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I am fixing up my 1961 condo and want to remove this mobile room divider/partition that tracks on the ceiling. At this time, I prefer for the space to be one large room with a continuous smooth, flat ceiling. In the future, if I ever want to divide the space, I would build a wall (or have a wall...

Hey Folks, Just pulled a small bathroom's worth of old tile down off the walls (about 100 sq.ft) and I'm planning to paint over the former tile area, so I need to get this pretty smooth. There is a good deal of old thinset stuck over the lather and plaster walls and using a hand scraper is...

I've read in a few places that you should only use an oil based primer over a skimcoat, as the compound skimcoat will draw the water from the latex primer and go into solution causing bubbles under the primer. While I don't want to mess up my beautiful (at least hopefully once it's done)...

The ceiling of my bedroom had termite damage and chipping paint, so after chipping off what I could I decided to skimcoat it. I put up adhesive mesh - with some trouble doing it alone, but eventually got the entire ceiling covered, although there are some bubbles in it. I started skimcoating...

My bathroom walls were a mix of plaster and drywall with various layers of paint, primer, and skim coating. I attempted to skim coat the walls myself to prepare for priming and painting, but I wasn't happy with the results so I hired someone to do it right. The walls are smooth now but not quite...