ANt wrote:
First day on the job and I get home tonight to find behind the dry
lining the wall was painted..looks older on the inside than the
outside also..hmmmm...I guess that's why they dry lined :-( The paint
is very flakey and the old brickwork quite crumbly.

Now I have until next Tuesday to remove the flakey paint so that the
plasterer has something to key into.

my thoughts....

Old Drill with a metal brush attachement was my thought (several metal
brush attachments no doubt), but have no idea how long these will
last, and how long it'll take me to do.

Plasterer recommended an Air-needle gun but these look like a very
small area of impact and not sure how long that will take...

HSS also have a 'Hand-Held Scabbler' that looks fun, about brick size
by the looks of it but I'm worried that these power tools will just
destroy the crumbly brickwork...

anyone have any experience of doing this ? any one with any
recommendations ? any clues how long it'll take ?

exposed wall so far is 4.5M long * 2.4M high (recon the opposite wall
will be the same, but at least that has a window in it)

If you still need to remove the paint the quickest way would be to
get someone in to sand-blast it. Look in the Yellow Pages. Cost -
maybe L.100, something like that.


JB
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