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janedavitt) wrote2012-02-08 01:34 pm
janedavitt) wrote2012-02-08 01:34 pm
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Why did I do it, why?
I saw a wall in a magazine painted the most delectable purple; think a Cadbury's bar. Amazingly, all the family agreed it was stunning and David suggested we use it to paint the only room in the house left the way it was when we bought it nearly 15 years ago, the computer room.
It was their dining room, and had a chandelier but hello, we're not the kind of people who need a dining room.
Or a chandelier...
Anyway, it was also wallpapered, a dark green with a pattern. I had a go at stripping it off with the usual hand tools, failed, and rented a steamer thingummy yesterday, confident that thusly armed, the stuff would be coming off cleanly in great big swathes instead of tiny shreds.
Ha! I worked from ten to seven then stopped, exhausted, bruised and spattered with scalding steam and drips. All the actual paper is off, but the paper lining is mostly still on there. The idiots only went and papered directly onto the plasterboard, apart from a border of red paint running around the room to waist height. I'm pulling off bits of the skim coat and gouging it with the scraper...it's a mess.
I think we're going to need to get someone in to skim it again. If we try to patch it, it'll show through the paint and reskimming the wall, eh, it's a job for the professionals. We fixed a small, dark corner of our bedroom ourselves but it's far from perfect and a whole room? No.
I keep staring at the magazine and trying to psych myself up and not burst into tears at how much work there is to do.
I've done one wall now, getting every scrap off and washing it down. That was an easy wall with double glass doors in it. Still took an hour. Gah.
It was their dining room, and had a chandelier but hello, we're not the kind of people who need a dining room.
Or a chandelier...
Anyway, it was also wallpapered, a dark green with a pattern. I had a go at stripping it off with the usual hand tools, failed, and rented a steamer thingummy yesterday, confident that thusly armed, the stuff would be coming off cleanly in great big swathes instead of tiny shreds.
Ha! I worked from ten to seven then stopped, exhausted, bruised and spattered with scalding steam and drips. All the actual paper is off, but the paper lining is mostly still on there. The idiots only went and papered directly onto the plasterboard, apart from a border of red paint running around the room to waist height. I'm pulling off bits of the skim coat and gouging it with the scraper...it's a mess.
I think we're going to need to get someone in to skim it again. If we try to patch it, it'll show through the paint and reskimming the wall, eh, it's a job for the professionals. We fixed a small, dark corner of our bedroom ourselves but it's far from perfect and a whole room? No.
I keep staring at the magazine and trying to psych myself up and not burst into tears at how much work there is to do.
I've done one wall now, getting every scrap off and washing it down. That was an easy wall with double glass doors in it. Still took an hour. Gah.
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1) Nothing is ever as simple as it appears.
2) If the project is going swimmingly well, watch out.
Good luck with this--it sounds like a bear, but it'll look great when it's all done.
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I'm so glad all of mine is gone!
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*hugs*
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