Hoping for your top tips and product reccomendations here. I have taken a few weeks off in August to try and get the house sorted a bit. Mainly painting and decorating (every room seems to need something) - but I am spectacularly bad at this sort of thing and I hate prep. We can't afford to get some one in.
I think I need a few key products atm - the main one is some kind of filler for walls dammaged from nails and hooks and wall shelves that have been moved. The plaster is sound in most areas. I have tried those tubs of ready made fine filler - but they never seem to quite work as well as I want. Ridiculously (you may laugh it's pretty embarassing) my main refernece for a magic solution is Gilmore Girls when Rory left her flat at Yale and "spackled" all the wall holes and damage with some magic product, but I have never been able to work out what the equivalent is in UK. Also I am hopeless with anything in gun/tube form.
Second product I need is like filler but on a larger scale - we have an area in the bathroom where a shelf was painted in and removing it has taken off several layers of paint back to plaster. I think I need to seal the plaster, use some kind of fine filler or plaster, sand back, put a water proof primer on and then paint? Is that right?
Thirdly we have had a damage to the lower parts of door frame wooden moldings from bike being dragged through. Is there a wood filler thing that I can use and sand into shape? (my idea is then to get some lengths of brass l-shaped angles to protect these areas).
Lastly we have some small areas above the picture rail that were damaged in a loft conversion (7 years ago!) that I have not worked out how to paint over. Is it sand, seal, primer paint again or do I need to do anything else?
I hate this kind of thing and am not good at it, but we have got to the point where however hard I clean, the surfaces are just too scruffy or damaged to look nice.
Please don't say we should hire someone, we simply can't afford it!