Drywall problem

Hello, my bathroom used to be covered in wallpaper until I managed to get it off, however, in the process I damaged the drywall in numerous places and so I puttied over the damaged areas and thought I sanded it down flush. Well, I then painted over my work, but when I go into the bathroom I can clearly see that I've mounded the puttied areas and it looks pretty bad from certain angles.

I'm thinking about buying a palm sander or sheet pad sander to sand the mounds down, is this a good idea? A palm sander should be able to get through the painted surface easily, right? It's the only thing that comes to my mind at this point, aside from not screwing things up in the first place next time...

thanks in advance.

pete

Post edited by: petereno, at: 2007/02/28 17:11

It sounds like a good solution to me, Peter. Are those bumbs in the wall actually that big that you need it? Sand paper won't do the trick?

Thanks for the reply.

Yeah, the bumps are pretty big, not sure how I didn't catch it. I think the sanding block I was using wasn't wide enough, I think if it had been wider I would've gotten flush with the wall. Before buying that palm sander, I think I'm going to follow your suggestion, only this time I'm going to fix the sandpaper to a nice wide block of wood or something and really go at it firmly.

I'll post back with my results.

Post edited by: petereno, at: 2007/02/28 22:30

Well I forewent sanding by hand because as I was looking for the sandpaper I came across a sheet pad sander that my uncle had given me a few years back. It worked pretty well, but it was tougher than I thought it would be to get through the paint and down to the putty. The paint kept globing up on the sandpaper so I had to keep prying it off. I had about twelve or so mounds and I used up about five sheets of paper. All is well, now. The wall appears to be flat.

Post edited by: petereno, at: 2007/03/01 15:53

Hmmm.. next time (hope there won't be ) you'll probably first remove the paint from the affected areas on the wall

I'm glad for you it turned out all well though in the end