[Pete's Painting]

Stripping some wallpaper this week and you all know this issue. In one bedroom the drywall wasn't primed, started making a mess then convinced the HO to let me patch and paint over it. What is the best oil-based odorless primer for this?

Should sand the wallpaper lightly first, prime with oil-based, sand again, patch, sand again, spot prime, then paint.......correct?

Will need to buy more sand paper........

 

[painttofish]

http://www.painttalk.com/showthread.php?t=60&highlight=painting+over+wallpaper

I'll put my timhag hat on "try this site"

 

[daArch]

Pete.

That's a good link painttofish posted.

I have one qustion, what type of paper is it? Paper paper, paper or cloth backed vinyl, vinyl or acrylic coated paper, or even non-woven ? My choice of proceedures would depend on the paper.

 

[ProWallGuy]

Just......don't do it. :no:

 

[Pete's Painting]

I know, I know PWG,
But the paper wouldn't budge from the drywall. I started pulling on it and chunks of drywall started coming off. I stripped 3 other rooms and it went fine.
I'm not offering a warranty, and the homeowner is pretty cool. She agreed to paint over once she saw the mess and all I managed to do was rip craters in the wall.
It's paper/paper, sanded it pretty good before priming with oil Zinsser. Sanded the oil and put joint compound to smooth........can't tell it's wallpaper no more.

 

[Pete's Painting]

Is it me or do oil based primers seem to work better when tinted? Probably just a visual thing, but seems to go on thicker, and sand better which I like when using it to fix a problem like this.

 

[slickshift]

It's just you

 

[lillywilliam]

Nice!

Hi painttofish!

Very Nice Url you have!

 

[painttofish]

Thanks, welcome to the site.