Complete renovation of an old house, question about painting work

He means you could resell the steam device there after use with little loss

Or simply buy it there (BuchtKleinanzeigen) and resell it. This works very well with any kind of construction equipment. From your own construction dryers to professional tile cutters/saws to mobile heating devices for underfloor heating – of course, this only makes sense for DIYers.

Haha, ok thank you very much... took a little longer.
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Whether you need to prime again can be easily tested with a water beading test. This way you can see how absorbent a wall is. Normally, just remove the wallpaper and put on a new one. The plaster underneath has already been treated and held the old wallpaper. You don't always have to make everything complicated.

Unless the plaster is 100 years old and falls off the wall as you peel off the wallpaper, then more will be necessary :D. That was partly our experience with our house. From 1921 with original plaster. Then have fun:eek:.

By the way, I have always mixed water with dish soap and brushed it over the wallpaper with the wet wallpaper brush. Let it soak for a few minutes and then scrape off. Sometimes you have to repeat this if a multi-layered wallpaper was not completely soaked or if several layers of wallpaper appear. Always keep a spatula handy for small residues.

I agree with the previous speakers that you will not enjoy looking at the wall that is painted "without pretreatment" naked. At least I have never seen a wall that is ready to be painted after removing the wallpaper. If necessary, priming once + sticking on painting fleece takes a little time, but it is no rocket science and easily doable as a DIY project. Then you have accomplished something and will be satisfied with the final result. If you don't like it in twenty years, painting fleece can be completely removed later without any problems and without a nail roller ;)

By the way, since eBay/classifieds were mentioned here. Depending on the amount you need, you can also buy painting fleece there considerably cheaper than at the hardware store. At least that was the case for me. I needed a larger quantity and despite the shipping costs, I only paid 1/4 of the regular price for high-quality branded goods :) That adds up to a few hundred euros in savings.

What is necessary and what is not always depends on your expectations. In our new build, we also did not choose the usual route of sanding everything super smooth. We have a small child and did not want to sink 20k into painting work if there is a chance that toys will fly against the walls, a Bobby car will crash in, or the walls will become acquainted with crayons.

However, you can also see that we simply wallpapered and painted on Q2. If you look closely under certain lighting conditions, you can see unevenness under the wallpaper. You have to know if that bothers you. We rarely stand in the hallway and look at the wallpaper.

It’s the same in the old building, everything depends on your expectation and on what’s underneath after removing the old wallpaper. I used to mostly just remove old wallpaper in old apartments and wallpaper over it. Nowadays, there are wallpapers called "Vliesfaser," which we used and find pretty nice. They come in different textures. I can no longer see the classic woodchip wallpaper that hangs in every rental apartment, so we chose other patterns. They also come in different thicknesses. Depending on the condition of the wall (how smooth it still is), you can choose more strongly textured wallpapers that forgive more unevenness. Very thin, such painter’s fleece, I would really only wallpaper on very smooth walls. If you have unevenness beneath painter’s fleece, the thin wallpaper above will visibly bulge and visually amplify the effect tenfold. You can imagine it as a small "wallpaper tent" spanning over a plaster crumb. The crumb itself might have been 2mm large, but the wallpaper tent then stretches over 1cm.