Hello,
We have a 1930s house whose walls were covered in terrible wallpaper! We have now stripped most of it and want to get the walls skimmed for a great finish.
However, in the box room and in the hallways, there appears to be distemper paint above where the picture rails would have been (the previous owners took the rails out).
In our old house we had the same but it was far more flakey and came off easily with some hot water and a bit of elbow grease.
In this house seems much less chalky and working around for 5-10 minutes I was only able to get a tiny spot back to the plaster(see photo!). It will be near impossible to wipe this back to the plaster.
Help! Is there another way to deal with this?
We have a 1930s house whose walls were covered in terrible wallpaper! We have now stripped most of it and want to get the walls skimmed for a great finish.
However, in the box room and in the hallways, there appears to be distemper paint above where the picture rails would have been (the previous owners took the rails out).
In our old house we had the same but it was far more flakey and came off easily with some hot water and a bit of elbow grease.
In this house seems much less chalky and working around for 5-10 minutes I was only able to get a tiny spot back to the plaster(see photo!). It will be near impossible to wipe this back to the plaster.
Help! Is there another way to deal with this?