What to do with these walls?

[TMNT]

Just curious, am looking at this prop for an IP, aim is to do it up and refinance/sell

looking to spend $5-$10k DIY for kitchen, bathroom, paint etc, the usualy cosmetic stuff

my question is , what would you do to these walls, they are so hideous,would a coat of white paint be enough??? wouldnt you still have teh lines going up and down which would make the room feel quite yuck?

I dont really want to resheet the walls, as that will be expensive

 

[Jake D]

My bedroom growing up was clad with this stuff. Awesome.

I agree that paint would look dodgy.

would wallpaper be a viable option?

 

[vaughan]

I had this in our IP: it's cheap plywood paneling.

It's probably glued onto the wall, and the wall is probably plasterboard, and the plasterboard paper surface will be torn when the paneling is ripped off. It cannot be repaired, the plasterboard needs replacing.

The wiggly lines on the walls in the second photo are hardened glue. Grey patches are tears in the plasterboard surface. The glue tore the paper when it was scraped off, and a heat gun didn't help (would have been far too much work anyway and the resulting surface would have been terrible). I was heartbroken and felt like putting the panelling back up, but it broke as it was pulled down.

It cost me a bit under $2,000 to replace the walls in this lounge, the kitchen, dining room, and they removed an archway and fixed some holes in walls around the house too. In the end it was money well spent.

Consider just painting it otherwise budget for a plasterer.

 

[TMNT]

that looks great !!

I see.... the only problem is the entire house has it!! yuck!!

so I guess its basically resheeting the whole house,is the only option, not sure how much thats going to cost, but I know for a fact its not easy

$35 (1200mm) sheets from bunnings, id need 12 per room, so that makes it 100 sheets plus labour!!

 

[Propertunity]

Paint it with a good primer to stop any 'bleed' through into top-coats.

Then paint 2 coats of your chosen colour.

The 'lines' will just look a little like tongue& groove boards - so the finished look is not too objectionable (and certainly cheaper than resheeting).

 

[Stangman]

We have painted this type of panelling before. Quite happy with the result too.

But you must use a Undercoat/Sealer first. Just go to a specialist paint shop and tell them what you are doing. They will advise the best Undercoat for the job.

Maybe try one room first and see how you like it. Way too expensive to change all the gyprock through the house.

Stangman.

 

[TMNT]

good suggestions guys

if I were to paint it, what sort of colour would make it less obvious or make it not look tacky

I usually use, antiqute white usa, OR a lgiht to medium grey OR mocha colour, with white skirts

edit: i usually use a standard undercoat for all my paint jobs, hopefully this will be no different

 

[handyandy]

edit: i usually use a standard undercoat for all my paint jobs, hopefully this will be no different

Depends what the undercoat says. If it's just plastic undercoat then I wouldn't suggest using it.

You will notice that the wood paneling has a shine to it which means it has some sort of coating which then means that the undercoat sealer you use must adhere to that type of surface.

The best undercoat sealer to use will be an oil based product as it will definitely not peal.

Once you paint it you don't want it to scratch of like if you were to paint glass.

Cheers

 

[toony]

We painted the walls in the holiday home. See the pictures below. We are happy with it. We did use an undercoat.

 

[JennD]

I think painting would be fine. An IP of ours had similar (lighter colour though) and we had it painted over, with all the divots filled up etc. Looked pretty darn good at the end of it considering the low $$ spend.

Wouldn't recommend wallpaper.

Get a small pot of paint and just do a bit of a wall to get an idea of how it's going to look?

 

[TMNT]

We painted the walls in the holiday home. See the pictures below. We are happy with it. We did use an undercoat.

just had a look at the photos, is it just one room that has these types of walling?

photo number 7 is the only one that I can see the lines?

 

[vaughan]

See the pictures below.

Yes that looks great.

In my IP the paneling was falling off the walls and did not fit every well. It needed to come down.

 

[toony]

just had a look at the photos, is it just one room that has these types of walling?

photo number 7 is the only one that I can see the lines?

It was all the rooms.

 

[C-mac]

I'd recommend painting them as well. It'll save your renovation 'kitty' for the where the real value-adding money should be spent (I.e. kitchen/bathroom).

Walls will look much better in white. Looking at the property type; 'better' may be all you need to achieve, with these walls, not 'best'.

 

[TMNT]

It was all the rooms.

well done, I could barely see the lines, however, could be tricks of teh camera as well

obviously I would like bang for buck, if it looks like a crappy wall with a new coat of paint vs a painted wall that feels like its high quality, then thats all I am intedning to do, and spend the rest of the kitchen etc

 

[knightm]

agree with prop and all the others I have seen these in white and if preped properly with say zinzer undercoat or similar so it doesnt peel - (if it peels it WILL look bad) then they look great.

 

[ket]

Preparation for painting

If you are going to paint it ask at the specialist shop about ESP.
This is a surface prep product you wipe on & off and then paint over. It guarantees to make just about any paint stick just about anything. I have just used it on a garage roller door, guttering and barge boards.

Easy Surface Prep

http://www.floodaustralia.net/products/paint_additives/ESP.php

I am sure it would save a lot of work.

 

[TMNT]

^^^^ got me thinking

what about getting some cornice cement and going around filling up all lines of gaps and then using undercoat, and then walll paint to basically make it look like a new wall?

I could use that final finish stuff, but that would cost like $200 in materials alone, whereas cornice should be done in $50 or so,

not sure how good it would stick though, I can imagine sanding it down to find it all crumpling out.....

anyone tried this?

 

[vaughan]

^^^^ got me thinking

what about getting some cornice cement and going around filling up all lines of gaps and then using undercoat, and then walll paint to basically make it look like a new wall?

I could use that final finish stuff, but that would cost like $200 in materials alone, whereas cornice should be done in $50 or so,

not sure how good it would stick though, I can imagine sanding it down to find it all crumpling out.....

anyone tried this?

It depends on how structurally sound the timber panelling is. It might just buckle and fall off.

Also, don't underestimate the amount of effort required to fill gaps and holes with plaster and make it look good.

 

[DaveM]

what about getting some cornice cement and going around filling up all lines of gaps and then using undercoat, and then walll paint to basically make it look like a new wall?

A timber panelled wall thats painted looks ok. A wall thats been filled everywhere and isnt done perfectly looks like rubbish.