In my kitchen, tucked away out of sight at the side of the washing machine, there is a 3ft by 2ft patch of bare brick, no plaster.
Bruce
Masonry paint would be your best bet. (a 75p sample pot ought to just about cover it).
Cover it with a bit of plasterboard
Sorry, Dave. Too expensive. And too time-consuming. It's taken me a week to steam the painted wallpaper off the kitchen walls. I'm in the statte of mind where I'm fed up with all the mess and want to start redecorating straight away!
Bruce
Try plaster. Even the dodgiest amateur plastering would look better than sticking wallpaper onto brick!
Buy a bag of one coat for 5 quid and a trowel and give it a go. You can't make it worse. Even my pathetic plastering skills could manage a patch that size, especially in a less visible location.
Christian.
You have toi be kidding right? Nothing is cheaper thanplasterboard.
Don't even biother to nail it up - use one of thoe nailles glues things.
Thenget a tube of decorators caulk and use it to tidy up the edges, and then just paint the lot.
ha ha
Sure. It'll look like s*1t of course, much worse than bare brick, as will all the options mentiond so far except plastering or PBing it.
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