New starter - need help with bad walls please.

[Suffolkpaul]

Hi Everyone,

Myself and my wife have moved into our first "old house" dated 1951, I am having to deal with things when decorating i've not seen before. Our first baby is due in 8 weesk and im trying to sort out the nursery.

I've steam stripped the old paper (3 layers!!!) with and taken it back to the wall. what a mess. the wall is a very porous, flakey white material with parts of old original paint on it.

I really doubt it will take paint, let alone achieve a decent finnish. Can it be skimmed straight onto the surface or do you think it will need sealing??

Thanks for your help.

Paul

 

[Zampa]

Sounds like distemper..it needs to come off im affriad..

Wash it over with warm water and scrape it, once you have got rid of most of it the wash the rest off,

Then seal it using either thinned out alkali resisting primer or dulux stain block