Decided I may get someone in!
Lounge neede the paper stripping and we want it painting.
The bloke who quoted said he would want to use lining paper before painting.(Wallrock). I aksed why and he said that it was to give a good finish - especially after removing paper.
I showed him a couple of rooms where I had papered twice before resorting to emulsion. Could it be that using a steamer on plasterboarded walls is leiable to leave some damage?
I have found that if the walls are plastered with a render which is then in turn skimmed over with real plaster, the heat and steam from a wallpaper stripper makes the skim plaster come off the render.
So you may find you end up having to get a plasterer in to reskim the walls like we had to.
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No Name snipped-for-privacy@spam.co.uk> wrote in news:ytcjH.340796$ snipped-for-privacy@fx12.am:
That is what I fear. The rooms I have stripped by just using soapy water have not been damaged one little bit.
Can you just soak it to soften the paste? I once had a wide spatula with a serrated edge, bit like coarse saw teeth. Scratching the surface layer of emulshioned heavy weight paper allowed brushed on water to penetrate.
Tim Lamb snipped-for-privacy@marfordfarm.demon.co.uk> wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@marfordfarm.demon.co.uk:
That is what I have done in the past. I really didn't want to be arsed to do it myself this time. It seems daft though to pay for someone to wreck my walls and then have to skil them. I feel some unwanted DIY coming my way. I use soapy water usually - it soaks in well.
I've never had to strip wall paper from unskimmed PB, perhaps the plasterboard paper will come off along with the wall paper?
With a pro decorator time is money. A steamy stripper is quicker but does leave more old paste residue on the wall than manual soaking and stripping. Could be quicker and gurantees a good surface to whack on some lining paper rather than cleaning down the wall and waiting for it to dry before painting.
Never had that problem, at least not on sound walls. A steamy stripper with "prickle roller" is far quicker and less effort than manual soaking and scrapping. I'd say things a generally drier as well, but the RH in the room will approach 100% if you don't open the windows.
are you concerned that the proposed solution costs more
or is it that you don't like the finish it will give?
If the plasterboard hasn't been skimmed - like on many cheap modern houses
- good luck getting wallpaper off without damage to the walls.
Son moved into a house which has been badly refurbished some rooms have walls lined with plaster board and wall papered badly. The tried a steam stripper and the paper on the plaster board lifted. A right mess. In the end he took the lot down and did it properly.
I don't want to pay someone to wreck the good skimmed walls that have withstood my DIY effors fo 30 years. Adding lining paper will merely be something that could lift or bubble in the future.
"Dave Plowman (News)" snipped-for-privacy@davenoise.co.uk> wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@davenoise.co.uk:
My walls are skimmed.
you mean one of your three daughters brian ? .....
Cross lining with a decent linen backed lining paper is the ages old way of getting a good job for a painted wall.
Painting direct to plaster may not be successful - salts etc can come through much later.
In which case existing paper should come off easily enough.
Yes, exactly that here on old victorian house. Chucked the steam stripper out and used a garden sprayer with warm water and washing up liquid. Give it a good soak, maybe more than once and the old wallpaper almost falls off. Lining paper avoids having to clean all the old paste off the wall, and gives a good base for painting.
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