"dadiOH" wrote in message
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Stormlady wrote:
One wall in the master bedroom of my house has stucco on it, and it's
horribly ugly. I'm just wondering what the best way to get rid of it
is. I know I could just put a fake wall over it, but there's only
about an inch of space right now between the door frame and the wall,
so I don't really want to do that as we'd also like to replace the
doors and get some nicer (probably wider) trim for the doors.

We were thinking that it might be easier to just remove the
stucco/gyproc wall and replace it with new gyproc as opposed to
trying to sand off the existing stucco? Any suggestions? Is that a
reasonable way to tackle it, or would we be better off just sanding
off the stucco?

Stucco is a cement product. It is normally close to 3/4 thick. Is that
what you have? if so (I doubt it) you aren't about to sand it off.

It's probably not stucco, but that's all I've ever heard it referred to
around here. It's an ugly spiky textured wall that I want to go away :-)

Since you are talking about an inside wall, I'm guessing you have a dry
wall that has been textured with drywall mud. That sands easily but it is
likely the paint on it won't. If there is no paint, you can remove it
with a wet sponge as long as it is the kind that dried rather than
setting.


It's been painted, and I have no idea what type it is. We just bought the
house a month ago and right now it's painted kind of a brown color. It
actually looks like a nice color on the regular walls, but on this wall it
looks like a shiny disaster. It actually doesn't look shiny on the other
walls, I guess it's something about this wall and the way it takes the
paint.


You also maybe able to just plaster over it with more drywall mud to
create a smoother surface.

That'll probably still cost us about 1/3 inch of space behind the door,
that's about how far the longest spikes stick out.



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