OSB as a substrate for wallpaper?

[Ola78]

Sure, if properly installed, it's a good material, OSB+gypsum isn't exactly cheap.

What do you mean by properly installed? The people I've talked to who have lived in houses with chipboard have absolutely not liked it. If it's so good, why don't most house manufacturers use it then, considering you write osb/chipboard+gypsum isn't exactly cheap.

 

[Mikael_L]

May I cut into the thread with a somewhat related question.

I have OSB boards that feel strangely smooth on the surface. I don't know if they are treated with something or if it's just a result of very good press pressure during manufacturing.

Now I'm wondering if I need to do anything special when I glue the OSB to wooden studs?

 

[prototypen]

Mikael, choose an expensive glue, polyurethane adheres to most things.

Protte

 

[Mikael_L]

Ouchh, no preferably not.

But it's just that I'll try gluing a test piece together and check.
I'll do that, and get back to you.

 

[Sunnie]

I wallpapered on an OSB board that extended for the pipes in the kitchen, but first applied easy cover to get a smooth surface and not wallpaper directly on the OSB. It worked excellently, except that I smoothed the easy cover with forearms and hands instead of the scraper that was in the garage and had an itch for a week afterwards...

Hi Krukan, the thread is indeed a bit older but checking if you read this. Have planned renovation wallpaper in a room but encountered an OSB board during demolition. Large parts of the room are chipboard, where it's fine to putty and previous wallpaper sticks well. On top of the OSB board, everything wants to fall down... So I'm afraid the renovation wallpaper will do the same. So I wanted to ask if you primed first or applied the adhesive directly?

 

[Mikael_L]

Ouchh, preferably not.
But it's just that I'll try to glue a test piece together and see.
I'll do that and get back.

Wow, here we have a thread revival deluxe, and I see that I never got back.

Today, I don't even know why I asked the question, nor if I did any test gluing.

But I do know that I put OSB, then plasterboard on at least one wall where I glued the OSB to the studs, that was where the staircase would be installed later, possibly I also did this on a couple of wall stubs that were load-bearing interior walls.

I also remember that I went over with the orbital sander a bit on the OSB to sand off a bit of the wax layer and then glued with regular white glue (common wood glue).

 

[krukan]

Hi Krukan, the thread is slightly older but checking if you read this.
I have planned renovation wallpaper in a room but encountered an OSB board during the removal. Large parts of the room are chipboard, that's fine to spackle and previous wallpaper sticks well. On top of the OSB board, everything wants to fall down... So I'm afraid the renovation wallpaper will do the same. So I wanted to hear if you primed first or went directly with the glue?

Hmm, it was a while ago, I remember "priming" with a little diluted glue that dried before applying the renovation wallpaper. No priming. But it's stayed on well, we painted over the wallpaper a couple of years ago and there were no issues.

 

[Sunnie]

Super great tips @Mikael_L & & @krukan
Did as you both said, sanded and primed with glue and it seems to hold It would have been tedious to start changing the board since it's 2sqm in the whole room that for some reason is OSB