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Hi everyone, a newbie here.
We moved into our first home and wanted to decorate the rooms as they didn't look good enough. We bought all these tools and materials etc and started scraping off paint, then found out it was wallpaper and it took ages to finish as there were so many layers. We now can finally see the plaster but have big patches of pink&blue paint (I think oil based) and it is very difficult to remove it by using a scraper. As it was taking ages, we started using a heatgun thinking it makes it a little easier -although still using a scraper. Then started reading about heatgun on plaster and some advise not to do this as it might cause caking? And so we stopped. Googled what else we can do to make it quicker and it advises to use a chemical stripper- not sure if it's a good idea? I will try and attach pictures to this post. It is a small room but I'm starting to regret this whole decorating project. All we want is long lasting, smooth and quality looking white walls -nothing more. We need some advice as to how to get these walls ready for coating and painting. Any help is much appreciated. Thank you.
We moved into our first home and wanted to decorate the rooms as they didn't look good enough. We bought all these tools and materials etc and started scraping off paint, then found out it was wallpaper and it took ages to finish as there were so many layers. We now can finally see the plaster but have big patches of pink&blue paint (I think oil based) and it is very difficult to remove it by using a scraper. As it was taking ages, we started using a heatgun thinking it makes it a little easier -although still using a scraper. Then started reading about heatgun on plaster and some advise not to do this as it might cause caking? And so we stopped. Googled what else we can do to make it quicker and it advises to use a chemical stripper- not sure if it's a good idea? I will try and attach pictures to this post. It is a small room but I'm starting to regret this whole decorating project. All we want is long lasting, smooth and quality looking white walls -nothing more. We need some advice as to how to get these walls ready for coating and painting. Any help is much appreciated. Thank you.