Can You Paint Over Vinyl Wallpaper Paper

I have painted over wall paper many many times.

Can you paint over vinyl wallpaper paper.

Types of vinyl papers. There are two kinds. The standard vinyl paper is manufactured without any consideration of its painting later on and as such very difficult to paint the slick surface cannot get bonded properly when applying glue and bubbles may also appear on the painted surface. You may be told a lot that you shouldn t or can t but i have done it many times.

The when dry just emulsion the walls in your colour. Advertisement the best method is to remove the wallpaper repair and prepare the walls and then apply paint according to the national guild of professional paperhangers. You can use water based paint on top of oil based primer. They actually make paint with a special primer just for going over existing wall paper.

I never used enamel paint over it but i have used high gloss and semi gloss and even flat paint over it. 1 standard 2 paintable. Scoring the paper will break the surface tension. If you do not properly prepare and prime the seams and edges of the wallpaper.

Paper or vinyl coated wallpapers can be painted but preparation and priming is very important he adds. If it is necessary to paint over vinyl wallpaper certain preparation techniques must be utilized for proper results. In fact paint on top of wallpaper will make it. Leave the vinyl paper on give it a light rub down apply diluted pva all over the wall paper it will bubble up but will go back.

One if you want to take the paper down eventually it s best to just bite the bullet and do that now. But if you need a quick fix you can actually get good results by painting over wallpaper. You do not need to score every inch of the surface. Instead of painting over the wallpaper i would remove it and paint properly prepared and primed walls then you won t have to use oil.

You need a razor edged roller to roll over the paper. You can do this with a commercially available product such as paper tiger or you can improvise and use a ravioli cutter or similar tool.