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Author:  Zardoz [ Fri Feb 23, 2018 17:10 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
Zardoz wrote:
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?

Almost, it's for my fake brick store.
Author:  myp [ Fri Feb 23, 2018 17:36 ]
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Warhead wrote:
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.
Author:  MaliA [ Fri Feb 23, 2018 17:43 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
Warhead wrote:
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
Author:  myp [ Fri Feb 23, 2018 17:47 ]
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MaliA wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
Warhead wrote:
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.
Author:  Grim... [ Fri Feb 23, 2018 17:58 ]
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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.
Author:  DavPaz [ Fri Feb 23, 2018 18:00 ]
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If you really can't be arsed, pay a pro
Author:  myp [ Fri Feb 23, 2018 18:09 ]
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DavPaz wrote:
If you really can't be arsed, pay a pro

With all the money I have
Author:  myp [ Fri Feb 23, 2018 18:09 ]
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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.

I'll try this, thanks!
Author:  DavPaz [ Fri Feb 23, 2018 18:11 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
DavPaz wrote:
If you really can't be arsed, pay a pro

With all the money I have

Pay a... cheap pro?
Author:  Cras [ Fri Feb 23, 2018 18:11 ]
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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.
Author:  myp [ Fri Feb 23, 2018 18:16 ]
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Cras wrote:
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.
Author:  Cras [ Fri Feb 23, 2018 18:18 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
Cras wrote:
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.
Author:  TheVision [ Fri Feb 23, 2018 18:25 ]
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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.
Author:  Warhead [ Fri Feb 23, 2018 18:34 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
Warhead wrote:
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.
Author:  Warhead [ Fri Feb 23, 2018 18:36 ]
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Warhead wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
Warhead wrote:
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.


WTF am I doing quoting meself?
Author:  Warhead [ Fri Feb 23, 2018 18:40 ]
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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.
Author:  DBSnappa [ Fri Feb 23, 2018 18:51 ]
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Or get a wallpaper steamer. They cost about £35
Author:  TheVision [ Fri Feb 23, 2018 18:53 ]
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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.
Author:  DBSnappa [ Fri Feb 23, 2018 18:55 ]
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TheVision wrote:
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.
Author:  myp [ Fri Feb 23, 2018 18:57 ]
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DBSnappa wrote:
TheVision wrote:
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
Author:  Cras [ Fri Feb 23, 2018 19:08 ]
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TheVision wrote:
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?
Author:  TheVision [ Fri Feb 23, 2018 19:21 ]
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Cras wrote:
TheVision wrote:
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.
Author:  Warhead [ Sat Feb 24, 2018 15:57 ]
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It’s not all bad. Paint pads are the dog’s wossnames.
Author:  myp [ Sat Feb 24, 2018 22:01 ]
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We finally have both a usable living room and dining room! Testing out the wood-burning stove, currently.
Author:  DavPaz [ Sat Feb 24, 2018 22:13 ]
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Looks cozy
Author:  Goddess Jasmine [ Sat Feb 24, 2018 22:34 ]
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I :luv: our wood burner
Author:  Zardoz [ Sun Feb 25, 2018 10:57 ]
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Looking good. Think we’ll be getting log burner when we sort out the back room.
Author:  Goddess Jasmine [ Sun Feb 25, 2018 11:37 ]
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It feels nice to start putting things in place doesn't it? :)
Author:  Jem [ Mon Feb 26, 2018 12:23 ]
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This just makes me want to move already. Hurry up solicitors!
Author:  myp [ Mon Feb 26, 2018 21:16 ]
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It's Krazywookie
Image
Author:  krazywookie [ Mon Feb 26, 2018 21:27 ]
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You'll love them! Come on down!
Author:  DavPaz [ Fri Mar 09, 2018 21:20 ]
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Tonight, I wall mounted the old telly in the spare room. Cabling trunking pending, natch.
Author:  Grim... [ Sat Mar 10, 2018 3:07 ]
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Jesus, are you eleven feet tall?
Author:  DavPaz [ Sat Mar 10, 2018 8:28 ]
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Grim... wrote:
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
Author:  Mimi [ Sat Mar 10, 2018 9:03 ]
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That’s a great height for watching TV in bed, if that’s what it is for.
Author:  DavPaz [ Sat Mar 10, 2018 9:41 ]
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Mimi wrote:
That’s a great height for watching TV in bed, if that’s what it is for.

Sure is.
Author:  Grim... [ Sat Mar 10, 2018 16:56 ]
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Ah, okay.
Author:  krazywookie [ Mon Mar 19, 2018 0:39 ]
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Hmmmmmm, latest picture is...
Author:  Goddess Jasmine [ Mon Mar 19, 2018 7:23 ]
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It's going to look fab. :)

When are you hoping to open?
Author:  DBSnappa [ Mon Mar 19, 2018 8:27 ]
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Looking Good!
Author:  krazywookie [ Mon Mar 19, 2018 9:04 ]
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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.
Author:  krazywookie [ Wed Mar 21, 2018 20:47 ]
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Updateasaurus rex
Author:  Goddess Jasmine [ Wed Mar 21, 2018 20:49 ]
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Whoa! That's really coming on now. :)
Author:  krazywookie [ Wed Mar 21, 2018 20:52 ]
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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.
Author:  Mimi [ Wed Mar 21, 2018 20:54 ]
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krazywookie wrote:
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 :)
Author:  Mimi [ Wed Mar 21, 2018 20:59 ]
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krazywookie wrote:
Updateasaurus rex

This looks awesome, too.
Author:  krazywookie [ Wed Mar 21, 2018 21:14 ]
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Thanks :)
Author:  krazywookie [ Fri Apr 27, 2018 8:09 ]
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Should I leave the window box white or paint the sides red?
Author:  DavPaz [ Fri Apr 27, 2018 8:10 ]
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White
Author:  MaliA [ Fri Apr 27, 2018 8:12 ]
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White
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