However, the good news is - the walls are now fully stripped and we can finally return the steam stripper to the hire company. What should have taken three days has taken a whole week!
Actually, I think it should be made illegal to paint over wallpaper - of any kind, but especially vinyl wallpaper - with vinyl paint. All the stripper seems to do is melt the paint, making a gooey mess. And when the paint comes off, you still have to strip the paper beneath!
Not sure if you can see it properly, but believe me, that piece of paper is hanging on by a horrible stretchy, melted plastic mess!
It has taken hours and hours carefully chipping away at the painted paper to get it all off.
The walls - completely free of wallpaper at last.
Anyway, with a whole load of effort and hard work, we have finally got rid of all the paper and we are now back to the original wall covering - in the case of one bedroom, brown, white and mustard yellow (as mentioned yesterday - the pics are now uploaded so you can see the colours - and the carpet in the walk-in wardrobe); in the other, green. Actually, the green was beginning to grow on me - anything to avoid looking at more paper covered with vinyl paint!!
A bit blurry, but the colour is evident.
We even laid the radiators on their sides, so the wall behind them has also been stripped.
As you can see, the wall has been damp at one time. Thankfully it is historic, so not much needed as to remedial work. We are going to paint it with a stain inhibitor to make sure it doesn't bleed through the new wall covering. It is a different story in the walk-in wardrobe in the rear bedroom, but that is the subject matter of a different post.
In addition, OH has managed to rewire the hall light so it actually works.
He pulled out the wall plugs where the stair rail had been, so we are ready to fill the holes. Because the walls are actually made of concrete, the holes are bigger than they might have been, but not to worry - very soon it will be filled in, then covered with new paper and/or paint.
He was also a great help with the wallpaper stripping - especially when I lost the will to live!
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