Wallpaper and Wallcoverings - Blue wall behind wallpaper?
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Cara
10-17-05, 02:43 AM
I just removed 2 small walls of wallpaper (using a scorer, DIF, scraper). 2 coats came off (the outer paper and the glue coat). Now I have a light blue/minty green looking wall left. What is this? Is it more glue of some sort? Is it some weird drywall/sheetrock material? It does not seem to be paint.
The house was built in 1965 and I don't know if the paper was original or more recent. If I try to scrape at it, I immediately reveal brown, fibrous stuff and make a gouge...so I stopped scraping at it. What is this stuff and what do I do? We planned on painting the walls, but we could wallpaper over this if that's a better option.
....Well, now that I go back and look at it when it's dry, it may be paint. It's not blue now, but a mint-green and looks more like paint when it's dry. And the original owners seemed to love decorating with mint green since it's all over the house, so perhaps this was a previous wall color here too. But any input would be welcome, since it may be something else???
The house was built in 1965 and I don't know if the paper was original or more recent. If I try to scrape at it, I immediately reveal brown, fibrous stuff and make a gouge...so I stopped scraping at it. What is this stuff and what do I do? We planned on painting the walls, but we could wallpaper over this if that's a better option.
....Well, now that I go back and look at it when it's dry, it may be paint. It's not blue now, but a mint-green and looks more like paint when it's dry. And the original owners seemed to love decorating with mint green since it's all over the house, so perhaps this was a previous wall color here too. But any input would be welcome, since it may be something else???
prowallguy
10-17-05, 05:07 AM
It is most likely the surface of the drywall. I've seen them come in a variety of flavors: green, blue, orange, and yellow. I wouldn't try to remove anything further.