wallpaper or paint?

[knight]

My garage has sheetrock walls but there are countless dents where the sheetrock was nailed to the stud. They're unattractive. I'm considering wallpapering over them. Do you think textured wallpaper is a good idea in the garage? Can it stand up to the wide temperature swings and cobwebs?

The alternative is to apply orange peel and paint over it, but that's more expensive and messier

What do you think?

 

[regguy1]

Fabric backed vinyl wallpaper is fairy tough, cleanable and removes easily if you get tired of it.

 

[mmhouse]

Those dents can easily be filled with spackling paste before painting.

 

[jhelrey]

Mud and Sand

 

[mmhouse]

Mud and Sand

Or mud.

 

[knight]

Mud and sand would take a long time (there's are 200+ dents). It's also a very dusty job. You can tell I'm not a fan of drywall work, having done it before...

 

[cowboy73]

So you can see the hammer marks where they drove the nails in? They seams are all taped and mudded? The drywall might have pulled away from the studs leaving a dimple.
I would try shooting some drywall screws above and below one of the dents and see if the drywall moves any. Mudding the dents and sanding is going to make a mess and take awhile but wallpaper is pretty darned expensive. You can keep the mess to a minimum by having the shop vac plugged in and ready and only work on a small area when you're sanding.

 

[Kevin54]

If you just want to smooth the dents out and texture paint, mud the nails dents first. It will look a hundred times better just filling them and smoothing them with a drywall knife. They will be smooth enough for texture paint without sanding. Now seams are a different story. A seam would have to be sanded to look corrct even with texture paint. A small bucket of compound and an hour or less of of work and you would have all the nails done.

 

[bazzateer]

Fabric backed vinyl wallpaper is fairy tough, cleanable and removes easily if you get tired of it.

Exactly!

 

[Zeke]

If you do the wallpaper, make sure you prime the walls beforehand or you'll not have the option of removing the paper down the road.

Wallpaper follows the contour of any wall, so be prepared to see "dents" in your paper.

 

[Milton Shaw]

Hang cabinets to cover them, you know you need the storage anyway. Put up pegboard or slat wall to store stuff on. I don't have much empty wall space in my shop to worry about that under 8 foot off the ground. Some of it's empty because benches are in the way of ladder access to it.

 

[1949 caddyman]

If you dont fill the dents with spackle they will show through or not stick well in future. If you put spackle (dry wall compound) on smoothly there is not much sanding anyway.

 

[Luckaso]

Maybe it's better to do it in Industrial Desiqn? If it's actual for you or someone.

 

[u2slow]

I can definitely mud-only (not sand) and have it look better than dents and exposed nails.

What I like about mud and paint is you can do a bit here, a bit there... as you move your clutter around the shop.

 

[nh_yota]

Cover the walls with FRP.

 

[K'ledgeBldr]

Cover the walls with FRP.

Yeah! Not as cheap as wallpaper- but a whole lot less messy.
And definitely much more durable!

 

[jaysberman]

I have never seen old wall paper that was not stating to pull way from the wall at seems.