wallpaper-attempting to paint bathroom

[bigbrad-diy]

Hellos folks,
I am new to mobile home repair and new to working on mobile homes. I have always lived in typeical foundation stick built homes, and now living with my girlfriend in kansas in a 1985mobile home.

The problem is that we recently have decided to redo the one end of the home and now are in the bathroom. The bathroom appears to have years ( 2 layers) of wallpaper on it. The bottom appears to have come pre wrapped around the wallboard. I tryed the normal wallpaper stripper by dif and not a chance... I have read that you have to sand it all off the do multiple coats of primer before painting.

The sanding route is the one that I am currently undertaking, and go what a PIA. Messy and very time consuming to get all the paper off. Was wondering is if I am able to sand the walls and get them smooth to the touch, with some wallpaper still on them, would it be a problem? Could I then just do the two coats of primer and then paint??

Thank you very much for any insight!!

[Greg]

Hi & welcome. It my be possible that you have vinyl wall covered wall board. I didn't think it was popular until the 90's.

It may be quicker & easier to replace the sheetrock with new.

Greg

[1987Commodore]

What is under the paper? Wood? If it's like my "87, the original paper has a thin plastic coating on it. What I did was peel that very thin plastic off by finding a loose edge like around a staple, and peeling off strips. Time consuming, but provides a better base for the new paint. I was left with a paper coating over the thin wood. I then primed and painted. It turned out pretty good. I caulked along the battens before painting in my second room, to avoid having gaps show between the battens and the wall. Learned that from the first room. Now, I don't know how having another layer of paper applied over the original would affect the original layer.

[bigbrad-diy]

it appears to be sheetrock. but it was definately wrapped. I mean this stuff DOES NOT COME OFF. Even when using a sander wtih 60 grit to remove it it wont come off, but does make the wall a nice smooth surface for primer. I think that as long as I hand rub it later and check for smoothness it should be fine. I mean I dont ever think the paper on there will come off.

[Greg]

the other possibility would be to skim coat with joint compound and sand smooth. That has been done to smooth out textured vinyl wall paper.

Greg

[AbbottsManor]

I didn't sand the walls, just the trim. Wash everything down with TSP or similar cleaner. I used several coats of primer, then several coats of color. I used Flat paint and a decent nap on the roller and you can not see the original texture at all.

Chris

[bigbrad-diy]

thanks for all the insight guys!