Does anyone have any experience of removing or skimming over polyripple-covered walls? We had the stuff all over our hall/stairs/ landing walls and have managed to remove a fair amount of it from one wall (the largest area alongside the stairs thankfully) by scraping off with a sharp scraper, much of it fell off in largish chunks. All other wall surfaces are proving more tricky though.
We have already tried the following:
1) scraping - more like hacking off tiny shards of it, didn't seem an efficient method2) steaming with wallpaper steamer - this melted it slightly and made it into a chewing gum texture which proved almost impossible to actually scrape away - just sort of rolled about on the wall re- sticking itself, none actually came off
3) heat gun (paint stripping gun) - similar to the above only with added fumes4) bought some EcoTex to try to dissolve it off - left for over an hour then tried scraping. The top layers of paint came off but once down to the actual polyripple it again started behaving like chewing gum and took ages just to scrap away a tiny portion. At over =A320 for a pot that might get ride of a few m2 this is going to be an expensive option anyway.
I've asked 2 plasterers if they would skim it and both said they'd have to cover it in pva then skim but the polyripple might lift away from the wall and destroy the plaster on top.
Any ideas? Does sanding work? or can you skim over the top of it using another method?
Thanks.