Woodchip wallpaper.

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What is it with everyone hating this wallpaper?
why?
It’s all over my house. Admittedly it was here when we moved in but I can’t understand why people find it so offensive?

Had the house on the market a few years ago and a couple of viewers stated they wouldn’t buy it purely because of the woodchip.

its just wallpaper isn’t it? Far less offensive than some paper?

I get that people want flat walls as they look more modern but not in a period house!

someone enlighten me pls?

It's a complete pain in the arse to remove, not like other wallpapers. At least with flat wallpapers, if you can't remove them, you can paint over them. Woodchip is always woodchip.

Is it real or modern woodchip? Real can be a pain to remove modern not so much

Yes this my last house had decades of paint on it, then we moved and it seemed to haunt us because there it was again ! It is a nightmare to get off.

I once spent ages stripping off wood chip wallpaper in the hopes of replacing it with something that didn’t catch your clothes when walking up stairs.

only to discover it was playing an important role in holding the wall plaster together, so we put new wood chip up

This. I think in times gone by wood chip was often used to hide poor plaster underneath. So people who would seek to remove the wood chip also have to factor in maybe having to replaster.

As everyone has said, because it is hideous to get off. And it will likely be hiding plaster in a poor state of repair.

We bought a house smothered in it years ago. Nearly brought me to breaking point trying to get it off. Got a man in in the end, which we could ill afford at the time.

There is also the fact that I think it looks horrible, but that is a purely subjective view, obviously!

@Mmmcheese89but that goes for any wallpaper doesn’t it? Granted you can possibly see blown plaster easier through flat wallpaper but not purchasing a house you love purely because of woodchip seems a bit excessive to me (that’s what happened with our buyers)

@twiddlingthumbs69 not quite in the same way. Wood chip is double layered (to get the chips in between). Plus, as another poster said, you could paint over a smooth wallpaper if you didn't like the pattern, you can't paint over wood chip to remove the texture. I wouldn't buy a woodchip house. The one I'm in now had hard textured wallpaper, thankfully only on a couple of very small walls so I took the punt and got lucky with what was underneath.

The reason people put wood chip on in the first place is because the walls are dodgy, so it’s a huge red flag. It’s holding the plaster together. You can’t remove it without replastering, which is not true of other wallpapers, and you can’t hide it with paint. You can buy paper that is designed to go over the top of wood chip, and paint that - never tried so not sure if that is effective

"I get that people want flat walls as they look more modern but not in a period house!"

Eh? @twiddlingthumbs69 Are you saying that period houses shouldn't have flat walls and look good with woodchip wallpaper?

Imo, woodchip looks hideous in any era of property, but definitely shouldn't be seen in a period house!

We've only ever lived in old houses (the newest was Victorian, the oldest was Tudor) and have been fortunate to only find woodchip in a couple of the nine properties we've bought. One of these - a four bed, three reception, 2000 sq ft Victorian house - had it in virtually every room, on walls and ceilings and even (as I said on a different thread) on the tops and undersides of shelves in an original, built-in floor-to ceiling linen press. God, did I curse the idiot who did that!