![]() Once that was dry, I sanded smooth, vacuumed, wiped off residual dust with a damp sponge, let dry, and then primed with Roman Ultra Prime Pro 977 and let dry. It’s pretty cool stuff.Īfter that dried, I applied a very thin skim coat of joint compound (which we call mud ). So to prepare it for wallpaper, I first sealed loose or dusty areas with GARDZ, which is a penetrating and hard-drying sealer for torn drywall or other unstable surfaces. But was still left with a wall with lots of irregular and un-smooth areas. I switched to wet-stripping the remaining wallpaper, and had less damage. The primer also has to dry completely, before wallpaper goes up. Nothing sticks to dust! So it’s imperative that, after vacuuming, you take a damp sponge – rinsed frequently – and wipe down the entire wall, and then let dry, before priming. That’s a likely reason why the primer / paint pulled away from the wall so easily. Second, I have a suspicion that, after skim-floating and then sanding the wall to smooth it, dust was left on the wall, and then trapped between the wall and the primer. So maybe this is just paint, or a paint primer. But, to be honest, a wallpaper primer is designed to let go of the wallpaper when you start to strip it off the wall. It’s a good thing, at least, that the previous installer used a primer, and hopefully one made for use under wallpaper. But it took some of the primer along with it. ![]() ![]() The paper came off in an intact sheet, as the mfgr promises. Dry-stripping the wallpaper resulted in this. It bugged the homeowner, and she wanted it to look better. Depending on where you’re standing in the room, and where light is coming from, the bubbles were somewhat noticeable, even with this busy patterned wallpaper. The homeowner’s contractor’s guy hung this accent wall in an under the stairs powder room. ![]()
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