How To Hide Mobile Home Wall Strips

Sand the surface of the vinyl either by hand or with a power sander using medium grit paper.

How to hide mobile home wall strips. Green acre homestead 37692 views. Eliminating the seams in mobile home walls makes the rooms look larger and more finished. How to remove and mud over wall strips budget mobile home remodel 24 duration. Do this with all of the strips in the room.

You can now bring in your compound or spackle and mix it. You will want. I hate those strips. So follow these steps first to make the process much easier.

Plus moving a house creates all kinds of problems so this also helps to eliminate cracking of dry wall compound in said joints. Eliminate wall seams with a plaster compound. Mix only as much compound as you can use in roughly 30min. Remove all wall strips on a wall use drywall compound and wall repair tape to hide the seams.

Pull the strip which is stapled down away from the wall and discard it. Hope this helps someone. Paint the vinyl walls with an oil based highly bondable primer paint. Here are the steps.

Spread your plastic sheet below the area you intend to work. Painting and faux finishing our bedroom video 1 how to faux. Mobile homes are made with pre wallpapered dry wall then matching strips are made to hide the gaps because theyre made as quickly and cheaply as possible. Slide a flat head screwdriver under the edge of the wall strip and pull outward using the screwdriver as a pry bar.

And i know that tons of others do. This roughs up the walls so the primer will. Wear a protective mask if you you have a dust allergy. To give your mobile home a more homey more up to date look i will show you how i taped and floated the vinyl covered walls after pulling strips off the wall.

Ventilate the area well when sanding joint compoundit produces lots of dust. How to mud mobile home walls after you remove the strips.