All white rooms make me feel like I'm in a urinal. Maybe he got pizzed off.
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Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?
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LoL I wish….
His ‘sensitive artist ears’ couldn’t handle the noise of the boiler recirculating pump through the walls. His office was above the boiler room, and he couldn’t handle it.
Nice enough guy and I ended up finding a better, and higher paying, tenant (half deaf guy)…and the artist paid for the new VIEWIT ad.
Worked out in the end just annoying.
sburns
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Well I ran into a "Kevin" moment at the house this morning, just when I thought I dealt with all that stuff.
Noticed some bubbles on the surfaces of one of the walls in the living room. Worried it was some kind of water seepage. Poking at it didn't move the bubbles around. Got out the utility knife to cut it open, no water or signs of water. So as I was cutting it I noticed how thick the material was from the wall, expecting it to be pretty thin, right it's just paint layer, nope and below was bare wall surface. WTF = I think this is wall paper which has come loose and this dumb dumbs painted over it. I've even painted over it myself a couple of times without knowing it...
Noticed some bubbles on the surfaces of one of the walls in the living room. Worried it was some kind of water seepage. Poking at it didn't move the bubbles around. Got out the utility knife to cut it open, no water or signs of water. So as I was cutting it I noticed how thick the material was from the wall, expecting it to be pretty thin, right it's just paint layer, nope and below was bare wall surface. WTF = I think this is wall paper which has come loose and this dumb dumbs painted over it. I've even painted over it myself a couple of times without knowing it...
I have a wall sweating when something is placed against it….idiot Kevin didn’t insulate the walls so that wall in particular is exterior wall, air, drywall….FML…Well I ran into a "Kevin" moment at the house this morning, just when I thought I dealt with all that stuff.
Noticed some bubbles on the surfaces of one of the walls in the living room. Worried it was some kind of water seepage. Poking at it didn't move the bubbles around. Got out the utility knife to cut it open, no water or signs of water. So as I was cutting it I noticed how thick the material was from the wall, expecting it to be pretty thin, right it's just paint layer, nope and below was bare wall surface. WTF = I think this is wall paper which has come loose and this dumb dumbs painted over it. I've even painted over it myself a couple of times without knowing it...
MILs room is the first I’m insulating properly.
Once wall paper has been painted over it’s a real dickens of a thing to get off . Best wishes , that job is going to suck.
We had some water damage from ice daming , house is 18yrs old and looks like it may have happened before . I’m getting a 10k shingle job for my birthday
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We had some water damage from ice daming , house is 18yrs old and looks like it may have happened before . I’m getting a 10k shingle job for my birthday
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Having removed this type of covering before...I would remove the drywall and replace it just because it's SUCH A PAIN IN THE *** to remove.
However...what I did is spray water onto the wall covering and wait 10-15min. It starts bubbling and it easier to remove. But since your issue is that it was painted over multiple times...Just remove the drywall and replace it. Or pull a real Kevin and put drywall on top of drywall....I mean a Kevin job + a Kevin job = next home owner's problem.
sburns
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Lol I think you are being influenced by Kevin now!!
I am not sure if I have drywall upstairs, I did some work in the bathroom and the stuff was impossible to remove and had all these mesh wiring in the corners.
Sounds like plaster and lath. How old is the house?
sburns
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Yeah that is what I was thinking,
I think early 60's smaller bungalo. But it might be custom since my neigbour is the only other house like mine in the area.
if its 1960's you probably have what's called "rock lath" which was briefly used in the transition from traditional plaster/lath and more modern sheet drywall. You'll find metal mesh on interior corners and rigid steel on exterior corners. The sheets they used are much smaller - usually 18-24" high and 2-3' long. You can usually determine this by looking at it on an angle with strong natural light (depending on how well it was skim coated /finished). They sheets also typically had periodic small half inch / three quarter holes for the finish coat. if anything its much more durable than modern 1/2 but much more labor intensive.
sburns
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Yes that sounds more like what I have. Thanks!
I found out it's hard to match the thinkness as it seems they are not the same to modern measurements.
This is what I have on my walls. Small 1x2 or 1x3 boards. Very easily seen due to the job of mudding it after the installation.
I plan on removing it all with time, and will replace with proper 2x4 framing (not sure if 2x6 is worth it as I'd lose an additional bit of space in each direction) and BATT insulation prior to covering it up again. Might even go for the thicker drywall just for added insulation.
Not touching the ceiling though, I'm going to leave that. Plus it's basically fine except in one small section where it's separating.
I figure this type of work I can deal with prior to the major renovation on the ground floor.
There is a product call wallpaper glue softener , you mix it with water and spray it on . There is also a little hand tool ( sold everywhere) that has rollers with a zillion little spike , you roll over an area and it lets the water in behind the wall paper . It really works , like 300% faster . Get some beers and have some guys over , you can roll and wait and scrap with I hand , beer in other
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Thicker drywall is not worth it as insulation. I havent seen the numbers but I suspect a thermal break between studs and drywall (something like furring or resilient channel) will be cheaper and better thermally. I'm not sure if either approach would ever pay off thermally. Do an awesome.job with air sealing and it will be an order of magnitude more effective thermally compared to the same amount of money/time in fiddly thermal breaks.
Mad Mike
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Small bubbles that look like blisters can happen when latex paint is applied over oil-based paint. It was a nightmare in my house. Best solution is to sand the impacted areas and apply an appropriate primer for latex over oil.
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