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   Danno | Feb 13, 2008 02:36am | #1

   Yes. Absolutley. Prime or paint with specially made product for under paper called "sizing." Whatever you do, do not apply it directly to bare drywall unless you want it on the permanently and want the curses of every owner of painter sho follows you!

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   rasher | Feb 13, 2008 02:41am | #2

   Well, I think that's my real criteria: I want good paper adhesion as long as the paper is hung, but then I want it come off nice and easy in the future.
   Apply sizing on top of or instead of primer?

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   Danno | Feb 13, 2008 04:18am | #3

   I think I'd do priming, then wallpaper, but a wallpaper/decorating or paint store may know for sure. I've just had way too much fun stripping wallpaper off walls that weren't primed or sized--tears the paper on the drwall, makes the drywall paper bister. All sorts of fun.

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   paintguy | Feb 13, 2008 04:41am | #4

   Oil prime with a good quality primer. This does a couple things: gives you a great seal over drywall and dries fast.

   Second apply an excellent sizing. We use a product called Teknabond

   http://www.acehardware.com/sm-golden-harvest-teknabond-multi-purpose-adhesive-12-pack-15394--pi-1279028.html

   Both will make your job turn out better.

   Jon

   "There is no good answer to a stupid question"
   Russian saying

   
   

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   Edited 2/12/2008 8:43 pm by paintguy

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   rlrefalo | Feb 13, 2008 04:56am | #5

   Rasher, like paintguy said but do 2 coats oil prime. Now is the time to overkill.

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   hammer1 | Feb 13, 2008 06:01am | #6

   We always use a standard drywall primer and then coat the walls with wallpaper sizing. There are a lot of different types of wallpaper, some are pre-pasted others require a special adhesive but they all go over wallboard primer and sizing. It's the sizing that makes removal in the future easy. The primer seals the raw paper and compound on the sheetrock.

   Beat it to fit / Paint it to match

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   BillHartmann | Feb 13, 2008 06:29am | #7

   SW make a PrepRite Prewallpaper primer which is combo primer sizing.

   But if you have enough of the high build then use that and apply a sparate sizing.

   If you don't I will HAUNT YOU. (IIRC correctly you are in the KC area and in a earlier threads you gave your location.)

   You deffinitly want a primer (or even paint) under the WP.

   Most wallpaper installed by a builder has nothing and infact the DW is often poorly finished. Lot$ of work getting the wall back into shape in painting in the future.

   Doing just that today.

   Entryway had strippable paper which came off REAL EASY.

   But it has been papered before and when that paper was removed the DW was torn and nothing doing to it. So even though the new paper came off easy the wall was in bad shape and had to be skim coated.

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   A-holes. Hey every group has to have one. And I have been elected to be the one. I should make that my tagline.

   
   

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   Edited 2/12/2008 10:30 pm by BillHartmann

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   Hackinatit | Feb 13, 2008 04:55pm | #8

   I've yet to find an evil enough curse for those who don't apply primer and sizing under wallpaper....

   Liberty = Freedom from unjust or undue governmental control.

   American Heritage Dictionary

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   jesse | Feb 13, 2008 07:53pm | #10

   I've yet to find a suitable curse for wallpaper in general.People buying houses HATE wallpaper.

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   rasher | Feb 13, 2008 08:47pm | #11

   Well... the way the market's looking these days, we're probably going to be in our current house for a loooooong time, so I'm not too concerned about what a future buyer may or may not like.Good tip on tinting the primer to match the paper, though.And for all to verify: I should have all of the trim installed and painted BEFORE paper, right? (Chair rail, crown molding, window and door casings, etc.)

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   Hackinatit | Feb 13, 2008 09:16pm | #12

   "And for all to verify: I should have all of the trim installed and painted BEFORE paper, right? (Chair rail, crown molding, window and door casings, etc.)"

   Yes. It will prevent you spending mucho effort on cutting in next to the paper.Liberty = Freedom from unjust or undue governmental control.

   American Heritage Dictionary

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   Hackinatit | Feb 13, 2008 09:17pm | #13

   I don't hate wallpaper...

    when it's somewhere else.Liberty = Freedom from unjust or undue governmental control.

   American Heritage Dictionary

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   BryanSayer | Feb 13, 2008 05:48pm | #9

   I concur the regular primer (I would not consider two coats to be overkill), followed by a specialty wallpaper primer. My wallpaper person prefers the stuff from Sherwin-Williams. Pick the background color of your wallpaper and have your wallpaper primer tinted to match that. If you have any uneven joints at the ceiling or what have you, it will help hide the problem.