Ceiling help

rjm2k1

Alternatively, the joiner may be talking about boarding over the existing ceiling, which will save the effort of stripping them.

Mutton_Geoff

I suggest you don't use a steam machine to remove old paper from the walls either. Score the paper and use plenty of water to soften it, then just pull the whole sheets off the wall. Steam machines are a plasterers friend as they commonly "blow" old plaster off the walls in the hands of inexperienced users requiring whole rooms to be reskimmed.

Lally

Mutton_Geoff wrote: »

I suggest you don't a steam machine to remove old paper from the walls either. Score the paper and use plenty of water to soften it, then just pull the whole sheets off the wall. Steam machines are a plasterers friend as they commonly "blow" old plaster off the walls in the hands of inexperienced users requiring whole rooms to be reskimmed.

too late....

the walls themselves are very very smooth and in good nick, it is just that in some of the rooms awful marks have been left by this idiot and his DIY attempts

rjm2k1

If the walls are sound it sounds like the joiner is suggesting this as a time saving alternative to stripping the paper and filling the holes.

Won't be cheap though, I just had a decent sized room done, walls boarded taped skimmed and artex ceiling skimmed, quotes were £300, £450 and £570. Not sure how much difference it would make if they use tapered boards rather than skimming.