How to handle older interior wall?

[J.Kj]

Hello!

New to the forum and new to house and renovation. I've been living in a rental since 2010 but have now taken the plunge and bought my first house.

We thought we'd start slowly by removing the wallpaper in the living room and then tidying up the surface with spackle, etc., and then painting. After tearing through at least ten layers of wallpaper (fun with history), we got down to what you can see in the pictures. I've tried all the tricks I've read about, but it's very laborious to remove everything.

What would you have done? Continued removing wallpaper to then sand and put up a renovation wallpaper? Remove the wall and put up drywall/renovation drywall? Something else?

Thanks for the help!

 

[Mats-S]

Remove the wall and put up plaster/renovation plasterboard

I think I would go for renovation plasterboard if the wall itself is stable. There's no reason to remove the wall, just screw the plasterboard onto the existing wallpaper, provided you find decent studs to screw the plasterboard into.

That in the picture looks like Tretex (?). It's not suitable for attaching the plasterboard, but behind it, there are definitely wooden studs to screw into. They are usually spaced at 60 cm centers, so once you find one, you just measure to the next one

 

[HammerGuuurl]

I would tear down what we believe is Tretex (the dark brown), and then screw up new drywall.

You will also have the pleasure of seeing if there are hidden faults behind the wall.