ᐅ Painting drywall with or without painter’s fleece

Q2 can also simply be painted over. However, in new buildings, settlement cracks often appear on the walls during the first few years, which are of course immediately visible. But if that doesn’t bother you, you can certainly save quite a bit. Painting directly on the ceilings is relatively unproblematic. We didn’t have a single crack there.

ypg schrieb:
No no.... So: priming is still necessary! Drywall absorbs too much.

I have assumed priming mentally; for me, it naturally belongs to the painting process.

We also painted the plastered walls directly (of course primed beforehand). It looks great, very clean, and you save yourself from wallpapering. If a smooth fleece wallpaper is to be applied, the walls must be prepared well enough anyway to allow priming and painting directly (as long as you can accept minor settlement cracks).

From my experience with our solid wood house, it’s enough to properly fill any gaps, then prime and paint. If a small crack appears somewhere, for example in the corners, I can still seal it with acrylic. This is nowhere near the effort required to cover everything with reinforcement fleece. Using an airless sprayer for priming seems excessive to me. A roller or a ceiling brush is sufficient here; otherwise, you end up taping and covering for longer than you spend painting.

Best regards

P.S. May I ask who you built your solid wood house with?

We had all the walls and ceilings sanded to a Q2 finish. Then everything was primed, followed by the application of smooth fleece wallpaper on all walls and ceilings to prevent cracking.

In the hallways and stairwell, we chose a very fine premium plaster. All ceilings were smoothed and painted white. The premium plaster was painted white twice.

In all living rooms, smooth fleece wallpaper was applied and painted white (with some walls painted in color).

The bathrooms were tiled up to half the wall height (except in the wet areas). Above that, premium plaster was applied, some of which was painted in color.

For anyone interested:
The total cost for everything (excluding own labor) for about 190m² (2,045 sq ft) of living space was approximately €15,000.

I have a question about this: We received a folder with important preliminary information from our general contractor, and it says that we should not plaster the walls during the first year. Supposedly, this is to prevent mold growth because there is still residual moisture in the building that wouldn’t be able to escape otherwise. This is quite problematic for us since, due to our cats, we do not want to use wallpaper and planned to plaster all the walls instead.

What are your experiences or opinions on this?

I don’t understand that. When wallpapering, the walls need to be plastered first. I assume these are stone walls. Plastering is usually done before moving in.