Hi all,
I am currently having my kitchen renovated in my house which was built in the early 50's, currently focusing on the walls and they were a wallpapered top half with plasterboard pressed into the shape of tiles on the lower half. I have removed the wallpaper from the top half of the walls and found that the plasterboard under it seems to have had some sort of skim coat in the past as it is not a chalky white surface but more of a hard smooth-ish surface which made removal of the wallpaper with a scrapper very easy as was hard to damage the walls with it. When it came to the lower plaster board moulded into tile my best bet was to remove the lower half of the wall and secure new gib.
I now have a plasterer in plastering all my joins and then will skim coat the top half of the walls to bring them to a smoother finish to (hopefully) match the gib so when its finally painted the top half of the walls will not look a bit rougher than the bottom half.
From my limited knowledge of painting most people go for a pigmented sealer after removing the wall paper and then (i think) two top coats of wall paint above that, but my plasterer highly recommends a product by dulux called "1 Step Prep", its a water based undercoat and then two coats of wall paint of my colour of choice.
Although I do not doubt his advice I would like to seek the opinion of other pro's in how I should go about painting my kitchen walls with all I have written above in mind. Is this "1 Step Prep" the way to go or should I be using and oil based Pigmented Sealer? or possibly even something else?
Thanks!