Here is a PSA
Dear people of the United States of America,
I speak on the behalf of house painters, drywallers and homeowners alike when I call for the ban of wallpaper from this fine nation. Wallpaper is tacky as shit, difficult to install, and you will eventually decide that you no longer like the wallpaper and instead wanted the room fauxed. Now, this is all well and good, because faux is relatively easy and we make more money for it, right? NOT IF THE ROOM IS WALLPAPERED. Its just not worth the money you will invest. Let me break this down for you using a simple example.
Say your house is 25 years and you want the bathroom painted. The problem is, the bathroom is wallpapered. It is now my job, as a house painter, to rip the paper. This sounds much easier than it actually is. Wallpaper cement bonds to drywall after 2 and a half decades, and I end up having to take off most of the drywall's paper just to get the surface clean. This also took a lot longer than estimated and was much more labor-intensive than originally planned, so we, the house painters, had to charge you more. Now we are presented with a dilemma that only rhe great men known as the General Contractor's Preferred Drywallers can fix. They will come in, add an unforseen cost, and retexture your shitty walls that the wallpaper was hanging on. Then, in 5 days' time, the extremely busy painters can finally come back and paint your bathroom.
The painters made more money than expected, the drywallers made money they didn't know they were going to, and the homeowner lost in this (purely hypothetical) situation.
What can be done about this menace? Only one thing will surely stop it; that one thing is to ban the sale of wallpaper in the United States of America. Please write your senators and congressmen urging a resolution to this issue.
Thank you.
I speak on the behalf of house painters, drywallers and homeowners alike when I call for the ban of wallpaper from this fine nation. Wallpaper is tacky as shit, difficult to install, and you will eventually decide that you no longer like the wallpaper and instead wanted the room fauxed. Now, this is all well and good, because faux is relatively easy and we make more money for it, right? NOT IF THE ROOM IS WALLPAPERED. Its just not worth the money you will invest. Let me break this down for you using a simple example.
Say your house is 25 years and you want the bathroom painted. The problem is, the bathroom is wallpapered. It is now my job, as a house painter, to rip the paper. This sounds much easier than it actually is. Wallpaper cement bonds to drywall after 2 and a half decades, and I end up having to take off most of the drywall's paper just to get the surface clean. This also took a lot longer than estimated and was much more labor-intensive than originally planned, so we, the house painters, had to charge you more. Now we are presented with a dilemma that only rhe great men known as the General Contractor's Preferred Drywallers can fix. They will come in, add an unforseen cost, and retexture your shitty walls that the wallpaper was hanging on. Then, in 5 days' time, the extremely busy painters can finally come back and paint your bathroom.
The painters made more money than expected, the drywallers made money they didn't know they were going to, and the homeowner lost in this (purely hypothetical) situation.
What can be done about this menace? Only one thing will surely stop it; that one thing is to ban the sale of wallpaper in the United States of America. Please write your senators and congressmen urging a resolution to this issue.
Thank you.