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Hi everyone.
I am getting my old place done up at the moment. The only problem is that the walls in the living room and the corridor are horrible. About 10 years ago, we had then lined with lining paper, and then painted over the top.
This year, in my infinite DIY wisdom, I tried to paint over them, but unfortunatley, the two coats of white+topcoat must have soaked into the paper, and its all started to bubble, and look horrible at the edges. Because the paper is old it isnt flexible anymore, so you cant even get rid of the bubbles, and lifting edges.
I am having the bathroom redone next week, and the people doing that have offered to skim over the walls with plaster, but they want to skim over the horrible lining paper - he said something about putting down some unibond, and then skimming over.
This sounds very wrong to me . Anyone else in the trade/know who can advise ? They want £500 to do this to the living room ( smallish ), and the hallway ( again, smallish). Is this a good price ? Do you think its worth paying someone to come in and strip off all the lining paper, and then just paint on the bare wall ?
R
Mehul
I am getting my old place done up at the moment. The only problem is that the walls in the living room and the corridor are horrible. About 10 years ago, we had then lined with lining paper, and then painted over the top.
This year, in my infinite DIY wisdom, I tried to paint over them, but unfortunatley, the two coats of white+topcoat must have soaked into the paper, and its all started to bubble, and look horrible at the edges. Because the paper is old it isnt flexible anymore, so you cant even get rid of the bubbles, and lifting edges.
I am having the bathroom redone next week, and the people doing that have offered to skim over the walls with plaster, but they want to skim over the horrible lining paper - he said something about putting down some unibond, and then skimming over.
This sounds very wrong to me . Anyone else in the trade/know who can advise ? They want £500 to do this to the living room ( smallish ), and the hallway ( again, smallish). Is this a good price ? Do you think its worth paying someone to come in and strip off all the lining paper, and then just paint on the bare wall ?
R
Mehul