ᐅ Wallpaper, Primer, Textured Coating – What Are Your Experiences?

Hello,

we plan to start in two weeks and finish our new build with wallpaper and paint. However, I still have a few questions based on your experiences. To make it easier, here are some basic details:

• Ground floor (on substructure over concrete ceiling) and upper floor (on substructure over roof frame): all ceilings are drywall, filled and smoothed by the construction company
• Living area 230 sqm (2,475 sq ft), so quite a few rooms
• Bathrooms have cement plaster, the rest is gypsum plaster, quality level 2
• Time available: 6 weeks full-time holiday

• What is the best way to finish the ceilings: easiest might be to just paint (visible cracks may appear) or use ceiling wallpaper for a "nice ceiling," but this requires primer (as the ceilings were sanded) and white base coat, or wallpaper the ceiling and then paint
• Bathrooms above the tiles (edge at 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)) will have a textured paint applied up to 80 cm (31.5 inches) below the ceiling (e.g., a plaster-like paint such as Easy Putz from Knauf), and the pantry will be fully painted the same way
• Stairwell area with Meistervlies Protect (impact and scratch resistant fleece) without painting
• All other walls will be covered with non-woven (fleece) wallpaper

My questions relate, for example, to priming: is it worth buying a paint sprayer to speed up the work, or how to prime generally—only with primer or also a white base coat everywhere before applying wallpaper? Any experience with Meistervlies? Tips for the ceiling? Or does anyone have another idea or solution?

Thank you very much—I’m looking forward to your input.

Hello,
Respect, that’s quite an undertaking. Are you doing it alone or are there two or three of you?
I have 175m² (1,884 square feet) of living space, and 2-3 painters took a total of 2.5 weeks for textured plaster, fleece wallpaper, and woodchip wallpaper (working 6 days a week).
Q2 is generally not suitable for fleece wallpaper, so you might have to accept some unevenness. The painter applied Q3 level finish on walls and ceilings with fleece wallpaper in my case. Concrete ceilings were finished to Q3 level and only painted – looks great. However, gypsum plasterboard walls and sloped ceilings were finished with fleece wallpaper. I only had primer everywhere, no white undercoat.
Good luck!

Well, I specifically planned the vacation period to be six weeks, and all my overtime hours need to be used up at some point.

We also considered using more textured plaster, but here one painter says one thing and another says something different. However, they all agree that it’s not ideal for walls because cracks can develop, especially in new buildings. On ceilings, it tends to drip too much, and according to two painters, the cracking issue is present there as well. A major disadvantage is, of course, that you can’t just wallpaper over it “later.” Additionally, the rough surface was noted as a problem when bumping into it—bad for the sensitive skin on your hands. So, it’s not that simple...