We are currently re-decorating our house. This is our first house so
we are very new to it all. We plan to remove wall paper and dado
rails and paint the wall a plain colour eg off white.

Removing the wallpaper has been a lot easier than we anticipated, but
the wall underneath has very small dents and chips in the paint. Is
there an easy way to improve these... they look too small for filler.
Would covering with a liner paper before painting help. Is there any
paint that would help fill the dents and chips, or are we now
committed to having the wall replastered.

would appreciate any advice anyone has to offer.

regards
Bruce

I've never been happy with the effect of painted lining paper on old walls.
As the dado removal will probably need filling, I'd invest in a skim coat
particularly as you plan on an almost white wall.

Colin

(brucej) wrote in message om...
We are currently re-decorating our house. This is our first house so
we are very new to it all. We plan to remove wall paper and dado
rails and paint the wall a plain colour eg off white.

Removing the wallpaper has been a lot easier than we anticipated, but
the wall underneath has very small dents and chips in the paint. Is
there an easy way to improve these... they look too small for filler.
Would covering with a liner paper before painting help. Is there any
paint that would help fill the dents and chips, or are we now
committed to having the wall replastered.

would appreciate any advice anyone has to offer.

regards
Bruce

Just doing the same.

Lots of sanding, Pollyfilla where possible, then about to apply a coat
of Polycell Basecoat (see my post last week) to try and cover up the
worst of the imperfections.

Good luck
Marc

Marc Lee wrote in message ...
Removing the wallpaper has been a lot easier than we anticipated, but
the wall underneath has very small dents and chips in the paint. Is
there an easy way to improve these... they look too small for filler.
Would covering with a liner paper before painting help. Is there any
paint that would help fill the dents and chips, or are we now
committed to having the wall replastered.
The rustic look seems to be the fashion at the moment, painting on to bare
plaster and highlighting all the imperfections. Personally, I'd line the
walls after giving it a couple of coats of 1pva: 4 water. This makes the
paper much easier to move around and it's flatter when it dries.
If you need to fill the dents, which is unlikely if you didn't notice them
before, apply sloppy Polyfilla with a plasterer's trowel. This way you
shouldn't need to rub it down afterwards. Of course you get it all over the
wall but it doesn't matter as long as it's flat.

"brucej" wrote in message
m...
We are currently re-decorating our house. This is our first house so
we are very new to it all. We plan to remove wall paper and dado
rails and paint the wall a plain colour eg off white.

Removing the wallpaper has been a lot easier than we anticipated, but
the wall underneath has very small dents and chips in the paint. Is
there an easy way to improve these... they look too small for filler.
Would covering with a liner paper before painting help. Is there any
paint that would help fill the dents and chips, or are we now
committed to having the wall replastered.

would appreciate any advice anyone has to offer.

regards
Bruce

Go over the wall with something to scrape off the small high-spots that may
be present, then just mix up one of the gritty fillers - polycell, mangers
and the likes. Apply to the dents, scrape off level whilst still workable,
then go over with a sanding block with coarse paper when it's all dried.
(wear a mask, but I'm sure I don't need to tell you that).

Prime/size the walls with weak paste/pva/basecoat/whatever, then line with a
HEAVY lining paper - you want 1000 or 1200 g/sq.m to best hide
imperfections.

You can now paint away to your heart's content. I'd recommend an initial
coat with a matt trade emulsion because going straight on with an expensive
colour coat will just use more paint - the lining paper will soak up a fair
amount.

It works well - I've done this in a few of the rooms of our house, none of
which had perfect plasterwork by any stretch of the imagination. You'd not
tell that there are imperfections underneath now, and I _am_ fussy about
standards of decoration.

cheers
Richard

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(brucej) wrote in message om...

We are currently re-decorating our house. This is our first house so
we are very new to it all. We plan to remove wall paper and dado
rails and paint the wall a plain colour eg off white.

Removing the wallpaper has been a lot easier than we anticipated, but
the wall underneath has very small dents and chips in the paint. Is
there an easy way to improve these... they look too small for filler.
Would covering with a liner paper before painting help. Is there any
paint that would help fill the dents and chips, or are we now
committed to having the wall replastered.

would appreciate any advice anyone has to offer.


Filler does work, I find it can be smoothed with a finger better than
with a metal tool.

A reskim would give you a more perfect surface, but isnt really
necessary if youre plaster's basically sound. Depends what you want to
spend your money on.

Lining paper is not ideal, it is often used on walls that are in a
rough state as a cheap fix.

Finally using a paint with some body also helps to reduce the
appearance of those jagged paint edges. Undercoat intended for gloss
paint works for this, though it does cost much more than emulsion, and
smells for a while. I used that approach a couple of times.


Regards, NT