What is so bad about woodchip wall coverings?

[petersham]

I have a large expanse of it in prominent parts of the house. It has been caked in inoffensive coloured paint by previous owners several times over. I am still undecided as to whether I should live with it. Rest of the house has been brought up to date in small ways but the sheer volume of woodchip has put me off tacking it.

I wouldn't invest too much hope in the polyfilla smoothover to be honest - I have used it for small areas and it is hopeless. I used the ronseal version tho, although guessing polyfilla is much of a muchness with this. the Ronseal one says it's only for use on smoothing imperfections that are up to 2 mm deep - useless!

Removing wallpaper is a pig of a job and one that if I did another renovation I would get someone else in to do. I did a whole house in a week, in a heatwave, with a steamer, and it was hideous [shivers at thought].

The small specks of wood are I think what gives it the name woodchip.

We're in rented but it's all over DS's room, sometimes when I'm putting him to bed I pick bits out