tape & texture on vinyl wrapped drywall
I’m a Handyman doing some remodel work in a manufactured home. The client would like to put texture or wallpaper over the vinyl wrapped wallboard. I’m thinking the only thing to do with this stuff is tear it out.
Does anyone have experience with trying to get a textured finish or wallpaper to stick on top of the vinyl covering? Is there anything that can be put on the vinyl first that would allow mud to stick? They have put KILZ primer over the stuff in one of the bathrooms in preparation for experimenting with wall paper or drywall texture. They’ve also removed all the matching trim pieces exposing the gaps. Looks to me like it’s not a smooth enough surface for wallpaper to look good.
By the way, I’ve lurked around here at breaktime a lot but haven’t posted before. Picked up a lot of good tips, though. Thanks to everyone!
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Is there anything that can be put on the vinyl first ......
Yup. A layer of 1/2" rock, taped and mudded at the seams and corners.
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Thanks for the post YesMaam27577,
Your approach is the first one I thought of, but it does create soime problems with trim, door jambs, abutting cabinets and stuff like that. Still, it's the option I'll consider first.
I tear out those stapled on batten strips and mud/tape the joints.
It takes alot of mud because none of the edges are tapered so you have to float them out alot to make the invisible.
The cases where I did this the board wasn't vinyl coated, it was wall paper straight from the factory. I sanded the basic areas a little where I was going to mud and that was it.
Never hung any paper on them.
Matt
sometimes ya gotta work with what you got,this is a manf home and i would guess resheetrocking would be out of the question. i would go in and hot mud the joints,,then taper them as well as possilble. then oil base kiltz or comparable. then texure or paper.
i think the paper would have less chance to give trouble with the shifting that a mobile home has. larry
hand me the chainsaw, i need to trim the casing just a hair.
Thanks for the reply! When you say hot mud, are you referring to a setting type compound as opposed to a drying type?
yes ,something like durabond 90. larryhand me the chainsaw, i need to trim the casing just a hair.
A couple of months ago I painted one of those.
It is appears to be a type of 3/8" DW behind the vinyl.
Now except for the kitchen and bathrooms the vinyl was a white textured patern.
The kitchen and bathroom had a printed flower patern and was flat.
Spend lots of time caulking around the battens and trim and had to be care with taping trim as it was a printed paper and even blue tape would take some of it off. Used a special tape for "sensitive" surfaces.
I was surprised, but the surface was really nice to paint. Used a tinted SW Pre-Rite primer and one coat on the texutred surface. Took 2 to cover the patterned surfaces.
Based on that I would think that if you take off the battens and tape and mud that area. but you want to cut back the vinyl maybe 2-3" on each side so that the tapei bonds to the DW and not the vinyl. The last coats of mud would overlape the vinyl to hold it in place.
Then I think that you just need to print the joints and shoot the texture.
But I would want to experiment on maybe a closet, less used bedroom or the bathroom area behind the toilet to see if this going to work and how well before going the whole area.
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Yeah Bill, that's the stuff. 3/8 drywall wrapped with a vinyl coated paper. Thanks for the insight. There is a small second bathroom where we have agreed to experiment. I'll use the ideas presented here. Then we'll move on the the kitchen which is pretty large for a manfactured home.
Currently I'm working in the master bath, and since we removed an old tub and a seperate shower stall and redid some plumbing I just removed all the old panels and am putting up new drywall. She wanted a big one piece fiberglass shower stall designed for new construction; had to open up the exterior wall to get it in. It's been a fun job for a "handyman." My first bathroom remodel.
Trying to talk her into new cabinets in the kitchen so I can gut it there too, but how much money you wanna spend on a manufactured home?
If you decide to rip some of that out, those manufactured homes that I've worked on had the drywall glued to the studs. Tenacious stuff, took a lot longer to rip out and clean up. Just something to keep in mind.
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