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Reason behind this paint peel
Pictures are from the bathroom closet, only the paint in this closet is peeling. bathroom walls are fine.
Any idea why this paint is peeling by looking at pictures?
I was thinking to stick one of ...
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Is it paint or wallpaper?
We got recessed lights installed and are looking to do some patchwork over the small nails that the lights were installed on. In my home, the previous owner has provided both paint as well as ...
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Paint/ inside of stone wall
I recently moved into a ~150 year-old Victorian Terraced House in London. The people that lived in here before had glued some things to the interio wall that left some ugly areas upon removal.
I am ...
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How should I prepare the surface of my walls after removing wallpaper?
I am remodeling the bathroom in my 1961 house. I have gyprock lath walls that were covered with wallpaper that had been painted over.
Upon removing the wallpaper there were patches of smooth paint/...
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How should I prepare papered plaster walls for tile?
I want to tile 100% of my bathroom walls. The potential problem is that portions of the plaster walls have been wallpapered AND painted(!). I suspect that the painter ran into trouble removing the ...
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Preparing a wallpapered room for paint
I have a 1920s house with plaster walls. It was wallpapered at one point (no idea when) and has accrued maybe 2 or 3 coats of paint since. I'm planning to take the paper down because I can't stand it ...
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How to seal plaster before using the Anti Mould Paint
I had some mould (due to condensation) on bedroom wallpaper so I have removed all the wallpapers. I am planning to paint the wall with Ronseal Anti-Mould Paint instead of using wallpapers. Also, ...
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Covering Up Some Old Wall Art
We've got some wall art painted on to our walls with a paint brush that we'd like to cover up, but we'd like to be able to cover it up in a way that won't ruin the integrity of it, so that if anyone ...
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Should I paint over this wallpaper?
I’m having a bit of a decision making battle with myself. I’m looking to paint my living room and as I was laying tape down on the trim I saw a piece of wallpaper coming up in a very tucked away spot. ...
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I've stripped woodchip wallpaper with lead paint on it. I think I have all the dust in my carpet and furnitre. What do I do?
I'm 17, I wanted to decorate my bedroom and decided to start stripping the wallpaper as my dad is working on other things at the moment (planning on moving house soon). Our house was built around 1974 ...
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Likelyhood of lead paint in 1970s build UK
I'm currently stripping some horrible old anaglypta wallpaper and noticed that under the lining paper there is a bright yellow paint underneath. Some of it is coming away, most of it is not and I'm ...
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How to fix wall with paint and wallpaper?
I recently bought a house and was removing the TV mount from a wall. The wall shows signs that it's paint over wallpaper and the mount was stuck to the wall so I had to use a scrapper to get the mount ...
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Painting Over Wall Blemishes
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Background: I have some walls that were once covered in wallpaper and my wife and I removed them when we bought our house. We then casually patched and sanded some of the blemishes left ...
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How can I salvage the walls after painting over wallpaper?
So I moved into our house and the lady before me had faux finished the walls. I used latex paint and painted over everything. Ah, a fresh coat of paint.... NOPE! Well, she had painted over wallpaper ...
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How to paint / decorate both sides of a plasterboard?
This christmas for a family home DIY project we've used plasterboard.
Not being DIY savvy, thought it would be a nice and easy to material to work with, and it was!
Now we would like to decorate our ...
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