I have a room with paneling on walls . I want to texture and paint the walls. what do i need to do??
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We have paneling in our basement...yuk...very retro. My husband cleaned it and painted it with Kilz paint. This was 3 years ago and it still looks great...we painted it white and it really brightend up the room. Wal Mart used to carry Kilz in colors. You can have it tinted. Since you cannot put texture on the walls, why not go with a color. It will look great...nothing sticks to paneling...but this paint does.
Good Luck
clean them with a degreser so the paint sticks well.
well, you cant texture the walls, yet ,you need to remove the paneling . first as the mud wont ad-hear to it ,
99% of the time ,there is sheet rock under the paneling .
so you need to tape and bed the sheet rock, with at least two thin coats of ,mud. then spray texture, if you add,some primer to your mud .before you spray, you will find you will use less paint , good luck
putty the grooves then sand the whole thing, then texture paint.
or paint then faux texture buit you still have to putty the grooves and sand first
You cannot texture paint paneling, it will crack with the change in temperature. You can put dry wall over paneling, you may use 1/4 in. the good part is that you don't have to find the studs to screw it in just screw it any where, the paneling will hold it,two important things to know, first buy a dry wall screw bit, this will keep the screws from breaking the dry wall paper and then you will have to pull the light switches and electrical outlet out to be flush with the new dry wall. do this first, because the drywall will hide the damage you do when you pull them. To texture paint all you do is buy some premixed drywall mud and water it down so that you can put it on with a heavy paint roller, spread it as even as you can and then stomp it with what ever design you want, practice with different material, sponges, flat brushes, burlap wrapped over foam works, and when it it almost set up you can use a mud knife to flatten down the points or tips to give it that professional look. Try a test spot to see what is best, if you don't like it then you can use a damp sponge scrubber and a bucket of water to rinse the sponge to remove it,
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