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I have an older home (era 1960) with plaster walls. When the windows were installed my bedroom was wall papered. I have stripped the wall paper but to get it off around the windows I had to cut the caulking. The walls are in need of repair and I have a painter scheduled to come in and repair and skim coat them, as they are textured and it is the only way I know of to hide the repairs.
Should I remove the remaining window caulking? If I do need to remove it, should I recaulk before or after I paint? What is the best type of caulk to use for this application? Thanks so much for your help, I am a novice at these things and really want to do this properly. |
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Ok, well first why do you have to have textured walls if they are smooth? Cause if your painter can't make the walls smooth after his repair well then he should be working in another line of work. Tell him there is a thing called sanding with the use of a sander and some 80 grit sandpaper, and you do this intil it is smooth. then you prime then you fill any low spots, when sanding you only sand it flat don't try and sand out low spots you'll only make holes. after priming you spackle with M&H Ready Patch then sand again, then two finish coats of paint. clean up.
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I'm sorry if I wasn't clear, my problem isn't that the walls are textured. (the painter is going to take care of that for me) My issue is that I had to cut the caulking around the windows to get the wallpaper off. I'm thinking that I am going to have to remove all the caulking and replace it. I guess I'll remove it before the painter comes, but I don't know the proper time to re-caulk them, before or after I paint. I've never caulked around windows before, any advice on type of caulk or tricks of the trade would be much appreciated.
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I've always used paintable latex caulk and as the name applies, you do it first and then paint it. Makes it less noticeable.
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metwo, thanks for the help.
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