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Please tell me what these are on my wall and how to fix them

Please tell me what these are on my wall and how to fix them


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Old 06-22-18, 01:48 PM
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Please tell me what these are on my wall and how to fix them

I have these wrinkles all over my walls in two of my rooms any insight on what they are?

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Old 06-22-18, 01:53 PM
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Welcome to the forums.

The hosting site you used is not allowed here. Try posting directly to the board.
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Old 06-22-18, 02:29 PM
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Thank you, I think I figured it out
 
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Old 06-22-18, 02:35 PM
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Really hard to see any detail in the pic. Maybe paint blisters?
 
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Old 06-22-18, 02:38 PM
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Are paint blisters hard? Because they’re hard to the touch
 
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How old is your house?
Are the walls plaster or sheetrock?
 
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Built in the 50s so pretty old
 
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Old 06-22-18, 04:15 PM
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I added an enhanced picture. It looks like sheetrock when the paper gets wet.
It almost looks like wallpaper on the walls.
 
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Old 06-22-18, 04:33 PM
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Yep, thats what I was going to say. Someone painted over wallpaper.
 
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Old 06-22-18, 08:33 PM
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I don’t believe there was ever any wallpaper on the walls.
 
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Old 06-23-18, 04:51 AM
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It looks to me like something was drug across the wall scraping it up a little and then it got painted over. Looks like that may have happened long ago and has been painted over multiple times. Or are these raised spots? if so, can you press them down or pop them? Either way filling in the depression or scraping off high spots and then adding a little joint compound or spackling is the fix.

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Could possibly be remnants of adhesive from some type of paneling that was removed prior to painting.
 
 

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