Vinyl Walls Dillema
lalalottalove
I have HORRID vinyl wallpaper, covered in flowers in my kitchen.I want to paint it, but do I need to go about it in any special way?Primer, paint, done?Or could I just paint it?Or should I go through the hassle of trying to remove the vinyl?
catwoman708
Don't even think about painting it, you'll just have to remove it. Paint does not stick to vinyl, and it will eventually have to come off anyway.Get some wall paper remover, a spray bottle, a "scoring" wall paper tool, and a good scraper. A heat gun, garment steamer, or hair dryer might come in handy too.Score the paper, spray on the remover liquid, let it sit a little while, and start scraping. If it's peeling up anywhere, start there. It seems to take forever, you will end up gouging the wall in places, and there will be stubborn patches. This is where the heat gun, steamer, or hair dryer might help loosen up stubborn patches. If you have kids old enough or friends willing enough to help, have a wall paper party, and bribe them with food (after they've helped a while). Pizza usually does the trick.When you've gotten all the paper off, there will be gunk left on the wall. After it dries, scrape it and or sand it off, then plan on re-texturing the wall, priming, then painting. For a kitchen or bath, it is usually recommended to use oil based paint because it is resistant to high humidity. BUT, it is harder to clean up, and once you have oil base on the walls, you have to repaint with oil base. You can't put latex paint over it, or it usually peels. (I have it in my very humid bathroom, and 8 yrs. later it's just now starting to peel a little next to the tub where it gets splashed.)
alyssonj
I don't know if there's a difference between vinyl wallpaper and regular wallpaper or whatever, but I know when I removed the wallpaper in my kitchen, all I did was soak the wall down with super hot water and a sponge, and then I scraped it off with a paint scraper. You'll have to do this twice, because there's a layer of glue underneath the top layer of wallpaper (the part with the pattern). If you're careful when scraping the glue off, and depending on the condition of the wall underneath the wallpaper, you shouldn't have to worry about re-texturing or anything like that. If it's just sheet rock underneath, you should just be able to paint right over it. Once again, it really depends on the room and what kind of wallpaper you have, but that's what worked for me!
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