You can get a perfectly acceptable finish - it's not as smooth as a skim finish, and doesn't feel as nice to the touch (feels like painted paper!), but visually it's fine.
My preference is for skimmed, but I've done both in different situations.
If you're wallpapering, then I'd say skimming is a waste of time and money - you will never know the difference.
Until you come to strip off the wallpaper only to find that you need to replace the plasterboards because holes have been dug through them trying to seperate paper from paper.
Hmm, you may have a point there - but would gentle steaming not do the job? I say gentle because you just want to dissolve the glue, not ruin the plasterboard paper. I haven't tried it - just a thought.
hundred lafarge a month for about 3 years and it doesn't say f*ck all.
The recommendation from the manufacturers is to use a drywall primer before papering. Then, allegedly, this is not a problem.
The first thing we had to do when renovating houses was strip all ceilings and walls, I suppose it's OK *if* you know, if you don't and wet everything
3 times with a sprayer before lifting a scraper as we had to, things get a bit messy :-p given that both sheets of paper have lifted and bubbled
Ah, ok, didn't know there was such a product - is it PVA based?
Probably. More than likely it's just dilute Unibond.
e.g.
dioxide, e.g.
No one has commented about mine. I'm a stickler for perfection, and if finished propery with a slurry coat of finish, or painted with drywall topcoat, you'd be pushed to tell the difference from a skimmed wall. by the time it is painted.
Unibond and white emulsion, then.... :-)
If finished properly with Drywall Topcoat, the removal of the wallpaper shouldn't affect the plasterboard base.
It's more like dilute emulsion with added plaster. A slurry coat of joint finish followed by the normal priming with dilute emulsion and an emulsion top coat is just about as effective.
I'm not suprised...plasterboard cant talk. :-P
Ah, but have you never heard the expression that walls have ears?
Most people don't talk through their ears.
There are anagrammatic possibilities, however.
Owain
They most certainly do, I found one in my sausages.
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