Polycell smoothover - pile of kak

handyman.

bnq has it as well

vivaladiva

I had a bad tine with smoothover too. I wondered about mixing normal polyfiller in with some cheap white emulsion (where the walls arn't too bad) and roller-ing it on? I bet that mix isn't too far from smoothover!
Anyone tried it?

DuncanMiller

hmm - i just bought some of this to try and "smooth over" two walls in my bedroom before repainting. Would i be better off taking it back and not wasting my time?

how much do you think a plasterer would charge to skim two walls?

owls

depends how big your walls are?
prob charge for a day plus materials 160 ish.

nilz_2

Am greatfull for these postings. I had a look at this in Focus the other day and nearly picked up a tub... Glad I did not now. I just started stripping the wall paper for what's going to be a nursery for our first born due in Feb. The walls are OK but not great. I am currently contemplating either Lining paper for the walls or perhaps getting them skimmed.

Interestingly our neigbour is having an extension and has a plasterer over. He has quoted me the following for a small box room:

4 walls £150 labour + £30 materials = £180
Ceiling £100 labour + £20 materials = £120

So the total cost for the room would be £300. Does this sound reasonable ? This is a quote for Greater London - Ruislip.....

softuk

Having had some experience of this, I wouldn't heitate, get a plasterer! We bought a house that hard the most hideous artex ceilings and hired a plasterer at £150.00 per day. It was well worth it. He was quick. clean and did a great job. In addition, he skimmed some walls in the kitchen where we had ripped out the old units. Agree a daily rate, and get everything ready for him so that he's not hanging around wasting time.
A tip he gave us, for filling cracks, buy a bag of artex and mix and use a little at a time. Its much cheaper than ordinary filler, and sands down to a completely flat finish.

Be_Happy

I was looking at wallpaper recently and came across an embossed paper that said it was specifically to put on top of woodchip. You won't get a smooth surface but you will loose the woodchip effect and it can be emulsioned any colour you like. Think it was in Homebase.

benjus

tomstickland wrote:

Messy this, but I recommend buying a £15 sander from Wickes and a large container of "plaster skim" for around £5. That's ready mixed finishing plaster in a tub. Also buy a plastering trowel.
Whack the skim onto the ceiling any old how. Let it set. Then sand it as smooth as you can.
Repeat a number of times, filling in the low patches each time.

Makes hell of a mess but you can get a smooth ceiling this way.

Other option is to rip the whole lot down, nail up some plasterboard and pay a plasterer to skim it for you.

I used Wickes plaster skim to cover a textured ceiling in my bathroom. It's much cheaper than smoothover, and the results aren't bad at all. Not professional plasterer standard but pretty good. Especially as it's a ceiling and painted white, you wouldn't notice any imperfections unless you were looking closely.

owls

sounds around bang on the money,he should get 4 walls done in a day, and materials is spot on, a bag of plaster costing around 6 quid.

prettypennies

I ending up going with the PVC cladding in the end. The materials along with paying a guy to put it up for us cost £100 and was finished in a few hours. Job's a good un!!