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To hate textured wallpaper

34 replies

SWFARMER · 01/09/2015 07:36

We've just bought a house and it's bloody everywhere. On all walls and ceilings!! Bar the bathroom. Aibu to bloody despise it?!

We started stripping the living room yesterday and it's bloody hard work with textured.

Ironic thing is that the plastering underneath is okay but not amazing so couldn't paint straight over. I'm now thinking of getting it all wallpapered (not textured!) I always said I'd paint as much as I couldn't and have a wallpapered feature wall.

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Skiptonlass · 01/09/2015 07:41

Textured wallpaper is indeed the work of satan.

However, I confess myself not keen on the 'feature wallpaper on one wall look' either. Have had to admirethefruits of friends labours (black /turquoise with butterflies in a North facing lowceilinged modern semi anyone? Yum yum..) a few too many times...

Still, their house, their decor.

Can you get the walls lightly skimmed once you're done with the stripping? That gives you a nice finish to start again on.

NapoleonsNose · 01/09/2015 07:44

I agree, it's awful stuff. I always want to poke my nails in the puffy bits.

KingJoffreyLikesJaffaCakes · 01/09/2015 08:04

All wallpaper is hideous.

Paper. On a wall. It scuffs and looks scruffy. You can't wipe it down properly.

And the feature wall thing has had it's day.

SaucyJack · 01/09/2015 08:10

I like a feecha wall. Hides a multitude of sins.

GloGirl · 01/09/2015 08:14

Get a steamer, leave on for one cycle in the room to let the steam seep everywhere, the use it as directed.

I like non textured wallpaper all over it sounds nice

Mrsjayy · 01/09/2015 08:23

You need a steamer to get into it we are putting thick lining paper up and painting we had get some plastering done but cant afford to get them all done , our new hpuse has pink gloss paint on 2 of the bedroom walls and skirtings GLOSS

JessesGirl · 01/09/2015 09:13

I have a house covered in textured wallpaper too. I recently stripped the hallway and wish I hadn't bothered - the whole lots needs replastering and a stud wall needs completely replacing as the wallpaper was the only thing actually holding it together!

ProcrastinatorGeneral · 01/09/2015 10:36

My house is full of the foul stuff. The only saving grace is that none of it is fucking woodchip!

MaxieMouse · 01/09/2015 10:41

YANBU. Textured wallpaper and artex ceilings - yuck!

prettygirlincrimsonrose · 01/09/2015 10:57

YANBU. Very satisfying tearing it off when we moved into our place and getting it all replastered.

Mrsjayy · 01/09/2015 12:01

We moved into here with woodchip everywhere with about 30 years of emulsion over it

ProcrastinatorGeneral · 01/09/2015 12:26

Oh holy fuck MrsJayy! That would have made me reconsider the move! Did you just plaster over it?

A friend bought a house where one of the bedrooms had artexed walls that had been glossed in pink and purple. They just hired a plasterer and never spoke of it again.

User543212345 · 01/09/2015 12:32

My mother put it up everywhere in our house in the 90s, which is surely 20 years later than it should have been put anywhere. I still haven't forgiven her for it - godawful stuff. Then she had a textured paint finish over the top Shock

I wonder why all my walls are untextured and uncoloured.

Mrsjayy · 01/09/2015 12:48

Tbf we moved here in the 90s first house not a clue about woodchip evilness we are moving there with the gloss paint i thought it was shiny wall paper Blush

SawdustInMyHair · 01/09/2015 12:52

Fuck no! Textured wallpaper is probably what Hitler is staring at right now in his very special cell in the deepest circle of hell.

(I do not care for textured wallpaper)

Qwertybynature · 01/09/2015 12:58

YANBU. Wish I'd looked up more before we bought our house. There's woodchip ON THE CEILING. Who does that? Dreading taking it off as the ceiling will probably come with it.

randomsabreuse · 01/09/2015 13:06

We had this. It is gone, every penny spent removing it and every hour spent with steamer, the wood chips in the hair are all worth it.

Actually I tell a lie, 1 ceiling remains but all of the rest are gone.

Best was the area uncovered when we removed the false ceiling to uncover the disintegrating window in the stairwell. Lurid pink woodchip! One of the bedrooms had clearly been orangeat the same time as well.

Mrsjayy · 01/09/2015 13:07

We had wood chip on the new ceiling dh took it off at the weekend ir came off ok he steamed the life out of it though actually depressing myself now just want it finished sigh

mrstiggy · 01/09/2015 13:17

Oh God do I agree. I'm outing myself to all my fb friends if they see this but I am just about to go and tackle my kitchen again so this is a rant close to my heart. Grin
We have just moved house and there is textured wallpaper everywhere . Generally on top of about 3/4 layers of old wallpaper and paint. We haven't had the heart to start on my bedroom yet but that is woodchip and they have even done the beam in the middle of the ceiling with the damn stuff. One room was textured paper on top of that plastic coated wipeable paper on top of painted wallpaper. I nearly cried trying to get that slippy glooey mess off the walls. I bloody hate wallpaper, YADNBU.
Right, wish me luck.

2rebecca · 01/09/2015 13:24

I like it, covers up imperfections in old houses. i wouldn't use it in a new house but think it's great for old houses

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SWFARMER · 01/09/2015 20:44

Update for you all. All walls done and 3/4 ceiling done. Thank God!! Although only one room out of every other in the house to go omg.

Just want my living room done now so I have a little piece of sanctuary. Although our conservatory is done too! Ha.

I like a feature wall just cause you can change that as frequently as you like cause I cba to change 4 walls everything I decorate!! Lol

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Purplepoodle · 01/09/2015 21:03

we have an old house and it's been a godsend for sitting room and hall/stairs. Did pay quite a bit per roll to get a nice one with very subtle texture but it's done the job.

Purplepoodle · 01/09/2015 21:05

best tip for old stuff though is to score it as deeply as possible then use a steam stripper - usually not too evil to get off (unless it's on the ceiling)

Stokes · 01/09/2015 21:09

Oh I feel your pain. When we moved in here every ceiling and most of the walls had textured wallpaper. WTF?! Almost all gone now, the difference it made was amazing. Good luck!

WizzardHat · 01/09/2015 22:05

When I got this place, every wall and every ceiling had woodchip. In the living room, it's woodchip over some kind of textured paper - if i'm lucky. If i'm not lucky, it's fucking artex.
They'd put it over unfinished plasterboard in lots of places, so it rips up the wall as it comes off. And on top of that, they'd covered a lot of it in vinyl paint - waterproof. Steamproof too. You have to steam the paint to soften it up tp peel it, then steam the paper and hope the wall doesn't dissolve.

I'd really like to meet the people who last did this place up!

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