cheapest way to have house replastered

Cris1970

Hi,
I am looking for some more words of wisdom.
The house I am purchasing is going to be rewired. Resulting in needing amount of replastering.
I am planning to take the opportunity to have artex ceilings replastered to get rid of the hedgehog effect. Many of the walls also are damaged where shelves are attached.
I am planning to either use the electicians plaster or identify an independent plaster.
My question is many of the walls have wallpaper either chip of patterned which has been years of paint on top.
Would most plasters expect the walls to have been stripped of wallpaper? Would it be more cost effective if I ask an oddjob man to strip rooms for plastering?

ed110220

Cris1970 wrote: »

Hi,
I am looking for some more words of wisdom.
The house I am purchasing is going to be rewired. Resulting in needing amount of replastering.
I am planning to take the opportunity to have artex ceilings replastered to get rid of the hedgehog effect. Many of the walls also are damaged where shelves are attached.
I am planning to either use the electicians plaster or identify an independent plaster.
My question is many of the walls have wallpaper either chip of patterned which has been years of paint on top.
Would most plasters expect the walls to have been stripped of wallpaper? Would it be more cost effective if I ask an oddjob man to strip rooms for plastering?

You'll need to get the wallpaper off first before it's plastered and I don't imagine that's a job many plasterers would do. It's not difficult to do yourself, but does take some time.

nickj_2

this is something you can do with a steamer and get one of these to perforate the paint and paper to make the steam get thru to the paste

Leif

If cheapness matter, you can repair walls yourself as long as they are not too damaged. Small holes and pock marks are easily filled with Easifill, left a day, then sanded. But you must first get rid of all of the wallpaper paste if you intend to paint.

A.Penny.Saved

nickj wrote: »

this is something you can do with a steamer and get one of these to perforate the paint and paper to make the steam get thru to the paste

I ordered the original of that type of device called a Paper Tiger just last week. I have not received the order yet so cannot comment on it any more than that. It cost me just over £11 purchased with a number of other items, however it's not free delivery until you spend around £50, which I got on my order.

As already mentioned, it would be considerably cheaper to DIY the stripping and purchase yourself a wallpaper stripper. They only cost about £20 to £35 and you can use it in future whenever you wish to re-wallpaper.

It might be worth removing the Artex rather than paying the high cost of re-plastering. One tub of X-Tex or Biostrip should remove at least one room of Artex. I purchased some in the same order as the Paper Tiger. Getting a high quality P3 dust mask and disposable overall would be worth doing as a precaution in case there is any traces of asbestos in the Artex.

evoke

It's a really big job to have a house replastered. And a very, very messy job. I wouldn't let the electricians do it as they're not usually skilled in plastering - they may be able t fill the holes they cut to a large extent with bonding.

I would get labourers to help you strip and prepare all the walls. This could take several days to do.

The Artex could be a bit of an issue. I had Artexed ceiling that were skimmed over but you need to scrape the sharp bits away - again, another labour intensive job that I wouldn't pay a plasterer to do.

Just get plasterers in to do the plastering.

So, tradesmen required: electricians, labourers, plasterers.

You may be better off getting a home refurbishment company that has all of the required trades to do the whole job in one go. It can often work out cheaper as they can call in the required trades as and when required.

Leif

If you do decide to remove Artex yourself, these people sell strippers that are more effective and cheaper than the stuff you get in B&Q et al:

http://www.stripperspaintremovers.com/I_want_to_remove.htm

nickj_2

i would think that it would be far easier to skim the artex esp if you are having the walls plastered anyway , it would be quite a major messy job to strip and probably the surface underneath will not be great and still need plastering

Leif

nickj wrote: »

i would think that it would be far easier to skim the artex esp if you are having the walls plastered anyway , it would be quite a major messy job to strip and probably the surface underneath will not be great and still need plastering

That is a good point about the surface underneath being poor, if the artex is original then they wouldn't bother to get it smooth. And it could be full of cracks, as were my ceilings.

lstar337

I saw this Mr Bean sketch once with white paint, might work with plaster. :think:

Mojisola

nickj wrote: »

i would think that it would be far easier to skim the artex esp if you are having the walls plastered anyway , it would be quite a major messy job to strip and probably the surface underneath will not be great and still need plastering

If you're going to skim the artex, make sure it is very firmly fixed to the ceiling. I've heard of someone who was sitting having dinner when the new plaster and artex on the ceiling came down around him. The extra weight of the plaster made the artex come away and the resulting mess was horrible!