Color on basement wall?

[Fredriksson78]

We're figuring out how to furnish a basement room in the simplest way possible. Concrete floors and plastered walls. The plan is steel studs and drywall on the walls. The walls are painted, and the paint has significantly come off on the lower part due to moisture. We drained around the house last summer.

Question one: do we need to remove the paint from the wall before installing studs and drywall? Someone mentioned it might be the wrong paint, but we don't know. Does it need to be removed even if nothing will be touching it? It seems like a heck of a job to remove...

Question two: this will be used as a music room. It doesn't need to have perfect acoustics, but it's obviously unwise to build in major sound issues – is there a risk of doing that with an air gap behind the drywall?

Thanks for your answers!

 

[Fredriksson78]

So, does the paint need to be removed? Even though we're installing metal studs and a board and nothing is touching?

 

[Stefan N]

It is most likely plastic paint that should be removed, especially if you are going to enclose it.

 

[Fredriksson78]

It's most likely plastic paint that should be removed, especially if you're going to enclose it.

Oh, I suspected that. But how meticulous do you really need to be, considering the wall won't be visible? Isn't it enough to just scrape off the parts that are a bit loose?

And what about the floor? No paint has come off there despite it being enclosed with a Platon mat over it for x number of years.