Hi all,
Its your lone Brit subscriber with a really bad wrist. Gonna moan a bit here.
I had a job last week.... working for the old man (dad)
Thick wallpaper, heavily backed, with HEAVY underlining, and a layer of emulsion underneath. Why one layer of white emulsion i dont know. It must have been emulsion because it was not adhering to the wall and would have bubbled onto the roller if painted.
After getting the Paper off with water, ended up having to steam off the paint from 45 sq metres
of wall, dad would not have stripper in the house cause of the animals!!! ( i hate stripper anyway its useless.)
Lost the will to live after 2 & 1/2 days, filled all the digs from my 2 inch scraper which is now sharpened at the end to the sharpness of a razor (
) and all the holes.
All the way round dads trying to make me cut corners. " just paint over it" Was the catchphrase which nearly got him slice up with my new found scraper sword.
got there in the end, will put up a b4 and after to show the walls.
The annoying thing is my dads wife had got a quote for 10 days work an dad had told me it was 4-5 days worth.. and that included undercoat and gloss on 10 doors! lol!
Note to self.. never work for freinds and family!