Recent content by Matthew Kavanagh

Thank you for all the advice

Hi, I have given it a scrub with hot soapy water for 5 minutes and it started to come off a bit.you can see the result in the 1st picture. Yes, the paint does go to a paste when wet, so I have to give it quite a hard scrub for it to come off. In the second picture you can see from left to...

Hi everyone thank you for your help. The property was built in 1956, only one person has lived in the property prior to us. The wall seems abit Sticky so abit worried about applying anything. When the product on the walls gets wet it turns into really think paste and is equally as hard to...

Hi all, I have bought my first house and I am taking my first steps into DIY. I have removed the wallpaper from the walls and underneath appears to be a yellowish paint/plaster? In some areas it is flakey and in others it appears pretty smooth. I have uploaded two pictures. I have read that...