Hi! New to this forum, as I have recently bought a house and have a lot of DIY projects already started and need some advice!
First project was tearing down some awful wood paneling that sat over 4 layers of wallpaper. My inexperienced self sprayed the wallpaper with a water sprayer to remove the wall paper before I realized that the walls underneath were unprimed and unfinished. There are bad water stains on one wall, but the rest are OK in relation to water stains. The other problem is that the coloring of the sheetrock is a medium brown color and is coming through the compound that my 'skim coater' is putting up. Screws and seams were not finished prior to placing up the wall paper back in the 1960's, so they are now being coated. These are the only areas that are remaining light/white from the joint compound, and the rest of the wall is turning a yellow/brown. Will I be able to cover this successfully with a primer before painting?
A painter friend of mine said that I will need to use oil based primer to achieve the best results, but I have 3 kids and about 8 walls to paint with primer, and we are living in the house through the remodel. Is there any latex primer that will cover and last? We have 5 gallons of Kilz premium from priming walls in our old house that held up fine, but I am unaware of how well this will work over stains and color changes.
Thanks so much for the time! I am sure I will become a regular poster (PIA) with all of our projects to come!
First project was tearing down some awful wood paneling that sat over 4 layers of wallpaper. My inexperienced self sprayed the wallpaper with a water sprayer to remove the wall paper before I realized that the walls underneath were unprimed and unfinished. There are bad water stains on one wall, but the rest are OK in relation to water stains. The other problem is that the coloring of the sheetrock is a medium brown color and is coming through the compound that my 'skim coater' is putting up. Screws and seams were not finished prior to placing up the wall paper back in the 1960's, so they are now being coated. These are the only areas that are remaining light/white from the joint compound, and the rest of the wall is turning a yellow/brown. Will I be able to cover this successfully with a primer before painting?
A painter friend of mine said that I will need to use oil based primer to achieve the best results, but I have 3 kids and about 8 walls to paint with primer, and we are living in the house through the remodel. Is there any latex primer that will cover and last? We have 5 gallons of Kilz premium from priming walls in our old house that held up fine, but I am unaware of how well this will work over stains and color changes.
Thanks so much for the time! I am sure I will become a regular poster (PIA) with all of our projects to come!