![]() And lastly, we don't know why someone put up the wallboard in the first place, which leaves us concerned about the condition of the wall we might find underneath it. Depending how the wallboard is attached, it may be quite difficult to pry off and result in pieces of wallboard still stuck to the wall, which may be quite hard to get off without disturbing even more lead paint. This is tempting because it removes more cruft from the wall, but it has some downsides: It will certainly result in additional flaking of the lead paint on the wallboard, as the pieces of wallboard separate. We can't really afford this.Ģ) Try to pry off the wallboard so we can see more fully the condition of the wall behind it. Our goal here is a flat paintable surface, and (much more importantly) not lead-poisoning our children.ġ) Hire lead-abatement professionals to strip everything down to the plaster, and then see what we need to do from there. To add additional complexity, all of this is on top of some kind of 1/2in composite wallboard we can only access a very small area of what's behind the wallboard, but it seems to be a plaster wall, also with leaded paint on it. ![]() Unfortunately underneath it is a layer of much older (1970s?) and much uglier wallpaper which comes off only with extensive elbow grease, and immediately under that (we've only removed a small area so far) is a layer of flaking leaded paint (verified both by small-squares flaking pattern and with a home lead test kit). ![]() We removed a layer of thick textured wallpaper on a wall in the dining room of our 1959 split-level it came off very easily in large strips.
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