How do I prep old sheetrock for painting?

When I removed the bathroom wallpaper, some of the sheetrock paper peeled off and left loose edges of sheetrock paper. Do I use compound to cover these areas? Do I use primer? Do I peel more off to smooth the area? Help!

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Elastomeric Paint for a Metal Roof?

I have an expensive, defective, stone coated metal roof made by Duraloc, now bankrupt. Allmet took over the company, but does not honor the 50 yr. warranty, now non existent, on the roof. I am left with a problem — mainly cosmetic. The stone is coming off, revealing brown primer

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Deck Colour

House siding is cabin brown with white trim what colour for a deck to complement the house colour?

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Floor Paint

Epoxy floor paint applied and it looks like parts are glossy and parts look flat. The contractor applied the flake chips at the end. What do I do?

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How to cover popcorn ceilings?

We scraped off the popcorn. Filled the imperfections with joint compound and sanded the areas. We added joint compound to the paint in an effort to smooth the rough scraped areas and blend with the smooth areas. The differences are still very obvious. Any suggestions on how to even it

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