Wall Issues.....

[housetohome]

Hi. I have not long bought a flat, unfortunately the previous owners saw fit to paint EVERY surface in sight with coarse textured paint (the sand type one) As you can prob appriciate I cannot afford to go out and pay plasterers to sort it out for me, but I cannot possibly stand the sight of it much longer!!

The walls seem pretty sound underneath, apart from the typical cracks that always arrive the second you start peeling paper/paint off!

Is there a easy way to sort it? Can i screw/glue some type of thin plasterboard onto the walls? Would I need to finish it off somehow?

It might sound lazy, but I really do not have the will to peel all the rubbishy paint off!

Please help....losing the plot!

Thankyou!

 

[baz1968]

http://www.diytools.co.uk/diy/Main/...thover-textured-walls-&-ceilings-5-litres.asp

 

[housetohome]

have not heard good things about polycell smoothover, anybody have their own opinion?

 

[JeSuisSpartacus]

Just used Smoothover on my bathroom walls and this defintely doesn't do what it says on the tin - left me with a bigger job to sand the whole wall and refill the low points - next time I will just fill/repair/rub back the wall without wasting time and money on this product.

 

[Richard C]

Only 7 months old this time, not quiet so bad I can see you don't like the stuff