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Clean the wall with a product to remove any wall paper paste residue. Sand it with 100 grit and apply a watered down coat of emulsion (mist coat). There are lots of different opinions on the best emulsion brand to use as a mist coat, I would usually use something mid price like Leyland brilliant white emulsion, if you only want to use one type then Dulux Trade Supermatt is a good option. Then apply filler to any of the defects that stand out. I would opt to cover the entire wall with easy fill then sand it back but you can just pick out any problems, feather the filler and paint with an undiluted coat of emulsion. If you plan to use a fancy emulsion as a top coat of colour then start with something that is designed to cover well, a high opacity emulsion like Dulux Trade Supermatt. Denib by sanding between coats and don't lay it on too thick as you'll just end up with a terrible roller pattern.
If I were doing this in my own home I'd use a lining paper, 1100 or 1400 weight.
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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...