Woodchip Wallpaper

[calebsmum]

Our hallway and upstairs bedroom is covered in woodchip wallpaper and I hate it!! Anyone got an experiences of removing it or know a product that will cover it??

I had a whole house of it, I stripped the hwole lot over a few months dragging in any visitors to help Only one wall was actually bad and needed replastering.To make things worse the whole lot (except one room was painted bright yellow (like double yellow lines)

My xp1 and his mum loved wood-chip wall paper

The kids love it also, just let them pick all the wood-chips out, thats the bit they love about wood-chip paper

The best way I have found to take the stuff off of walks is to use a good wall paper steamer. Leave the steamer on the paper much longer than they say to and then scrap the paper off carefully. Its a long job but well worth the hassle once you finish taking the crap off your walls.

Dh removed it at our old house with a steamer. It came off easily.

I removed it from the living room of my flat - many yrs ago thank god. I had 2 lovely willing helpers ( one is now my dh)

Beware of steaming the walls for too long - this will bring the plaster off.

Just had woodchip and a couple of other types of textured wallpaper stripped from our kitchen (painted shiny red, nice!) and the walls aren't in nearly as bad condition as I'd feared (it is also a victorian building with original lathe and plaster). We paid someone £95 to stip the whole massive room, he did it in a day and I was so grateful, having grappled with it before myself, that I didn't have to do it. Well worth the money. If you live near Edinburgh I'll pass on his number...

You can still see a certain amount of lumps bumps and cracks even with wood chip paper. I have had several rooms stripped and skimmed and nearly every wall has some kind of hairline crack appear and I've had 5 star companies. These hairline cracks are unsightly and worse than wood chip paper. Skimming a room will not leave a decent line on the skirting board and it's hard to get a straight line when painting. To do it properly you will need the skirting boards taken off plaster then replace. If you have coving, skimming will make the coving less prominent and harder to cut in when painting. An old house will always have movement or settlement and the plaster will eventually always crack. An old house needs gutting back to the Brick and start again but I expect you won't agree but I'm not a builder only an old girl with experience of having things done. No easy answer.

I've got nothing to add to the discussion, but I now have Pulp stuck in my head.

"Deborah, do you recall,
Your house was very small,
with woodchip on the wall
And when I came round to call,
You didn't notice me at all."