Patching and Plastering - Plaser (?) or similar over paneling
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slumlordfrank
02-16-05, 07:28 AM
I'm pretty sure that I'm about to get possession of a foreclosure that has real ugly, cheapo (the kind that's actually a picture of grain) paenling in the living room and dining room. In years past I would seal this junk and then paint it like normal walls and let the tenants/new owners live with the (barely visible)seams.
However, about a month or so ago my wife saw someone on one of the HGTV shows, she doesn't remember which one) cover old paneling with a kind of plaster and just do a light texture on the wall. She also thinks that they mixed coloring in with it so they didn't have to paint afterwards.
Has anyone used something like this? Any ideas or suggestions? It may not be available in our "whitebread, redneck, quiet little mountain town" as they sing on Southpark, but Austin is only 50 miles away and I"m there about once a month anyway.
Thanks in advance.
frank
However, about a month or so ago my wife saw someone on one of the HGTV shows, she doesn't remember which one) cover old paneling with a kind of plaster and just do a light texture on the wall. She also thinks that they mixed coloring in with it so they didn't have to paint afterwards.
Has anyone used something like this? Any ideas or suggestions? It may not be available in our "whitebread, redneck, quiet little mountain town" as they sing on Southpark, but Austin is only 50 miles away and I"m there about once a month anyway.
Thanks in advance.
frank
awesomedell
02-20-05, 08:06 AM
I've got a customer that specializes in buying elcheapo fixer uppers & turning them into rentals. We had one last yr that had alot of paneling like what you're talking about. What we did and this came out looking pretty good, was to primer the stuff with an oil based primer and allowed that to dry for a day. (This place was vacant so we cracked the windows over night) Next day the primer over the dark wood paneling had sort of a light chocolate look to it. We mixed up lite joint compound and sprayed a medium coverage texture using a medium sized tip on the sprayer. We didn't knock it down at all when wet, let it dry for a day then went over it with lightly with a pole sander and used sanding screen that was about half worn slick. The paneling should be cleaned real well before you try this, wipe it down good & get the dust, nicotine build-up & what not off the wall.
We've mixed some paint in with texture mud to shoot ceilings before and it works out ok, I guess we mixed about a pint in, just kind of did it by eye & experimented until we had a look the customer liked. Neither the paint or mud manufacturers or the professional associations will tell you this is a good practice, but in the real world alot of things get done that you don't see in the book. :coffee:
We've mixed some paint in with texture mud to shoot ceilings before and it works out ok, I guess we mixed about a pint in, just kind of did it by eye & experimented until we had a look the customer liked. Neither the paint or mud manufacturers or the professional associations will tell you this is a good practice, but in the real world alot of things get done that you don't see in the book. :coffee: