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I want to tape and texture my older, manufactured home. It has the prepapered wallboard. I have had the inside walls drywalled. But the outside walls are 1/2" drywalled and prepapered. Do I need to redrywall over this or will the texture stay on the wallpapered board?

Thank you,

Kevin

Kevin,

We did the same thing we our home. No need to redrywall if you prime the walls. We primed with Kilz -- which is one of the best around.

Good luck!

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Me and my husband who is a drywall finisher rip off the wall paper that is on the drywall on the excisting wall board and scim coated and taped where the strips were and that rolled mud and textured with a texturing brush it turned out really nice. I hate the fact that the wall baord that they put in the manufactured home these day you can not paint over them, so to save money do what we did.



Good Luck

This isn't really a reply but I have been trying to find information on doing the walls in my mobile home as well. It is a 1993 with the wallpapered board walls.....Will that Kilz work for any year, make or model? I am a single mother so my budget is limited.

Does anybody know if it is possible to tape where the boards are covering the joints in the wall. We would like to remove the boards and tape the joints. We have Vinal cover sheetrock.