Which tradesman?

[honeydew44]

Apologies if I sound very silly but I'm not great at all things house/DIY and am currently looking at renovating a long hallway. It's papered at the moment so would need stripping and possibly plastering but after that I'd like some of those wall panel things installed. I asked dh what sort of tradesman would do this - joiner, decorator etc - and embarrassingly neither of us knew. Anyone cleverer than me offer any advice?

Could you strip it yourself? If that was possible then you might just need a plasterer (if the wall is really bad after stripping) and then a carpenter/joiner to do the panelling. Otherwise you'd need a decorator, plasterer and carpenter and things would get rather expensive!

I agree strip it yourself
get it plastered
then a carpenter

then paint it yourselves.

a) you could break it down into stages. I would do it this way - and get DH to do the decorating.

Get a decorator to strip the walls
Then a plasterer to plaster
A joiner to do the panelling
Then finally get the decorator back

or
b) hire someone to do the lot.

I’d look in the local papers for a handyman. One of those ads that says no job too small. Or since plastering and joinery is involved, a local builder may be able to quote on the whole job.

or) checkatrade - I’ve found some great tradesmen on there. Just need to put your postcode and job description in the search box. There are probably some that multi-task if you want the job doing as a whole.

Thank you all, we can definitely do the stripping. Not so confident on the painting!

some panelling is so fake it is very cheap - you get stripwood from B&Q and glue it on to look like panels. So a painter / decorators might be able to do that too, meaning you don't need a carpenter.

That means, you have 2 steps

1. strip back old wallpaper and plaster if needed - Plasterer
2. add fake panelling and paint - decorator.