Wallpaper and Wallcoverings - wallpaper on knockdown wall

my walls are drywalled with the knockdown technique. how do you prepare these walls for wallpaper?

Smooth the wall out with joint compound, seal with Zinnser's Gardz, prime with a prewallcovering primer.

Or hang a liner paper, and prep according to the paper you plan on hanging.

okay......the suspense is killing me! what on earth is a "knockdown techniqued" drywall????? :confused:

........just curious!! :)

Annette-

Knockdown texture is a technique where drywall compound is sprayed onto the walls and the "blobs" are slightly smoothed (knocked down) with one pass with a wide drywall knife. It leaves a textured surface which hides imperfections and has more "interest" than a totally smooth wall. You can control the amount and size of the texture by controlling the settings on the sprayer. Some people can do it without a sprayer, but I've never mastered that method. :)

The need to level the walls with a skim coat of drywall compound will depend on the pattern of the wallpaper. If the wallpaper has a fairly distinctive pattern, you can skip the skim coat and the texturing pretty much "disappears".

OOOOH! of course! i've seen that a lot - i just never knew that it was called anything other than "textured"! Duh! ....but that makes perfect sense!

thank you so much! that was going to bug me forever until i found out what the heck it was!! :)