Stripped some horrible gold w/ black butterfly wallpaper over the weekend, along with the lining paper, leaving this:
It's largely smooth (ish) and could probably just do with a sand but are there any paints etc that are particularly good as a base for smoothing it out before painting the top coats? Polycell do something called Smoothover but it gets mixed reviews...
Hard to see how smooth that actually is, but you could try sanding blocks to even it out. With fine cracks, you can wet them and then scrape a filler over them.
It feels pretty smooth but it's really difficult to tell. I think I might try doing a coat of plaster primer to bring up the imperfections and decide what to do after that.
Stripped some horrible gold w/ black butterfly wallpaper over the weekend, along with the lining paper, leaving this:
It's largely smooth (ish) and could probably just do with a sand but are there any paints etc that are particularly good as a base for smoothing it out before painting the top coats? Polycell do something called Smoothover but it gets mixed reviews...