Old unfinished drywall

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The new old house has a garage that was never painted. It was simply dry walled and mudded. I'm not 100% if it was even sanded down yet. One of my plans will be to clean it up and paint it. Obviously I'll have to fix any bad spots and maybe sand all the old stuff as well. Should I put a coat of killz on it first since it's old? Will the type of paint matter much just looking for something to cover. I'll probably hit Lowe's to look for a couple returned gallons of paint so color isn't a big deal.

I honestly cannot believe that people do not take the time to paint the garage. The dry wall mud would drive me crazy.
 
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The new old house has a garage that was never painted. It was simply dry walled and mudded. I'm not 100% if it was even sanded down yet. One of my plans will be to clean it up and paint it. Obviously I'll have to fix any bad spots and maybe sand all the old stuff as well. Should I put a coat of killz on it first since it's old? Will the type of paint matter much just looking for something to cover. I'll probably hit Lowe's to look for a couple returned gallons of paint so color isn't a big deal.

I honestly cannot believe that people do not take the time to paint the garage. The dry wall mud would drive me crazy.
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I would use one or two coats of primer before I painted it.
That drywall is going to suck up a lot of primer/paint.
 
Oil based Kiltz will help with any places oils an chemicals may have gotten on the drywall You can then paint latex (water based paint) over the oil based primer with no issues
 
What you need is PVA Primer first, for bare drywall after mud repairs and sanding.
It likely has just a first coat of mud to satisfy Fire Wall protection. You can start with a finishing type mud right over that with a wide knife. then touch it with a sander you may still need a second coat of mud to bring it around nice enough for paint. if it's for just utility room.
the primer does not need to cover to a uniform color, that's just a waste. You should be able to see thru and see over laps in primer.
Then 2 coats of finish paint.
 
The oil based kilz works well as mentioned above just prepare some good ventalition or prepare for a good paint fume buzz and few less brain cells when done.
 
Does anyone have any recommendations on how to get a wall paper boarder off? These people ou dang fruit boarder up around the master bedroom. They were totally weird.
 
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Does anyone have any recommendations on how to get a wall paper boarder off? These people ou dang fruit boarder up around the master bedroom. They were totally weird.
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Steam and one of those tools that perf the paper. Unless you got lucky and the hung it improperly.
 
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Does anyone have any recommendations on how to get a wall paper boarder off? These people ou dang fruit boarder up around the master bedroom. They were totally weird.
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Hopefully the drywall underneath was primed and sealed, else you’re looking at a patch job. My house in High Point was built around a time when it was common (cheap) to just spray everything with two coats of paint and skip the sealer.
 
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