Hi,
I have a basic cheap emulsion in my living room that is bright red, which rubs off easily on a wet wipe. I want to wallpaper over it, but I'm worried about the paint soaking through the paper.
Will I be ok just applying a primer over the top of the red emulsion, or should I remove the red emulsion somehow? If the latter, what is the easiest and quickest way of removing the emulsion?
The wall material is simple plaster board by the way.
Thanks.
Hi, its easy just put white matt paint on it and paper the wall. nothing will be happen.
Hi you'd be OK to paint over it I'd recommend valsper paint available from b&q
HEMS
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It's unlikely the paper will stick to the red paint if it wipes off, I'd remove it
Hi
If it is silk paint just score the wall with a Stanley knife & then use a ready mix paper adhesive from Brewers
Regards simon
i would try to wash the emulsion off with hot water and a sponge,then size it and cross line it prior to wallpapering.
If your hanging a finish paper you need to cross line first or every joint will show. If its to be papered with blown vynil then painted,you should be safe to paper straight over it.
As we cannot be certain of what paint is already on the walls, I would recommend washing it off with a sugar soap solution, any that does not come off in this way can stay and can safely be wallpapered over. Alternatively you could prime with a stain stop paint but I would be concerned as to whether the old emulsion is firmly adhered to the wall so I would go for the sugar soap. The caveat here is that I would prefer to see the job personally to rule out other causes such as poor pre-paint wall preparation or environmental factors. My visits to provide an estimate are free.
Hi there,if you apply two coats of white emulsion first as a base coat I would suggest a water based eggshell paint when it drys it will dry tough and will not come off or leak through the new wallpaper.
Many thanks
Barry J.Hall Decorators
my suggestion will be apply one cotes of magnolia or white emulsion paint and that will be ok for wall papering
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To be honest with you, i would always recommend preparing the walls ready for papering no matter what colour the wall is. With the colour being red, there is a chance that the colour might show through (grin / smile) but this ultimatly would depend on how thick and what type of paper you are applying.
My advice would be to sand the walls, stabalise it with PVA (makes applying the paper much easier) and then cross-line it before hanging your chosen decorative wallpaper.
Hope that helps!
Scott
Yes paint over it with white emulsion first before you paper your walls.
Use lining paper first then paper it should be fine
I suggested before applying the wallpaper to paint the walls white paint middle class. if you do not see anything disturbing the walls cracks or air bubble can put wallpaper. Regards
You can use PVA with wa terrible around 1L PVA to 3 water mix and apply on walls when dry can start .
Regards Florin
It sounds like you need to take it off first then apply wallpaper
You can't scrape it away due to it being board so you must take the shine off by using a 60-80grit paper on the paint and apply a good sizing coat maybe 2
You can either prime the wall with a suitable primer or line the wall with lining paper vertically.
So what I would do/suggest is to size the area in question prior to wallpapering.
Size the wall/walls using the wallpaper adhesive.