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PostPosted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 17:10 
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I now have a pile of 100+ reclaimed bricks (Pre-war common, brick fans) to clean up over the coming weekends.

Are you going to build a fake brick wall?

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I’d just like to say, at this juncture, that wallpaper stripping can get tae feck.

Yep. What's the best way of getting the wall smooth so I don't have to repaper over the top? I'd rather just paint but it's all a bit ragged.

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I’d just like to say, at this juncture, that wallpaper stripping can get tae feck.

Yep. What's the best way of getting the wall smooth so I don't have to repaper over the top? I'd rather just paint but it's all a bit ragged.

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I’d just like to say, at this juncture, that wallpaper stripping can get tae feck.

Yep. What's the best way of getting the wall smooth so I don't have to repaper over the top? I'd rather just paint but it's all a bit ragged.

Plaster

We've just had the bottom half replastered, I'm not getting the top half done too. I just need to get the rest of the lining paper off. It's very stubborn.

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Score the paper carefully, soak with soapy water, let it dry, repeat, repeat, keep repeating until it comes off with a scraper.

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With all the money I have

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Score the paper carefully, soak with soapy water, let it dry, repeat, repeat, keep repeating until it comes off with a scraper.

I'll try this, thanks!

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If there's lining paper up, it's likely that someone decided that the wall underneath isn't in great nick and needed lining. Get the lining paper off and you'll be in the same situation, either needing to plaster or put up more lining paper.

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If there's lining paper up, it's likely that someone decided that the wall underneath isn't in great nick and needed lining. Get the lining paper off and you'll be in the same situation, either needing to plaster or put up more lining paper.

The problem is on one wall some of the lining has already come off so it all needs to come off. On the others it's fine so I'll leave it.

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If there's lining paper up, it's likely that someone decided that the wall underneath isn't in great nick and needed lining. Get the lining paper off and you'll be in the same situation, either needing to plaster or put up more lining paper.

The problem is on one wall some of the lining has already come off so it all needs to come off. On the others it's fine so I'll leave it.


Oh sure - I just mean that there's limited point taking it off carefully because the wall underneath is probably a shitshow.

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Yep, my walls were like this and I really went to town with a sander on them but when it was all said and done, you could still see uneven bits.

Lining paper is the best bet I reckon.


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I’d just like to say, at this juncture, that wallpaper stripping can get tae feck.

Yep. What's the best way of getting the wall smooth so I don't have to repaper over the top? I'd rather just paint but it's all a bit ragged.


I prefer to think ‘rustic’ rather than ‘ragged.’

My son moved back home after splitting with his wife a couple of years ago and is ensconced in the small bed room. He didn’t have a huge amount of stuff to bring, but he did have a couple of hundred DVDs. After he’d been here a while, he put up two shelves that ran the full length of the room, but didn’t consult me about it. When I saw what he’d done I had my doubts about the shelves staying up; the brackets he used were too small and too few, and the shelves were bellying between them brackets.

Sure enough, one night the bottom one fell down and showered him in DVDs. I then saw that the screws he’d used were wayyyy too short. I really thought he knew better, as he’s done a lot of DIY, but his head was all over the place when he installed them, so I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. He attempted to fix it, but it came down again a few weeks later, and the top one then came down too.

He’s away on holiday for a couple of weeks so Mrs. W said ‘we’ should sort out the wall, not least because there are a couple of patches of mold that needed investigating, although I was pretty sure they were cause by condensation rather than anything more serious, hence the paper stripping today, as I am also off work for a few days.

So, the paper’s off, the rawl plugs are out and all of the holes are filled, except one that was the root of the initial failure and can’t be filled in one session and I’ve run out of filler anyway. There was no mold under the paper, so I think I was right about the condensation.

The wall IS a bit rustic, but as it’s only the small bedroom I’m not going to paper the wall, just paint it.

Decorating is one thing for which I don’t begrudge paying, as I pretty much hate every minute I spend on it, BUT I also dislike having tradesmen in the house, so I bit the bullet and got on with it. He can always paint a Duckula mural on it, like he did in the hall of his own house when he first moved in. It was jolly good really, if you like that sort of thing.


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I’d just like to say, at this juncture, that wallpaper stripping can get tae feck.

Yep. What's the best way of getting the wall smooth so I don't have to repaper over the top? I'd rather just paint but it's all a bit ragged.


.............It was jolly good really, if you like that sort of thing.


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Grim... wrote:
Score the paper carefully, soak with soapy water, let it dry, repeat, repeat, keep repeating until it comes off with a scraper.

:this: is what I did, but I still didn’t enjoy it.


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Or get a wallpaper steamer. They cost about £35

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Oh yeah, a wallpaper steamer. I borrowed one off a neighbour when I moved in about 10 years ago.

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Oh yeah, a wallpaper steamer. I borrowed one off a neighbour when I moved in about 10 years ago.

I've still got it.

Yup, I generally throw them out after use, or give them away, as I know I won’t use it again for a decade. I think I might actually have one at the moment.

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Oh yeah, a wallpaper steamer. I borrowed one off a neighbour when I moved in about 10 years ago.

I've still got it.

Yup, I generally throw them out after use, or give them away, as I know I won’t use it again for a decade. I think I might actually have one at the moment.

Get the kettle on

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Oh yeah, a wallpaper steamer. I borrowed one off a neighbour when I moved in about 10 years ago.

I've still got it.


Don't they have a tendency to basically dissolve old plaster?

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Oh yeah, a wallpaper steamer. I borrowed one off a neighbour when I moved in about 10 years ago.

I've still got it.


Don't they have a tendency to basically dissolve old plaster?


I imagine it would if you held the steam on for ages but I had no problems with it. It definitely saved a lot of time.

It was also useful for removing old tile adhesive when I took the tiles off in my kitchen.


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We finally have both a usable living room and dining room! Testing out the wood-burning stove, currently.


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Looking good. Think we’ll be getting log burner when we sort out the back room.

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It feels nice to start putting things in place doesn't it? :)

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This just makes me want to move already. Hurry up solicitors!

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Tonight, I wall mounted the old telly in the spare room. Cabling trunking pending, natch.


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Jesus, are you eleven feet tall?

Not sure I follow. Are you saying the TV is too high? It needed to be out of the way. This is not going to be heavily used


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That’s a great height for watching TV in bed, if that’s what it is for.

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That’s a great height for watching TV in bed, if that’s what it is for.

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It's going to look fab. :)

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Supposed to get the work done by end of month but there's a fair chance that's not happening if I'm honest, I'm getting more work in the shop and that's soaking up most of my time.


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Whoa! That's really coming on now. :)

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Yup, extend working day to 13 hrs = better progress! Enforced rest day today though as looking after small wiggly human tonight while Mrs w at knitting club.


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Yup, extend working day to 13 hrs = better progress! Enforced rest day today though as looking after small wiggly human tonight while Mrs w at knitting club.

Mrs W sounds awesome :)

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