Oh boy its been a long time since I’ve posted here… Don’t think I’ve posted since the big change a few years ago and I had to re-register.
Any how even with work super slow I’m back here to get some input for a job I’m bidding.
Have a good client with an older house that I’ve done plenty of work for including drywalling the ceiling in two rooms where the plaster was way beyond repair. Now they want to have the upstairs hallway done which includes the stairwell too. The plaster in this hall is solid with issues such as a couple cracks, peeling paint and an unsightly repair.
Due to the combination of irregularness of this hall as it snakes through the upper level and a crown, they would choke and very likely forget the whole thing if I gave them a bid to drywall over the top of the plaster like they want.
So I’m looking for some options to make this ceiling look decent, that I can present. I’m going to straight out add that doing a new skim coat might be beyond me as I’ve never done that before and really don’t want to go to school on a good customers house.
One thing that does keep coming to mind is something I saw about a decade ago is a material that goes on like wall paper and gets painted. It hides minor blemishes, giving a fairly nice clean look again. Searching the net turns up nothing other than textured stuff. Anybody know what I’m talking about or better yet have experience with it?
Scott
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Not much help
The only thing I've seen on jobs I've been on is similar to what you are talking about re:texture.
Coarse paper or finer burlap. You can see each thread woven. Like cloth.
I do know on one they applied it and the paste help fill in the small indentations (I guess)
But, they rolled with a thick nap roller, thinned compound (I guess again-they were gone and no one knew exactly what went on when I got there), and knocked that down with a knife. This actually gave the appearance of a skim coat as they then sanded it down (I guess).
I guess because I saw the first part while hanging a couple doors there. Came back later to trim it out and saw the roll coat-decent, but a bit streaked-ridges.
Showed up after paint for something and it didn't look bad.
Me, I'd probably tape the few cracks and skim it if it's not in that bad of shape. Working between crown in a hall won't be that great, but you'd be done in the time it takes to do all the above.
I guess.......
Yeah, there's a sort of wallpaper made for that, but I can't remember the term for it just now. A good wallpaper store should know, though.
It came to me -- "wall
It came to me -- "wall liner".
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