Painting & Decorating

gypsum mixed with paint, good idea for cracked and uneven walls?

Anonymous user 23/02/2024 - 3.01 PM

We have just stripped the wallpaper from our bedroom walls. One wall had textured wallpaper on years ago and we can see the outlines of the pattern. The walls very uneven and patchy, and still got loads of paste on it. After washing the walls with sugarsoap and sanding them down I still think the wall is going to look pretty poor. An old builder friend suggested mixing gypsum with white paint to make a thick paste like paint. He said to roll it onto the walls in sections and sand down once dry. Has anyone done this before? I've also herd that no matter how much we clean the wallpaper paste off the plaster will have absorbed some which will affect the finished paint eventually. How can we prep and paint our walls without resorting to skimming? Thanks

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Cheadle

you have a couple of options,line the walls with a product called "wall rock" it is the best lining paper as it it flexes with the wall and will never crack as it contains fibre glass also it is good to paint on and if you do at a later date want the wall papering will provide an excellent surface Or you could use a product called "easy fill" its a ready mixed filler which you apply with a spatula and then sand smooth providing a great surface

Answered21 February 2017

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Blackwood

hi you could line the walls with heavy lining paper this will give you a nice finish to paint or wallpaper

Answered29 February 2016

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