I’m in the process of remodeling a 1970’s vintage ski condo. Several rooms have outdated foil and cloth textured wallpaper that needs a fresh look. The paper is in reasonably good condition, with very little loose or pealing edges. Can either or both of these surfaces be painted or textured and painted without undesireable consequences down the road. If so, what would be a viable course of action for each surface covering?
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Why don't you just bite the bullet and rent a steamer? If you paint the foil and fabric, it'll be a horrendous job to steam the paper off later. Painting the foil probably won't work anyway, lousy adhesion.
" If so, what would be a viable course of action for each surface covering?"
Removing it.
Then paint or texutre.
Much better in the long run.
If you ABSOLUTELY MUST leave it in place then you want to prime it with and OIL BASED primer. And if you want to texture it TWO COATS of oil primer and let it well cure first.
If you shoot texture staight on the wall paper the next day you might find that 1/2 the wallpaper is now on the floor.
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A-holes. Hey every group has to have one. And I have been elected to be the one. I should make that my tagline.
DO NOT PAINT OVER WALLPAPER....EVER!!!
Take the time to take it off when it's at its easiest. If you put paint on it then someday, someone else will have to take it off (or worse, remove the drywall and start over). Just take the effort to make it right and don't leave the mess for the next guy.
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You can paint anything, except perhaps your teflon cookware.
With wallpaper, the big problem with painting (beyond appearance) is that the paint makes it harder to remove later. But foil wallpaper is already a problem for removal (because it's impervious to water), so no biggie to paint it (if the paint sticks OK).
With the cloth stuff it's harder to say. It may be fairly waterproof, in which case painting will do no (more) harm.
Also, either or both of the wallpapers MAY be "strippable". "Strippable" wallpaper is designed in two layers so that, when it's time to remove it, the top layer can be peeled off, leaving the bottom layer of simple porous paper to be soaked off. If you have strippable wallpaper then painting will cause no additional work for removal.
If you have strippable wallpaper then painting will cause no additional work for removal.
But if you have strippable wallpaper, then just remove it. Don't paint over it.
Don't paint the wall paper strippable or not. Do wahatever you need to do to get it off. After you get the paper off you'll then have to wash the walls real good to remove the residue of glue from the walls before painting. Use an oil base primer if you use latex primer you'll just be rewetting any glue residue on the walls and it will look like your roller is shedding.
After the walls are primed you can use latex paint as the oil base primer seals the wall surface
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