I've just started removing the wallpaper from one of the living room walls, which is an outer wall. Judging by the burn marks on the floor, it seems the sofa where the previous owner sat day in and day out smoking stood along this wall. Are these nicotine and tar stains? If so, will a primer be enough, or will I have to replace these drywall panels? Can drywall panels come in such a yellowish color? Or are there other reasons that could cause the panel to look like this? When I scraped the wallpaper, my hands got all brown from it. I've deliberately taken the picture with the adjacent drywall panel so you can compare it to how this and all other panels in the house have looked.
If there aren't too many layers, I would have switched. Nicotine clings strongly and sometimes it takes many coats of sealer before it is tight. Nafabased sealer works well, however, it's hard to find.
The paper on plaster also turns yellow if it's untreated, but if a heavy smoker has been there then...
It's unfortunate if it's no longer possible to get real paint.
Has, for example, Norway also phased out oil-based (without water dilution) paint?
I plan to prime with oil-based paint, Beckers Non Drop, which should be an alkyd paint, not water-based as I understand it, then paint over with a color paint, we've chosen Lady Pure Color Supermatt. So far, there's one board that looks like this. Is it complicated to replace drywall? Can a beginner handle it? What might it cost to buy a board?
We had an old ceiling in our summer house that couldn't be painted white with regular ceiling paint, and we visited the paint store to buy blocking paint.
- Don't you have a white spirit-based primer?
Well, I did have a can of Rusta's outdoor primer! Rolled on a layer of that and then applied the ceiling paint again. Now it turned white as it should without the blocking paint, which was really expensive.
In terms of color, we have already decided what to use, and the blocking paint is a really cheap paint 1098 SEK for 10 liters. What I'm wondering is partly if this is nicotine or if anyone has seen this kind of discoloration due to something else? And if blocking paint is enough or if we should rather replace the gypsum board, and whether a beginner can manage to replace gypsum boards and what it might possibly cost.
In my case (which was heavily smoked), it was enough to tear down the wallpaper, sand the wall, then roll it twice with a primer.
It stayed sealed for as long as I lived in the house.
In hindsight, I should have replaced the drywall. Time-wise, it would have been quicker, and one could possibly have added insulation to certain walls as well, which would have been good.
In my case (which was properly smoked in), it was enough to tear down the wallpaper, sand the wall, then roll twice with a sealant.
It stayed sealed as long as I lived in the house.
In hindsight, I should have replaced the drywall. Time-wise, it would have been quicker, and one could possibly have added insulation to certain walls as well, which would have been good.
Similar to your wall mine? The sad thing is that the previous owner lived here for only a year, so he must have smoked like hell...
Hard to say based on those pictures.
When I removed 3 layers of wallpaper, most of the "tjärade" was gone, but the smell remained. Painting fixed it.
Don't forget to apply barrier paint to the ceiling and possibly the floor, and seal the joints between the wall and ceiling.
Okay, because this is the first record that is so bad. All the others have been really nice and, as you say, most of it was in the wallpaper in the bedroom, which hasn't had wallpaper for about 2 weeks, the smell is almost completely gone. The ceiling definitely needs to be painted with a barrier because when you use the wallpaper steamer, the drips from the ceiling are completely poop-brown...
We're not doing anything about the floors though.
I have now exposed the board next to the nicotine-impregnated one and it is a tiny bit slightly yellow, so it's just this one board that's in such poor condition. I am therefore considering replacing it. How do I do it? Is it just a matter of unscrewing all the screws and lifting it off the wall?
What about thickness and such, do these boards come in different dimensions or is it standard?
Most of the plasterboards I've encountered have been 120*240 cm in size and 13 mm thick, but there are other dimensions, like 90 in width, and old boards can be 12 mm (?).
Unscrewing it is easier if you can access all the screws, as it will remain in one piece... there's no floor or ceiling moldings in the way?
The screws I see are the row that sits in the middle of the board in a long line, I've removed the floor molding and there is a screw in each corner at the bottom. The ceiling molding is still in place so the question is if two screws are also screwed there, otherwise I'll have to take down that piece of ceiling molding since it's just one board.
These boards are from 1991
Here's a good video on plasterboarding. If there is currently a 1200mm wide board in place, you can screw on a new one without needing to cut anything other than the short side (unless the length also needs adjusting). For example, byggmax charges 82 kronor for a board. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcPRfKic-Js&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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