Filling A Room After Removing The Wallpaper

Filling A Room After Removing The Wallpaper

[@siypic]

Been sorting out my parents place last redecorated, god knows ( every room had patchy walls when the paper was removed) sanded all the walls down, soudaled and filled, pva and a couple of coats of matt and its ready for final coats of colour............. I believe this is the best channel for P&D without a doubt.

[@PaintingandDecorating]

Thank you and I bet you got a lot of satisfaction getting the job looking good.. thank for watching..

[@raycarter4030]

this video fills me with horror and makes me realise how thankful I an I don’t do this any more. The patchy walls, the realisation that you really do have to line it, the grimness of the amount of work involved with that, the sanding, the nasty six coats deep skirting full of divots and high points, encumbered by that carpet gripper eventually dripping with blood.

[@PaintingandDecorating]

Oh you make it sound like fun.. but so true.

[@harleymac6308]

This was a great help, thank you 😊

[@TomTremayne]

I agree with Ray Carter in the comments section below. The amount of work, & hard, laborious, unrewarding work is surely at it's greatest in P&D. I undertook a kitchen that had been sub-let & shared by various groups of South Americans in the Brixton area & went to the same high standards as this guy does & it practically broke me. I lost money, felt totally alone, almost suicidal & so angry that I'd said yes to the job! On the way home I took to drinking strong Polish beer from cans as I walked! The guy in this video is like an old British machine with an almost transcendental approach to it all, I'd love to see him struggling with a job or hear about horrible jobs he's had?

[@chaddamp2894]

Thanks..I'll be tackling two bedrooms soon,this post is very useful thanks !!

[@naseemakhtar4201]

Amazing high quality preparation, just wish that all decorators can follow this high standards of work

[@decker1130]

Depends if the customer is prepared to pay for the high quality preparation…..most don’t I’m afraid

[@gypsygem9395]

Thank you so much for this video. I've just stripped several rooms of paper and filled holes/cracks, and am ready to sand down the filler. But this video shows how much more I have to do before lining the walls! Unfortunately the previous owners used silicon sealant on everything from the tops of skirting boards, under coving, on top and under dado and picture rails etc etc. It's a nightmare as it hangs onto the old paper (a lot of it being woodchip, a nightmare in itself) at the edges, necessitating using a knife - not an easy job. What grades of sandpaper did you use for the walls and skirtings?

[@ttsstt1000]

I love your work with the scraper and scraper blade is awesome as you are a true master with these tools are you using a hawk to put undercoat plaster on????

[@itwillbenicewhenitsfinished]

Would love the same but what to do with lime plaster before painting

[@neilspeers5578]

Hi mate what about if painting ? Use the gardz coat then 3 coats of emulsion? Obviously all filling sanding etc caulking in between coats ?

[@adamgrimes7101]

How long do you wait for the undercoat plaster to dry before putting int he Polyfilla?

[@markdyballuk]

excellent and thorough work thank you for sharing

[@PaintingandDecorating]

Cheers thanks. Your welcome 👍

[@MrBoxingVideos]

Your videos are helpful and informative so thank you. Is there a reason why you don't use tools to help you speed up the process? For example a dry wall sander or a detail sander for skirting boards?

[@megaman2016]

What was the brown filler you used?

[@chaddamp2894]

Hi..have you ever tiled over marble fire surround ?

[@garvielloken3929]

I've dry removed some old wallpaper from a really dry wall. THe plaster underneath is still stuck to the wall but there are loads of fine cracks. Any suggestions? Would it be ok to walpaper over it? Better still, do you have a vid on it?

[@yoshii793]

where can i buy the scraping tool (cutting off excess foam filler). i see you using it often. Fabulous video

[@gypsygem9395]

I was wanting to know this too!

[@jamessomers8955]

@@gypsygem9395 They are called filling blades you can get them in any DIY Store or from Amazon.

[@acropolisnow9466]

Mate for crying out loud buy a random orbit dustless sanding system, save yourself the grief of sanding walls manually. It makes no sense to sand areas that rough and that big by hand. Appreciate that your work is decent and that you're old school but there's been some pretty amazing innovations in P&D equipment that just makes the job so much more efficient and enjoyable. Also, said it many times before, try Toupret TX110 filler, you can fill holes of any depth with it. Ditch the Polyfilla, it's an inferior product and there are so many better options on the market now.

[@orbitalforest]

Spot on mate , these two are excellent tradesmen but would help themselves no end if they moved with the times a bit . Time is money.

[@acropolisnow9466]

@@orbitalforest I've seen you post before on here and you get what I'm talking about. Time is indeed money, and a lot of jobs in our trade take a great deal of time. Also, just the sheer monotonous physical exertion of doing everything the old fashioned way is just plainly mad considering the far superior alternatives at hand.

[@DadThatCooks]

Would you still recommend painting and decorating as a trade to get in to?

[@PaintingandDecorating]

Yes but it's hardwork long hours.. lot of satisfaction and own boss.

[@denisconor648]

Great stuff.

[@PaintingandDecorating]

Thank you..

[@mrdeafa25]

Could those walls ever be suitable for re-painting after prep or is papering the only cost-effective option other than a re-skim?

[@PaintingandDecorating]

You can paint them but most people like paper first. To paint you need to wash off the paste then mist coat, fill what you can see then a coat of paint.. Repeat process and it should look good.

[@jamesduffy5019]

The dreaded gripper rod when sanding! 😫 Great vid👍

[@davewright9312]

I'm afraid they come up...too many times I've cut my fingers open

[@pauljai7151]

I've had a couple of these recently, remove the wallpaper and paint it they say. Unfortunately its never that easy!!

[@charliejyates]

Hello - why would you use polyfiller on the door architrave over caulk?

[@PaintingandDecorating]

Do not like using caulk on interior filling.. doesn't sand and takes too long to dry and paint doesn't really like it. Thanks

[@charliejyates]

@@PaintingandDecorating great thanks

[@nrosko]

Great video thank you. So you use filler right up to the pvc window frame? You wouldn't use some kind of caulk or sealant?

[@PaintingandDecorating]

Thank you .. if the windows are nicely secure and foamed, then pollyfilla is perfectly fine.. and the best finish.

[@sheenjo]

great vid good info

[@PaintingandDecorating]

Thank you.

[@paulwilson1555]

Another great video, could I use Chaulk instead of polyfiller on the skirting and door frames?

[@TomTomTomTom538]

Sure, that is what most people use. But it will shrink and sometimes crack over time if there is movement. Not a problem it can be re-done every time you redecorate. It's just a sticking plaster really though.

[@paulwilson1555]

@@TomTomTomTom538 thank you for your reply, I shall use a filler, instead of chaulk

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

@@paulwilson1555 filler cracks open when it dries out over time, also if you paper the walls and use a blade to cut the top edge of the skirting, the blade can dig in and crak it open. If you get the right caulk, if won't crack. best to get the interior/exterior flexi caulks you can buy now days. If you need to back fill, with caulk (depending on how big it is, silly foam can be used if its very big), do that, then finish the top edge with caulk, nice and smooth.

[@paulwilson1555]

@@ProfessionalPainterDecorator brilliant thank you, I shall check out the flexi caulk.

[@dannywilkins887]

The artex ceiling is a acquired taste 😅

[@gypsygem9395]

The artex in that particular room was a strange mix if several different designs that's for sure!

[@sacgrinner]

I've just removed the old wallpaper from a living room and the walls are a mishmash of old and new plaster, various cracks, rough bits, some old water damage spots. I was thinking of renting one of those large vacuum sanders and going over the walls to try and get some uniformity for painting. Would a sander take off everything or should I sugar soap to get rid of any traces of old paste? I want to get a nice paint finish at the end so I'm wondering whether I should try and get the walls smooth, pay a plasterer to do a skim coat or pay someone to install lining paper? I'd really appreciate any help with this as I'm a bit new to interior DIY and don't want to mess it up. Thanks for all of your superb videos.

[@Scottyschannelmtb]

Mirka sander and extractor light work ❤

[@davewright9312]

What on earth were they thinking with that ceiling it's several different patterns of artex!!! Would be ringing the plasterer for that I'm afraid..

[@michaelmercury1256]

Another master class in decorating. This is one of the best channels for me on UA-cam. Please forgive my question, can I use watered down SBR to seal walls and paint to leave a key and bind to the old surface, as you do with watered down PVA? I have other uses for the SBR and it is water resistant. Many thanks for your efforts.

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

You shouldn't use PVA, I don't know where this has come from, it's not something taught at college. PVA is what plasterers use, SBR also .. as they go into plaster and render mixes. PVA is a decorators nightmare when you come across it when it's been used. When you roll a ceiling and a plaster had patched up and excess PVA has been used and it's on the surface, the paint softens it up.. and when you re roll over it, the paint comes away.

[@michaelmercury1256]

Any chance of your thoughts on my question about SBR? You are much better than I am in replying. Kind regards for your work.

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

@@michaelmercury1256 I've no idea what SBR is as it's again.. not a Decorators product. It's what builders, renderer and plasters would use.
So I'd say don't use it and why would you.

[@paulwilson1555]

Another quick question, the door frames where they join, there is a thin line, where the two pieces of wood meet, could I use Chaulk just to fill the line? Or would I use wood filler? The surface is currently painted and will be painted over.

[@TomTomTomTom538]

I've had some of my architrave mitres crack through the paint. I found the only way to stop it coming back is to run a fine saw down the mitre to open it up to get foam behind and fill with 2 pack filler. A couple of veneer pins from the top or side help too.
You can't smear filler or caulk over the top or it will just crack again. I wouldn't recommend caulk for that job it will just shrink back too much

[@paulwilson1555]

@@TomTomTomTom538 thank you, I shall try that.

[@TapelessDrywallFinishing]

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[@skylark4074]

What’s your thoughts on filler coat ? I have just removed 5 layers of paper from 1950 !!! 🥴. It’s all come off evenly but the wall isn’t super smooth - are filler coats like everbuiild any good ??? Thanks. I want to emulsion not paper !

[@acropolisnow9466]

Toupret TX110 and Toupret Joint & Skim ready mixed are the best wall fillers on the market.

[@AspireDecorating]

Toupret fill & level is a good product for a diy'er

[@acropolisnow9466]

@@AspireDecorating I've never actually used it, though I have seen videos.

[@Pete.Ty1]

👍👍👍

[@LukeStratton94]

If you’re spending that much on professional redecoration of the room, why not get all that dated artex skimmed at the same time?! People annoy me! (Aimed at the customer, not you!)

[@miker8149]

👍👍

[@PaintingandDecorating]

Thank you..