I've taken a few days off to decorate my daughter's bedroom and i'm out of my depth on day one! We bought this house last year and it's a 1970s build.
Anyway the room i'm talking about is painted but we know that it did have wall paper at one point. Looking closely at the paint you can see that it's very rough in places and even if I sand + paint on top I don't know if it would look respectable.
The most obvious problem is that the tape between the aertex celling and walls has failed and needs to be replaced or covered with coving.
Where there are holes or damage that need filling i'm finding that the paint is flaking off quite badly in places.
In other places where there are hairline cracks i've started to chase them out to fill but found paper strips underneath which are covering the seams between the boards.
At this point i've realised that this room has probably never been plastered and the old wall paper was removed (badly) from the boards and then painted on top and perhaps without properly sealing the boards, and so the paint hasn't adhered properly.
Does that sound likely? This is probably the same genius that stuck the fire alarms up with mastic
I'm thinking:
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Anyway the room i'm talking about is painted but we know that it did have wall paper at one point. Looking closely at the paint you can see that it's very rough in places and even if I sand + paint on top I don't know if it would look respectable.
The most obvious problem is that the tape between the aertex celling and walls has failed and needs to be replaced or covered with coving.
Where there are holes or damage that need filling i'm finding that the paint is flaking off quite badly in places.
In other places where there are hairline cracks i've started to chase them out to fill but found paper strips underneath which are covering the seams between the boards.
At this point i've realised that this room has probably never been plastered and the old wall paper was removed (badly) from the boards and then painted on top and perhaps without properly sealing the boards, and so the paint hasn't adhered properly.
Does that sound likely? This is probably the same genius that stuck the fire alarms up with mastic
I'm thinking:
- continue to remove flaking paint
- remove failed paper around the ceiling
- wash down
- patch up holes etc with filler
- phone a plasterer (not going to be easy to find one at the moment)
- paint
- get coving fitted
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