I'm currently in the middle of scraping a load of paint off my kitchen
walls so that I can get it skimmed and then partly paint it / tile it.

The walls are very uneven as past occupants had no care in the property and
just painted the odd area. In some areas i've got probably 7 layers of
paint. I'm managing to get most of it off although there are certain areas
that have a thin coat which i'm struggling to get off.

We're living in the property so i don't want to cause too much dust but I
know it's hard. The walls do not seem to be the modern type of (pink)
plaster and seem to be a rough mixture of sand/cement bonded to the wall.

My question is do I need to get everything off the wall for it to be
skimmed or can I get away with taking off most of the paint and then
leaving the thin layers which are hard to get off then bond it a couple of
times using PVA?

Thanks

Pedge