant painted over the new paint so now it is cracking. Can I wallpaper over this with heavy paintable wallpaper? I don’t have the money right now for extensive (and expensive) plastering.
I have a rounded wall that has a few cracks but the tenant painted over the new paint so now it is cracking. Can I wallpaper over this with heavy paintable wallpaper? I don’t have the money right now for extensive (and expensive) plastering.
We are looking at applying some anaglypta or lincrusta wallpaper after we stabilize the cracking in some plaster on a project. Some of the walls are contoured also.
However, we are going to scrape off loose paint, mesh and plaster on the substrate. Since we would want the walls to be smooth to accept the wallpaper, it will be necessary to leave a near finish grade surface.
As this is a rental, I doubt you want to go this route.
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I painted latex over a wall once not knowing any better that had oil paint on it. I didn’t prime, and the alligatoring was horrendous. I’d scrape and plaster, but a month or two later, more cracking. If your situation is anything like what I faced, you’d be better off with the canvas approach. The only time I saw it done, the painter used a very thin muslin, almost like a guaze, since it’s much thinner and the seams are easier to hide (at least that’s what he said). Good luck with it.
I am a professional painter, and plasterer. I think you are better off just scraping, filling any cracks and painting. Or for the best results skim coating then painting. Trying to cover a bumpy cracked wall with paper or other material is not a viable solution.
Feel free to contact me, even if your not looking to hire someone I would be happy to give you advice.
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Ok, this is something that had been done on a job I was on a long time ago, but a process that I have not done – but I shall share what I know and think will work. If the paint is stable and not peeling away, I suspect it may be better to put “painter’s canvas” on the wall first. This is what the painter on a job I’d worked on did to a wall that was “alligatored” – that is cracked without the cracks actually pulling away, ie – it was stable. The painter’s canvas hides the cracks which I think would otherwise show through the wall paper. Also, if something actually pulls free, not a large area, but a small area, I think the canvas will hold it back. You can then paper over the canvas. So far as I know, the painter’s canvas is applied just like wallpaper.
I would like to see what others say about this approach. The man who I had seen do this was old at the time and that was over 20 yrs ago, so I do not know if people do this today – but i am finding more and more that this stuff these old guys used to do was really the way it should be done.
Ok, I just reread your post, and it seems you want to apply something paintable and yes, that would seem to be the painter’s canvas.
Steve
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