From: KLS 
Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: Removing paneling on walls
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:12:02 GMT
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On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:16:37 GMT, aemeijers  wrote:

>Go price sheet rock, and figure out how many hours you want to put into 
>this. Personally, before I would even think about scraping X hundred 
>square feet of glue, and then doing a skim coat over, I would rip and 
>replace the rock. If the place was built in last 20-odd years, odds are 
>the panels were put up with zig-zags or 'X's of construction adhesive. 
>You will be ripping great chunks of the surface paper layer, in all 
>odds. Sheetrock is pretty cheap, and unless the room is weird, not that 
>expensive to have professionally hung and mudded. You were going to hire 
>out the mudding anyway. Talk to the guy you planned to hire, and discuss 
>options, and get his price both ways- skimcoat nasty old rock, or apply 
>fresh rock and do a 'new construction' mud job? (I am assuming you are 
>capable of doing the demo, and leaving him clean studs to start with.)

That's one option, a good one, but it'll cost more money than just
painting that paneling, which is what my parents did in their
1971-built family room.  Came out nice, and cheap, too!