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Good afternoon... I'm about to start a light (heh... heh...
) kitchen remodel, and in thinking about the walls, I'm having an issue. I am almost finished a bathroom remodel in the same condo, and had to remove wallpaper in there, which is the same wallpaper still existing in the kitchen.
It was a horrible, horrible process to remove that stuff from the bathroom, and spent many hours sanding down the glue, only to find I was taking off the out layers of the drywall paper... after doing some research, I'm self-diagnosing the problem to be that the original builder put the glue right on the fresh drywall, with no primer... causing the two to bond.
The bathroom was a smaller surface area, and I've moved on from my initial
. As I begin to ponder the kitchen... a larger surface area covered with wallpaper... I'm left with several options.. and I'm wondering what ya'll would think is the best one:
A) Quite yer whining, Levi, and get in there and just do it (remove paper like bathroom), just be sure to use a really good primer/sealer when done before painting. My thoughts on this: time consuming, and I hate removing wallpaper.
B) Easy as pie: prime OVER existing wallpaper and paint.... (one issue here: in various fits of rage after thinking how on earth anyone could put up such ugly paper, I've ripped various non-uniform pieces off the wall at times, just leaving the glue/drywall bond stuff out in the open.. guess I could just rip the entire paper surface off - fairly easy actually - and prime that?)
C) Rip it to the studs and truley make it your own, Levi! While this is probably the way to get it down perfect how I want it, let's list off the cons: time consuming, I'm not the "best" at mudding, and I generally would prefer not to.
Thoughts? Experiences with A or B (or C)? Any discussion/feedback for me? :drink:
It was a horrible, horrible process to remove that stuff from the bathroom, and spent many hours sanding down the glue, only to find I was taking off the out layers of the drywall paper... after doing some research, I'm self-diagnosing the problem to be that the original builder put the glue right on the fresh drywall, with no primer... causing the two to bond.
The bathroom was a smaller surface area, and I've moved on from my initial
A) Quite yer whining, Levi, and get in there and just do it (remove paper like bathroom), just be sure to use a really good primer/sealer when done before painting. My thoughts on this: time consuming, and I hate removing wallpaper.
B) Easy as pie: prime OVER existing wallpaper and paint.... (one issue here: in various fits of rage after thinking how on earth anyone could put up such ugly paper, I've ripped various non-uniform pieces off the wall at times, just leaving the glue/drywall bond stuff out in the open.. guess I could just rip the entire paper surface off - fairly easy actually - and prime that?)
C) Rip it to the studs and truley make it your own, Levi! While this is probably the way to get it down perfect how I want it, let's list off the cons: time consuming, I'm not the "best" at mudding, and I generally would prefer not to.
Thoughts? Experiences with A or B (or C)? Any discussion/feedback for me? :drink: