There was a floor-to-ceiling crack in the drywall. I instructed the painter to strip off the wallpaper around where he was going to repair the wall, and to NOT put patching compound on the paper.
He said that he did strip off the paper. Then why, oh why, did he go and extend his patch on top of the wallpaper he did not strip off??!
In the second photo, you see where I cut around his patch, and then stripped the old green paper off the rest of the wall.
Not shown is where I skim-floated over his patch, to cover the ridge from his patched area and the little bit of paper left on the wall.
Sanded smooth and sealed with Gardz, the wall was then ready for the new wallpaper.
Tags: crack, drywall, gardz, repair, smooth, strip, wallpaper
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