Opinions on this bedroom walls idea please

[RhodaChrosite]

The walls in my HA flat haven’t been properly plastered and the first time it was decorated, chunks of wall were literally falling away.

The decorator polyfillered as best he could and put lining paper up then painted. The walls are also seem very dried out and the paper now feels brittle and is looking crap (it’s been up 8 years but has looked bad for years).

Would getting it planned out as per pic work do you think? I can’t afford a ‘top’ decorator as am on a limited budged but would it be easy for someone to do?

Or have I got any rights to ask HA to properly plaster the walls? If I try nail a picture up anywhere, the nail just comes out taking a chunk of crumbly grey rubble stuff with it.

Planked out I mean. Not planned.

Is that boards? If so, very easy to do. I did a bathroom (including cutting around all the fiddly pipes and fixtures) on my own with a hacksaw and a hammer. YouTube had a lot of videos on how to do it.

Problem is you’ll need to nail battons on to the wall and if it’s crumbling that may be an issue.

Yes it’s planks of wood. Good to know it would be any easy job. I take the point that the crumbly walls could be a problem. The bedroom ones aren’t as bad as the living room ones so it could be that they’ll stay nailed on.

There may be a product you could paint on to seal the plaster somehow...

i would ask about them being replastered first

I think there’s no harm in asking about replastering. We are responsible for keeping interior clean and decorated but it makes decorating very hard (and more expensive) when the walls haven’t been properly plastered. The blocks are over 50 years old and not in a great condition.

Im not sure if the plastering could be sealed nothingunpleasant. When the decorator came after I moved in and stripped the wallpaper off, there was literally black rubbly stuff underneath. I’ve never seen anything like it and th decorator said he had never come across walls in such a bad way. And he wasn’t a young chap so had plenty experience of walls in all sorts of conditions I imagine.