Painting help

[squiffy]

Decorating a room, but it's totally covered in hundreds of blue tac spots. Removing the large blobs is easy enough, but there are tons of little bits on all walls. I've used a window scraper but even still little bits are left behind. How the bloody hell can I remove them?

I have a flatbed sander, do I need special paint sanding pads? The red ones seem to clog up (for wood?)

 

[Borris]

Use a ball of blue-tac.

Trust me on this.

 

[squiffy]

The bits are years old though.

 

[Borris]

That shouldn't matter, unless they've dried to form some absurdly hard lumps.

In which case, chisel & replaster.

 

[MCS]

Orbital sander Sorted!

 

[squiffy]

ok just done the radiator so far (had to strip, took ages) painted radiator looks ok now.

Next will be walls basecoat, and final colour. Carpet needs replacing, how much would a 2.5M x 3.5M room cost in carpet and fitting? (Would like someone to do it, tack it down etc)

 

[a1ex2001]

The carpet for a bit that size will be dirt cheap probably get a nice roll end for very little. Fitting for a room that size your probably looking at the minimum charge which is normally about £30. Don't forget to budget for underlay and gripper.

 

[Keylow]

Kill them with fire?

 

[squiffy]

ok got a quote

3.36 x 2.54 £87
underlay £60
45' grips £9
Fitting £35
Total £191

That's with carpet that's a bit cheap.

Another place..
£145 carpet
£53 underlay
Grips £23
Fitting and del £50
£273

 

[singist]

I hope that you used proper radiator paint for the rad'.....

 

[Bill101]

can you soften the old blue tac with some WD40? Try a little on a cloth first in an out of the way area just in case

 

[squiffy]

I hope that you used proper radiator paint for the rad'.....

No I didn't.

Managed to finish the walls and rad off, looks pretty good.