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wood paneling help!
Posted by Janet L. Dodd on June 19th, 2003 08:42 PM
In reply to paneling by Henry in MI on June 18th, 2003 05:21 AM [Go to top of thread]
Hi EH,
I have the exact same problem and will be undertaking it this way, though not for another 6 months or so.... I have researched my options.
First off, Henry is right. There usually is drywall behind the paneling, so after you confirm that, pick a day when you're in a #%@&! mood and get ripping. To repair the wall, you will need to use drywall compound. Repair gouges and tears of the drywall paper. If you want to wallpaper, you would just work at making it smooth. Sand and wipe down, then apply wallpaper prep, and then paper...wal-ah you are done. If you want it textured, you can rent a special splatter gun (electric or pneumatic- they have both, or you can buy one, but their like $69.00 and when are you gonna want to do this again...course you could always sell it on E-bay, right? ha ha -oh yeah, the gun just uses jugs of already prepared joint compound)Anyway, after wall is patched, you texture, then you prime (a couple coats) and paint(a couple coats). A lot of work no matter what, but more in time than money, and the end result will wow you!
The options if there is NOT drywall behind that paneling are varied: you say the paneling job is not that great, so why hide a poor job by covering it? My gut says...get it off-a-there. BUT, I have been where you are now, not a lotta $, job, kids, ugh. So if you don't want to tear it off and install drywall yourself (which isn't hard to do, just read a lot of how-to's before you get started and plan on the job taking at least 3 times as long as you figured.) now where was I? Oh, yeah, if you want to just cover up that dang paneling and make it look better, they make a plain white textured wallpaper that is paintable, so once it is up you can paint it however you would like. If you're paneling is the style that has grooves, you would have to compound over the grooves and all nail holes, then prep and apply the wallpaper, THEN...paint it the brighter color you are really looking for. If you don't want the wall textured anyway, you could do the same basic steps and then just prime and paint, but you are risking knotholes and weird stuff showing through the paint. Good luck!
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