It was a simple condo repaint job. Patch the holes from picture hangers, remove the wall paper and repaint the two bathrooms. 2 Bed, 2 bath, no real oddball features until I started removing the wall paper in the first bath. I pulled the medicine cabinet and was greeted with this. Particle board.
I thought that this was an anomaly until I went around the room. The entire bathroom is sheathed in particle board. Stapled to the studs, a smear of compound to cover the staple holes and wallpapered over. No primer, no sealer, just particle board and wallpaper. The first bath was relatively easy to strip as they used a fabric type wallpaper that came off easy.
The detailing behind the wallpaper at the corners was very good however. The are a couple hundred condo units in this development so the builder got it down to a science.
The second bath was a different animal having a paper wallpaper. Here I stripped off the face and then softened and scrapped the paper back off with water. About 4 hours of mess.
Skim coat, Primer, and Paint. Particle board walls? Another entry in the Weird Construction Techniques category, for sure.
Hecka weird. I’ve never heard of anyone doing that before.
Weird. Just weird.
Yikes! Isn’t that a fire hazard? Not to mention the environmental issues.
Maybe it makes the room quieter?
Didn’t the moisture from the bathroom deteriorate the particle board? It just goes to show you that you can’t take anything for granted! If anyone can fix it….YOU can!