Texture over paneling

[Sasqy]

Tape the joints and hand towel the texture
We did my cousins house 10 yrs ago
Still looks perfect

[PYBUCK]

My guy filled panel lines first, then textured over. Painted a dark grey and it worked out great.

Exactly what we did. That was 20 years ago and still looks good

[rferg84]

FIL is remodeling a rent house for his new tenant and brown paneling look is not as modern of a look as the tenant is looking for. So he told her that he would texture it and paint dover white.
I didn't think it was the best idea and would like to hear other ways or options.

I've done it in a rental before too. It in my experience isn't the best option.

Most of the time in houses we've bought there is sheetrock behind it. If they didn't use a ton of glue we've been able to tear down paneling and fix sheetrock easier.

[Russ79]

I brought this up myself sometime back and suggested covering with 1/4" sheetrock and was told your switch plate screws probably won't reach the electrical boxes- the electrical boxes will set too far back into the wall unless you reset all your boxes.

[CabezaBlanca]

I brought this up myself sometime back and suggested covering with 1/4" sheetrock and was told your switch plate screws probably won't reach the electrical boxes- the electrical boxes will set too far back into the wall unless you reset all your boxes.

They sell longer screws for these kinds of things.

[bownut]

I've actually done this on 3 different customers houses. All were very happy with outcome. One off the houses was done about 10 yrs ago. Still looks great.