How much to have a professional remove painted woodchip?

[FumblesandFrolics]

DH has removed 1 small section on DD's bedroom and I can't take the moaning anymore or the realisation that the process is ruining the plaster board underneath!

In my experience wood chip is used to disguise dodgy walls!
You could get someone in to remove, but chances are you will find the wall needs sorting anyway.

Just keep telling him how he will feel a sense of achievement once he's got it all off, and save your money for a reskim.

I agree. We have just removed woodchip from 2 ceilings and its taken 5 evenings probably 3 or 4 hours each night but it is so much easier if you have a decent steamer and good (large) scrapers. We're having both replastered now .

If your H can keep going, use the money to skim it once its removed.

We found the scoring we had to do in order for the steamer to work, left terrible criss cross lines what needed skimming anyway. Whoever invented wood chip wants lynching!

You can get professional strippers to do it but obs cheaper to do it yourself.

Agree you will prob need the wall skimmed when it's all off.. Terrible stuff.

Have just done af full flat of this which 3 other papers underneath.. Buy a paper scraper which scores multiples holes on wall. Good steamer and go. Time consuming but doable. The plaster was fine, tiny bit of patching required. If Money is tight dont pay someone,

Also if you start steaming at the bottom of the wall and work upwards, by the time you get to the top it is usually already loosened.

We got away with having our de-woodchipped walls lined with lining paper - much cheaper than replastering and it looked great.

Nasty stuff.

Thanks. It's one room, but fairly large and L shaped so another 5 walls to go.

The wall itself isn't too bad underneath, but the layer of purple gloss underneath the chip paper is leading us to think a re-skim probably is in order as it is not coming off all over, but just in bits so the wall looks bumpy.

It's going to be a very loooong job!