Title: hi, how do you remove emulsion paint from a plastered wall? | Yahoo Answers
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hi, how do you remove emulsion paint from a plastered wall?
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Content: have removed the old wallpaper from the walls and some of the emulsion has come off with it, l now need to remove the rest of the old emulsion down to the plaster because we want to paint the wall and dont want jaggered edges where some of the old paint has stayed on. thanks
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Update: have tried sanding before till its really smooth but it still leaves jaggered edges, have thought about using a steamer but not sure if this would 'blow' the plaster
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Tinker
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The steamer will blow the plaster....
Use a fine grained sandpaper and "feather" the edges out where they are showing...
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Its probably been painted with a vinyl type emulsion over the new plaster, this doesnt adhere very well to new plaster and also doesn't allow the wall to ''breathe''. New plaster should be initially coated with a covermatt type of paint. The only thing you can do now is to keep shelling off the loose areas, sand back to a sound surface, either prime bare patches with a plaster primer or a Bulls eye primer and recoat, unfortunately you will then have different levels where the paint film is missing, these can be flushed up with a fine surface filler or Polycell smooth or similar before sanding and repainting. If surface ios still very bad the next thing would be to apply one thin coat of pva sealer/adhesive and hang wallpaper or crossline walls with a quality lining paper prior to painting
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How To Remove Emulsion Paint
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