I have a 10 x10 feet x 8 feet ceilings bedroom that has a lot of peeling/flaking paint on all 4 walls and ceiling. Moisture problem was fixed years ago, I am just getting to the paint removal now. House is 55 years old, so I don’t want generate any lead dust or fumes from heating or sanding the paint.
After doing some research, I am not sure what is the fastest option (money is secondary) to solve my problem. About 20% of the paint is adhered well, and the rest comes off when scraped using a wood chisel, but is just taking too long, and chisels dull fast. After doing some research, I think my options are:
1. 1/4 drywall overlay (downside is 2 window and 2 doors would need jamb extensions, labor intensive)
2. Fein multimaster tool (scraper attachement)
3. Paint shaver tool (very expensive tool)
4. carbide hand scraper (but can’t find a brand larger than 2 inches wide)
5. Use a faux finish paint technique to “hide” the peeling paint (bad for Karma, not sure if I will get into Heaven)
I am really in a bind here. Does anyone have any recommendations?
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are walls plaster or drywall? if its drywall just pull it all and replace it. if its plaster hire someone else to scrape it.
Buy the carbide scraper, wear a decent dust mask and scrape. There's a reason that 2" is the largest most places stock--it's hard enough to work the 2" for hours on end.
A sharp carbide scraper will remove a lot of paint quickly. Use a diamond sharpener if need be to keep it as sharp as possible.
Good scraping!
I would rent a sanding machine with a vacumn.
Then prime with oil primer . The deal with it is it will soak in and when dry it will actually glue it if its flat paint . Then another coat , let fully dry and finish the room covering all. Might take two coats or three .
A wipe down texture could speed this up over the primer .
Tim
he said the cause was repired years ago....
wait some more years and the rest of the paint should take it's self off....Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
yur not married either heh heh
if I was I still wouldn't touch it...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
wow
not wow...
I'd do the prep up to the point of opening the paint can...
won't even select the color...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
not wow...
I'd do the prep up to the point of opening the paint can...
won't even select the color...
Gotcha , its a purple thing .
How about a quick DW overlay on the ceiling only, with a simple crown molding (or "picture rail") instead of taping the corners?
I don't know if you're working with plaster or sheetrock, but you're going to have to spend quite awhile working upside down to make things look really smooth. Personally, I like the idea of four seams to tape (sheetrock route) rather than all the scraping, smoothing and sanding you'd have to do for the same result if you work with what's there.
On the other hand, you say that only 20 percent of the paint is adhered well - if you know that, it seems like the scraping is all but done. Have you considered skimming the surface with joint compound and a wide (18") blade? It may be too much work for "smoothwall", but if you left a little texture under some flat paint you'd have time to find other ways to earn your wings. Choose your battles, life is short.
Thanks to everyone that replied. I never thought about just drywalling the ceiling, sounds good. My house was built in 1949, so it has plaster, but what's called Rock Lathe plaster (not wood lathe). Also, I could probably handle using the carbide scraper on walls only.