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Evening all,

After some advice, I'm redecorating my backroom, stripped all the paper off the walls and ceiling and noticed that the walls were still slimey with the paste, and the ceiling now has imprints of the ceiling paper design on it (which i'm guessing is from the paste). For customers I've always scraped, PVA'd and skimmed after paper had been taken off, and not had any comebacks, but now I've done it for myself, I'm wondering if I've been quite lucky (granted, the ceilings have never had the paper imprinted on them, and the walls have never been this slimey) so am planning on WBA my backroom instead as a few of the walls are quite shiney. Never used the stuff before.

I know PVA doesnt like wallpaper paste, but as I said never had any comebacks, and Ive never sugar soaped before skimming on said jobs. What do you guys do? Do you use WBA on walls and ceilings after wallpaper stripped, or do you scrape, PVA, wondering if I'm making too big a deal of the dried paste or not. Or do you all wash the walls first? Been kind of an eye opener really. Just put some water on the walls to test them, and theyve gone really slimey again, think the previous owner went OTT on the paste!

Thanks for any comments
 
Like you say do a test first, sometimes after paper is stripped it's usually ok to pva or WBA.
But I've had it where I've pva'd Walls & it re wets the paste when there's a thick layer of paste on the wall.

To wash em just get a bucket of hot water & a spot of washing up liquid
then brush Walls/ceilings with a big brush then scrape all the wet paste off with an old trowel then sponge Walls over with clean water then dry them.
Then you can pva or WBA ;)
 
no need to pva, the moisture in the skim will liven the paste and it will act as a bonding agent ::)
 
steve cov said:
no need to pva, the moisture in the skim will liven the paste and it will act as a bonding agent ::)
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That's what i meant to say ;D
And when you get fed up of the new skim you can steam strip it off for a fresh coat ;)
 
dont shoot the messenger mate, i wasnt sure so PM'd carping. he told me to f**k off cus hes busy skimming a wall in his kitchen :-\
 
steve cov said:
dont shoot the messenger mate, i wasnt sure so PM'd carping. he told me to (french word) off cus hes busy skimming a wall in his kitchen :-\
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Credit to Carp, it takes time to get a quality finnish.
 
steve cov said:
dont shoot the messenger mate, i wasnt sure so PM'd carping. he told me to (french word) off cus hes busy skimming a wall in his kitchen :-\
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Just the one wall ::)
 
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