Decorating ? Council house

Then it's definitely worth the effort!!

My Aunt & Uncle have a bungalow as lifetime tenants. It's beautiful, they have put a lot of time, effort & decent money into making it so nice, it's worth it when you know it's your home forever! (Even if you don't own it! Their kids have all done ok for themselves & own their own homes, so not inheriting isn't an issue (and you never know if an owned property will get swallowed up in care home fees!!)

Congratulations on your new house I'm sure it'll look lovely when you've finished and you'll be able to relax and enjoy it.

Clearly my council has different rules.

Not HA.

All my walls were badly stripped leaving shocking plaster and there was no flooring just cement or broken planks exposing pipes and downstairs ceilings.
I think I would have been tempted to put an 8th coat on top 😭

And life time tenancies don't exist any more to a PP.

Yes, all of the council properties here are lifetime. The housing association ones have different rules I believe.

Do you have a lifetime tenancy?

The gloss paint on alllllllll the doors, radiators and skirting boards. I think I counted 8 different colours on my stairs!

Well no but many people can live in them for years whole life time, s even so might want ti decorate nicely
Yheu will also have to provide flooring etc.

What's that????

It is theirs. Tenancies are for life.

Why won’t they be there that long? I think you’re getting confused with some sort of temporary accommodation.

At least it's not woodchip.

Just keep chipping, but I'd be wondering the state of the walls underneath it all. Don't hesitate to get them in if chunks of wall come off.

they might do, but it's still a rental. You can't blame people for just adding a coat of paint, or wallpaper, on a property that is not theirs.

I'm guessing to cover up the cracks but yes papering a ceiling must be an unfun job!

My walls were so bad when I moved in that I've had to plasterboard everywhere, there was no salvaging the walls. The council racked up 120 decorating hours in my house before I moved in because it was such a state, but all they had done was stick that horrendous anaglypta wallpaper over everything.

10 years on every room has been done and is looking amazing now.

Sometimes it takes a while, but you'll get there op.

We moved from a council flat to a council house 32 years ago. The decorating wasn't too bad but oh my God the hall was absolutely rank and stank, they'd had dogs and kids and I think they used the area as a toilet for all of them. It was so bad the housing manager gave us £120 for cleaning products. We had a few repairs done and I kept apologising to the workmen about the smell and they all said not to worry as they'd been in there before.
How terrible do you have to be to live like that?
Forgot we had textured paper ceilings because council properties were not known for perfect plastering.

Ceilings wall paperd?
Just why?

When I moved into my council house it had a hole in the kitchen ceiling, the toilet leaked, the boiler was condemned, the gas meter had 2 leaks and the back door was insecure. Oh and it snowed the weekend I moved in, no heat or hot water because the gas was turned off, and it was 7 degrees indoors.

Oh, and most of the house was painted lime green or forest green, which took 4 layers of paint to cover, and some of the ceilings were wallpapered. Fun times.

Most people stay in council properties for years .

7 is insane i moaned at 3 when we moved in.
in a rental it makes sense, council or not. Being temporary, most people reasonably just put a quick layer of their own choosing, they don't want to spend money or too much effort when it's not theirs and they won't be there for that long.

Reading with interest. Last week I got the keys for a council flat that will need a lot of decorating - and the council inspectors have just found asbestos in the old floor tiles, so I can't begin work until they've declared it safe.

We were give £250 decorating vouchers when we first moved in ten years ago despite bring on a 12 month starter contract it was in a right state though.

Congratulations on your new home!
Moan away and post an after photo of all your hard work.

What is that you're eating? It looks interesting!

Bathroom paint as a top layer really goes funny when you steam it. And there were three layers under that.
Nicotine soaked paper is vile. I could see where they'd had photos hung by the outlines.

You're lucky you're allowed to decorate straight away, round our way,you have a temporary tenancy agreement for the first 12 months, and are not allowed to do anything like this. Where we live now, started off with an electric stripper it took the plaster off! I started on our bedroom,there was a layer of vinyl wallpaper painted over, got that off by scoring, soaking stripping, only to find another layer of vinyl paper also painted over. I spent 6/8 hours a day doing this with the radio going in the hall. Ended up with Tenosynovitis,in agony and wearing hand/wrist splints .