Survey of wallpapered rooms before painters strip the paper
Example project
- Home
- 1970s two-story house in Cottage Lake with wallpaper in the dining room, the hall and the powder room
- Original request
- Strip the wallpaper and repaint the three rooms
- Testing
- About 9 samples of the paper, the paste and the wall finish under it, taken at loose edges
- Found
- Asbestos in the joint compound under the paper in the dining room and the hall
- Clear
- The wallpaper, the paste and the powder room walls test clean
- Timeline
- One visit by the inspector, then a written report within a few days
- Estimated testing cost
- $700
In this example, the owners of a 1970s house in Cottage Lake plan to strip the wallpaper in the dining room, the hall and the powder room and repaint. Stripping wets and scrapes the wall, and sanding usually follows, so the painters ask for a test of the wall under the paper first.
