After living with it for years I decided to remove some birch paneling from the wall in my living room. Fearing how it was attached had prevented me from doing it until now. Turned out I has little to fears as only 4 nails per sheet and some weak construction adhesive where used to hold the panels up.
The bigger problem is now I have the paneling off I can see what looks like water stains on the drywall that was behind the paneling. I know where the water came from, we had a leak in out roof 9 years ago and this must have been missed.
Do I have to worry about replacing the drywall or will it be okay to skim coat the wall like I was planning?
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