"elanamig" wrote in message
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Yes, good point. Will do. Thank you for advice.

EXT wrote:
First you may want to open up a small hole in the wall the ensure that
there
are boards behind the wallpaper and to determine if there is insulation.
If
no insulation you may want to take steps to either open up the wall to
insulate or drill holes in each cavity to blow in insulation or have foam
injected.

If the walls are truly wooden boards with multiple paper/cloth coatings,
then I would drywall over the whole lot. This will cover the holes made
for
insulation. If there is crumbling plaster, particularly plaster
reinforced
with horsehair that is decaying, you may want to strip down to the frame
where insulating and vapor barrier will be an easy installation.

A lot of good discussion in this thread. You might seriously consider
repapering the walls. I believe that would be considerably easier and
cheaper, and there is an almost infinite variety of papers to choose from
including some with very faint patterns.

Don Young