Removing woodchip wall paper

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I would be very gratful if someone can tell me how would be it cost to have woodchip wall paper removed (and possiblity replastering if needed) from 3 walls and a ceiling and then to paint the whole room. Bedroom room size is 11' 0" x 6' 2".

Thank you.

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any help please?

McKneff

With a bit of time and elbow grease you could take the wood chip off yourself.

Score all the walls with a stanley knife and soak one wall, wait 10 minutes, soak it again. wait 10 minutes
this is where the patience comes in

Then go to it with a steamer or scraper, it may not need plastering, just filling in certain places.

Price for someone else to do it, sorry, I've no idea.

HelenDaveKids

When we took some off years ago, I used a steamer. Really hard work and had some many bits of skin missing of my knuckles!! I found a bucket of water and literally dripping water down, leaving it a minute then scraper also helped.

Good luck.

misgrace

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I would be very gratful if someone can tell me how would be it cost to have woodchip wall paper removed (and possiblity replastering if needed) from 3 walls and a ceiling and then to paint the whole room. Bedroom room size is 11' 0" x 6' 2".

Thank you.

If the woodchip has a silk finish on it, then you would need a steamer,if its matt, then a good soaking like McNeff says.
Buy some cheapo fabric conditioner, its better than fairy liquid, score the paper, add some FC into a bucket of very hot water and soak the paper, just do one wall at a time, soak it 2-3 times, (dont have the heating on) lol, then scrape, you obviously will have to re-soak it, but the FC softens the paper better than fairy, and leaves a lovely smell too.

nickj_2

if you aren't going to re paper, replaster or line the walls be careful using a stanley knife as it will score the plaster , beeter off using somethink like this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stanley-Mini-Orbital-Wallpaper-Scorer/dp/B0001IWE46/ref=sr_1_3?s=diy&ie=UTF8&qid=1307902778&sr=1-3
and then steam it off

diable

Scrape the woodchip bits of first then attack it with a steamer.

vax2002

Buy one of those medium pump spray bottles from a garden centre and soak it the night before a few times with warm water, then make a start in the morning, by soaking again and it usually just drops off.
impatience leads to hard work !

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Thanks for the advice.

I have managed to remove the paper.

There is no damage to the wall or plaster but it does not look smooth.

What shall i do for wall to look smooth before i paint it?

nickj_2

you can either remove the paste by washing with a nylon scourer and then filling any defects with a fine filler and then sand down or if the walls still don't look good you can reline with a decent lining paper

Leif

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Thanks for the advice.

I have managed to remove the paper.

There is no damage to the wall or plaster but it does not look smooth.

What shall i do for wall to look smooth before i paint it?

What do you mean when you say it does not look smooth?

There probably will be wall paper paste residue on the walls, and if you intend to paint the walls, then it must be removed, or it may interact with the paint and the result will be horrible. To remove it, wash the walls with dilute sugar soap (a detergent) which can be bought cheaply in concentrate form. Wall paper residue can make the wall look lumpy and rough if it is thick.

But if the washed wall is still not smooth, and it has small holes, gouges or rough areas, then you need to fill and sand. Easi-fill and tetrion are two widely used fillers. You mix them in water to a toothpaste consistency, then fill. It is best to use a metal scraper, and fill level with the surrounding plaster, the less you need to sand the better. Fill AFTER washing the wall as filler dissolves. Avoid ready mixed fillers such as Polyfilla. They are okay if you have one or two holes, but they are expensive, and harder to sand.

Some roughness in plastered walls can be removed by sanding, but sand too much and you get back to the undercoat plaster which is rough.

I am assuming your walls are plastered, rather than plasterboard. Do not sand plasterboard!!! I do not know how to deal with that stuff as my walls are plaster on breeze block.