One of those pain in the ass jobs..er’ indoors hated the wallpaper , so we stripped / steamed the walls, the intention is to get all the paint off, fill where necessary & paint the walls It’s taken me an hour to do a 2 foot square patch, steaming the wall & scraping the paint off..Just made a swift escape to grab a beer & post on here...someone save me from this .. Any ideas ??
Have a look on my builder, I've always had decent tradesmen from there, read plenty reviews, jobsa guddun.
I agree with theskitz. I renovate houses and come across this quite a lot. PVA the walls and get it skimmed.
Same as no @NoGutsNoGlory I'm a chippy you will get the wall all paperless then sand your fingers off then the first coat of emulsion will let you see the wall is still in bits and have to fill and sand till you cry !
We had similar situation, used paint stripper which seemed to soften it enough to make it easier to scrape off. Took two coats of stripper though.
If you are going to fill and sand it yourself use something like Ames which is much easier to sand once dry.
As mentioned above, The best is skim the walls, will pay for its self next time it needs doing or selling. You could make good and Line the walls, if so use MAV 1400 grade. As you have now stripped it all off, you seem to be up against a lot of sound paint, i would stop steaming it off and just scrape/sand then put a coat of white paint over the lot, this will show up what needs filling, I would say your making to much work for yourself trying to take all the paint off.
