Removing Mobile Home Wall Strips
Here is a short demonstration on how to remove the strips.
Removing mobile home wall strips. Mobile home wall strips sometimes referred to as batten strips can make your mobile home look old fashioned or out of date. How to mud mobile home walls after you remove the strips step 1. The first step to making your mobile home walls look like sheetrock is to remove all the strips. Try to wedge the screwdriverknife in between the wall and strip.
If you are looking for an easy way to upgrade or remodel your mobile homes appearance removing these vertical batten strips from your walls might be the answer. Step 2 move your way down the wall strip loosening it wherever it doesnt simply pull away from the wall right to the. Painting and faux finishing our bedroom video 1 how to faux finish mobile home walls duration. I was really excited to do it until someone told me that the walls could shift if not done properly.
Paint the vinyl walls with an oil based highly bondable primer paint. Click the link above for a quick. I hope to use a hopper to give an orange peel texture to. I am planning on using acrylic caulk fiber joint tape and then sealing over that with joint compound and sanding.
Pull the strip which is stapled down away from the wall and discard it. 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. The second step is to tape the joint using sheetrock mud and sheetrock tape. How to remove and mud over wall strips budget mobile home remodel 24 duration.
Use a pair of pliers to pull out the staples that are left in. Do this with all of the strips in the room. This roughs up the. Slide a flat head screwdriver under the edge of the wall strip and pull outward using the screwdriver as a pry bar.
I am about to start removing the strips and retexture a wall in a mobile home that i am about to move in to very soon. Showing you how to remove and mud over the wall strips from our single wide mobile home to give it a finished drywall look and doing final preparations to the walls for paint in our budget mobile. Remove the wall strips step 1 set up the ladder and start at the top. You will want to open doors and.
Step 3 carefully remove the. Hope this helps someone. Sand the surface of the vinyl either by hand or with a power sander using medium grit paper.