Wall Paper Removal - Newly Bought House

mazibee

Dear All,

FTB completed on 25-06-2019

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-69913090.html

We plan to remove the internal load bearing wall between the dining and the living so thought to remove the wallpaper from rest of the walls of the dining/living as the wallpaper for both the rooms is different.

Almost all the walls of the house are bumpy , wavy not in a good position, so need re plastering


One builder quoted me for removing wallpaper as follows

Dining Room - £350
Living Room - £350
Main Bedroom - £80 only one wall has wall paper
Second Bedroom £ 0 ( No wall paper)
One small bedroom £300

Hall & Stairs ????? £400 approximately ( No idea as he took the measurements and said will send me the labor for that

So I am shocked as he is asking me for approx £1500 to only remove the wall paper from the whole house. (Plastering and painting job will be on top of it and I have no idea how much they will charge me for those jobs)

Are these look rates OK and reasonable?


Any suggestions / alternatives will be highly appreciated.


Any idea if i leave the wall paper as it is)
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martinthebandit

Why?? Just why are you considering employing a builder to strip wallpaper?

It's a waste of their skills and your money.

tori.k

Alternatively a £5 putty knife, bucket of hot water and sponge and a free weekend should do the job.

Davesnave

First of all, look at You Tube videos and decide whether you want to use a sponge & bucket or a wallpaper steaming machine. Then, having chosen, get on with it.

If you hit a few snags you can go back to the videos or change the method, but you can do no harm and you'll eventually succeed, saving £££.

Home ownership means learning some DIY skills, or constantly shelling out for others to do things which are within the average person's capabilities, especially if they research first and take things steady. Yes, mistakes may be made, but we learn from those too. Stripping paper is a nice, easy, though rather sweaty, introduction.

Mrs_Imp

That's a very tiny kitchen. I'd suggest living with it for a while, as you may decide that the best option is to knock down the kitchen/dining room wall. We have a very similar house, and the kitchen size means that only 1 person can fit in at a time

Doozergirl

The problem with quoting to strip wallpaper is that it's impossible to know how long it will take. Wallpaper can come off in sheets in seconds, or it can take days to successfully remove woodchip!

We wouldn't even quote - we'd give a day rate and ask you to keep your fingers crossed!

It really is a job to do yourselves. You can assess the state of the walls as you go.

Owain_Moneysaver

I would consider knocking through the kitchen-lounge and make a kitchen-diner with french windows to the garden, and move the front room wall back to the new diner to give a larger lounge.

I can see why you want rid of that wallpaper though.

First job may be to put lots of loft insulation in if it hasn't been done already.

TELLIT01

Get yourself one of these https://www.homebase.co.uk/earlex-deluxe-ss77-wallpaper-stripper_p210423 and save yourself nearly £1500 for a couple of days work.
Stripping wallpaper isn't a skilled job, just potentially messy and boring.

ceredigion

Davesnave wrote: »

First of all, look at You Tube videos and decide whether you want to use a sponge & bucket or a wallpaper steaming machine. Then, having chosen, get on with it.

If you hit a few snags you can go back to the videos or change the method, but you can do no harm and you'll eventually succeed, saving £££.

Home ownership means learning some DIY skills, or constantly shelling out for others to do things which are within the average person's capabilities, especially if they research first and take things steady. Yes, mistakes may be made, but we learn from those too. Stripping paper is a nice, easy, though rather sweaty, introduction.

You wouldn't believe the amount of delaminated plaster I have seen due to the overzealous use of steamers.

Doozergirl

ceredigion wrote: »

You wouldn't believe the amount of delaminated plaster I have seen due to the overzealous use of steamers.

I agree. If there's a chance of saving it, water is better.

I find it easier to fill a hippo tub with water and use a paint roller to spread water over the walls. Much faster coverage than a steamer, IMO.

mazibee

Thanks everyone for the replies.

I have reserved these items
https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7104222
https://www.argos.co.uk/product/4139843

Will collect the items tomorrow morning. So our plan is to remove the wall paper from the Dining and Living in first instance.

I have submitted the Building Notice qpplication to our council for internal wall removal, SE will email me the drawings and calculations details which I will submit to the builder for the RSJ.

As FTB we have never done these things DIY stuff before so will be tryng on weekend.
:T:T:T

The kitchen is not very big for us but at the moment we will not be touch the kitchen.


Any ideas on how to remove the wall paper behind the radiators and on the areas near to the wall sockets.