About 6 months ago I lined the walls of our spare bedroom with lining paper and painted with matt emulsion. After a few weeks I noticed the joins between the paper on one of the interior walls (partition type) were opening up. I duly filled them and repainted. However, they keep reappearing. Every
4 weeks or so I have to fill and paint. The gaps are only about 1/2 mm, but are very noticeable. Any ideas what is going on and how to stop the gaps opening up?Thanks
Andrew
The natural expansion in the wall might be the cause. When the house cools at night with the heating off, everything shrinks and when the house heats up again it all expands.
Is this gaps increasing or just the edges of the paper lifting? Probably difficult to tell at sub 1mm but I'd suggest lifting the paper gently with a scraper, and using a pva glue. Use a fine abrasive to get rid of the previous filler and try again, preferably with a fine surface filler.
I have a similar problem in the living room, where wallpaper will "part" even though it was first put up correctly. There is some sort of nasty green paint (war era) which I suspect is to blame, and i`ve heard other people mention having the same sort of problem with it.
"stuart noble" scraper, and using a pva glue. Use a fine abrasive to get rid of the
No problem with the adhesive, edges aren't lifting, just the gaps.
Think i'll wait till they get big & fill!
Cheers
"Andrew Barnes" wrote
Don't use lining paper ?
My walls were pretty rough with some dodgy 50's paint on them, but after a session of painting & filling X 2 and a final touch up, no lining paper needed.
Cheers,
Paul.
blame, and i`ve heard other people mention having the same sort of problem with it.<
oh i know that horrible stuff very well, i scraped it also, although i used a shovel and went down to bare bricks to ensure thorough removal ;)
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