I need to get this:
The same as this one I did earlier (and this one needs a recoat of varnish too as its been polished and cleaned over the years):
By earlier I mean like 7 years ago..
It was a hell of a job. I bought a lil black and decker mouse sander thing, and I may as well have tried just scraping the paint off with my fingernails tbh. It took HOURS.
I also bought some paint stripper gel and tried that and a scraper, but that was worse and hardly worked at all.
So what would you buy to make a quick job of it?
Just need to get it sanded back to bare wood then I’ll stain/varnish it like the other one. Make it rustic looking so holes etc are fine.
As for the rest of the room.....
Finally getting around to completely overhauling the spare box room. Going to get a sparky in to bury the wiring for the second mains plug that was installed a decade ago but externally to the walls, and also have him replace the 3 sockets and light switch with nicer types, then have the walls themselves plastered, but first removing all the lining paper that was put on and painted over.
The ceiling is artex and I hate it so that needs to get smoothed over.. and I was considering having spotlights installed in the ceiling at the same time..
The skirting boards are so shit too, literally just square planks of painted wood.
The floor is cheap laminate, very old.
It’s a pretty tiny room..
I don’t plan on doing much myself tbh.. though maybe I will.. but I feel like if I get the electrics sorted and the cable buried, that will further fuck the walls up, and theyre bad anyway so will deffo need plastering, so I’ll have to get a bloke in for that..
But then if I rip the skirting board up, well I’m just thinking I wonder how much it would cost to just get someone to do the lot tbh.
Theres loads of random things that annoy me in here atm..
Like this:
Any reason a random length of wood is stuck in the corner like that?
I feel like it might cost £2000 for someone to do all the work including the materials (floor, ceiling, walls, lights, sockets, skirting board etc).
But I havent even got a single quote yet lol. Never had anything like this done myself..
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Artex, overboard and skim.
better to overboard and fit surface mounted lights
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Artex actually has a very low asbestos content, but if it is post 1990s unlikely to have any.
ceiling.....cut all holes you need for new lights, then overboard and skim.....quickest and cleanest method, looks like you need some plaster doing anyhow ?
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When we bought our house ten years ago a spent 3 days de-artexing out bedroom ceiling, was easy but time consuming. My method was to use a steam wallpaper stripper, and a wide semi flexible scrapper, and about 3 meters of duck tape. Use the steamer to soften the artex, and scrape away. The duck tape was to protect my knuckles from wearing away on the ceiling.
whilst it’s open you can run cable...
it’s half a day for a plasterer to sort that if you do the donkey work.
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If you have asbestos, the secret is NOT to disturb it. Seal it with something (PVA is as good as anything) and plaster over that. That way any asbestos will not escape, It does mean you don't drill holes in the ceiling or the like to put in downlighters for example. If you want things like that then board and skim (I'd give the Artex a coat of PVA anyway if you're leaving it - it's cheap).
Frost’s Strip Gel is good, just like Nitromors used to be. A Google should find it.