Repainting over latex

trupro

Hello all, glad to be here! Im a complete home improvement noob who has enjoyed lurking and finally have a question of my own...

Moved to a new space and fixing up the old one, and the walls are a new scenario for me as there is peeling paint involved: Removed my auralex sound treatment foam that was stuck on the walls with FoamTak, and now using Goo-Gone to remove the excess glue. (It also removes latex paint, but that's fine as I promised I would patch, sand and prime the room anyway).

So there will be quite alot of peeling, melty latex paint; let me know if I've researched this properly:

-use goo gone

-scrape away glue and debris

-wash walls with sponge/warm water & let dry

-spackle any holes in walls

-remove peeling or excess paint as well as excess spackle and debris with a powered palm sander. This also roughs up the old paint so the primer will stick.(*Q:can this be sanded manually in a large room or is that an insane amount of wasted effort...
do most people do this with a powered sander?)

-wash sanding debris from wall and let dry

-tape, edge prime with brush, then roller prime the walls

Let me know if this sounds right, your expertise is much appreciated Thanks, and happy new year to you!

Windows

That procedure sounds about right - you may want to scrape the peeling areas, pole sand the entire walls, fill and then spot sand the fills. I only bring the orbital sander out for exceptionally bad walls.

Matthewt1970

I agree. A pole sander will do wonders.

trupro

nice, thanks! I'll get a pole sander for this week and if it works the rest of the room should be smooth sailing