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Subject: Re: Removing paneling on walls
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:09:04 -0800 (PST)
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On Nov 28, 10:31 am, "INSPECTOR via HomeKB.com"  wrote:
> I have wood paneling on my living room walls that I want to remove and
> restored to plain white walls.  The paneling is glued to sheet rock.  My
> question is, can the glue be removed easily without too much expense?  Also,
> the sheet rock was never painted or treated as far as I can tell by removing
> one panel.  What can I do to reduce the cost prior to hiring a sheet rock guy
> and also, do I need to texture the walls or will the paint do that?  I need
> the sheet rock guy because I am not sure if the seems are taped and I cannot
> do that kind of work.
> Thanks.
>
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Typically, paint will NOT hide any defects.  It tends to make them
more visible.
A good texture job will cover a host of otherwise visible defects (I
believe that's why builders do that these days...).

After you get the paneling off with whatever others suggest, you might
get a wide wall trowel and put up lots of spackling (or whatever they
call the stuff these days that you patch over the seams with) to
smooth things out before the texturing.