#755

i assume you’re painting the doors/trim as per the poll. I think it looks really nice. Great job!

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#756

Your lawn is in a right state.

#757

Re did the silicone around the shower/bath this weekend :muscle:

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#758

silicone-ing baths/showers is my least favourite job. fucking sucks and always make a mess even when using masking tape etc

#759

Alright mate! One job at a time!
Has so many weeds despite repeated treatments. Might dig it out and relay. Kids play thing going on left so might dig that out and lay some bark or sumfink

#760

It’s a ball ache innit… by the time I’d finished I was a bit of a pro… but am I fuck going back over the first half where it looks a bit shit :laughing:

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#762

Wee overgrown area to the right of the front door. Covered in chips over a weed membrane was expensive enough but bought three pots and three fake plants today and that was £150. Why is DIY so bloody expensive? Fuck you, Dobbies.

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#763

DIY and all garden stuff is mental expensive. Literally every trip to a garden centre is eye wateringly pricey.

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#764

It wouldn’t be Bank Hols without a bit of DIY.

So i’m redecorating my bedroom. My bedroom has had such bad condensation damp that the walls are noticeably damp and it’s stinky and all sorts so I wanted to start fresh with stripping off the paper and redoing that and painting again etc.

I’ve gone to take a bit of wallpaper off to see what the wall situ is like under there and the wallpaper is some fucking thick spongey polystyrene insulation wallpaper…that’s holding all the moisture! Hence why it’s all damp and stinky in there. The plastered walls underneath are completely dry.

What should I do?

  1. Sand down and prep the plaster to paint directly on that
  2. Prep the wall then rewallpaper with lining paper then painnt
  3. Redo it with this shit insulation wallpaper stuff

My room does get very cold BUT I feel like that wallpaper is like a sponge containing all the damp when the walls are dry so it’s not making sense to me to put that back on the walls for a repeat of that again. I can’t see it making the room LOADS colder without it.

It’s causing…shall we say…bank holiday tension in my house. HELP!

#765

I would go back to the plaster and paint that if it’s in ok condition - liner paper seems to get used if the plaster is not that great , but then it’s better to get the walls skimmed cos wallpaper is bullshit

I would strip 1st, then leave it a bit before painting to make sure the walls really are nice and dry

If the plaster has never been painted apply a “mist coat” 1st - just get white emulsion and water it down a bit (about 40%) water

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#766

What a load of old bullshit.

Strip it tomoz. Leave it. Enjoy the lovely long weekend. Assess it in due course to make sure you’re defo good and dry. Come back to it next bank hol weekend.

Agreed. If you’re gonna do it, do it right and proper. Unless this is just a cosmetic readying for an imminent sale. (In which case, don’t be a git, but don’t bust a gut either.)

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#767

Definitely recommend a skim if you’re going to be in it a while. Not sure in London prices but up here a small room skim is like £200 including materials so worth it IMO. I also like sticking a fresh radiator on as well

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#768

Thanks guys! @grievoustim @TheWza @jont2001
I mentioned this to the bf and his eyes lit up at the idea of getting someone to skin the walls for us!
I’m gonna take it off tomorrow and see what the situation of the walls are like behind there. I’m just mega keen to get this damp insulation wallpaper off now.

I’m sure i’ll keep you posted :joy:

We are planning to sell it but not til the end of the year/early next year so I want a good enough job so it’s nice to live in cause at the moment it’s just tired and I did a mega slap dash job with repainting it last year (just painting over the black !! painted walls the owner had decided to do)

#769

Posted it in another thread last week but we painted the fence in the garden. Found the photos from the estate agent listing from before we moved in.

Before:

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After:

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Every bit of the house looks like a completely different place now tbf.

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#770

What did you do with the manhole cover?

Or is it out of shot?

#771

Out of shot. I suspect they were the reason the quote for the patio was so much - having to piss about cutting slabs/concreting around them.

Were putting a dozen slabs down under the kitchen window next weekend, so that will at least double the patio we’ve got, even if it doesn’t extend outwards yet…

#772

what have i done this is beyond a pig to get off

How do I get it off???

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#773

I can’t even score through it???

#774

Steam it?

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#775

I may try to that but it’s so weird because it seems like it’s like a layer of felt and the felt is stuck directly to the plaster. It’s also so thick that my Stanley knife won’t even cut through it?
I can get off a square at a time but removing the layers of wallpaper on top (2 layers!!) and then soaking the felt and that comes off eventually.
Also whoever done this was just plain lazy. They’ve wallpapered over holes and plugs and screws in the wall???

It’s…odd. Don’t ever put up thermal wallpaper guys.