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Ok this time of year is the only time i get to decorate and make good my care home, as most of the residents are at family etc, so this year its the front bed room, this room had built in wardrobes straight across the main wall.
It had many thicknessess of wall paper and boarder and some coats of the paper where painted as well.
Ok i like to take everything back to scratch when i do something.
So the whole room has to be stripped.
Carpet fixtures and wall paper all had to go.
When i do a project i will always get the plasterer in to skim the walls and ceiling, even if they look like they dont need doing, at least this way i get a nice new surface to paint and you get clean lines.

Ok this is the room stripped out and ready for plaster next week.

Oh the room is 14ft x13ft

Nice job, B.

How long did it take to strip the wallpaper and how did you do it?

Are you going to do the plastering?

Ok the, first stage was to get everything out.
Then i stripped the first layers of wallpaper of * dry* to reveil the underside gluey paper
wet this down soaked it in fact then pealed this off also, i used very soapy water and used the sudds, they soak in the paper pretty good.

Then i just went round with an big old scrapper and finished off the difficult bits and stubbern areas.

As you can see i have found some old damp areas, this is why its good to go all the way back so you can see what needs doing, and what needs fixing,  To be honest if you have a chimney you sometimes find damp.
So this needs to be treated before any plaster can go on.
There is a paint i will use to key this area and seal it before Big Dave my plasterer comes round.

Fag i can plaster but, these days buddy i leave it to the pros.  in my case Big Dave.  He is brill. more on him later.

Ok the room prep has cost me in time 8 hrs in total, it is now ready for Big Dave.

Cool!

Did the majority of it just simply peel off after soaking?

95% came of no probs what so ever

I need a Badger.





V

Ok
Plasterer has been and given me a quote,
The whole lot including :-
walls
ceiling
edges
keying up
tiling round the sink
some chacing in, in another room
and to make good an area that used to be a window

========  £530.00

Ok this guy you say is cheap and can not be any good, but trust me he is the best plasterer i have ever had, and is included in my work team.  * see other post *


V i am high maintainance lol   

That's a bargain, B!!!!

seeing as im a bragain queen when it comes to my doer upper , I think its ok  not hugely cheap . But if he does the job well and hes everything you want , then its all dandy . 

It looks really good so far , cant wait to see the end result badgey !!!

Quote from: Badger on January 02, 2008, 12:32:34 PM
V i am high maintainance lol   

LOL you and me both my dear!


V

Ok plasterer started yesterday,
He keyed up the walls and ceiling with a strong pva glue, and covered cracks and other imperfaections with a plasterers tape, went round wall corners with beading and has drunk loads of tea !.

He has a tin of wd 40 with him, i will ask him what its for as i have no idea

Quote from: Badger on January 04, 2008, 09:19:19 AM
He has a tin of wd 40 with him, i will ask him what its for as i have no idea

Are you sure you want to know??


V

LOL
Ok i have asked him, and he made me feel very very small and stuuupid.
I thought it was a new tip or something, like add it to ya * muck * and it makes it stick better or something like that, ohhh no.

Its to keep his tools from rusting !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.  I had to ask didnt i.

Anyway room is almost done, will take some pics when hes done, and then onto the next stage, decorating

Ok room plastered, dry and ready for paint.
The colours have been chosen by the resident so dont shoot the messenger.
I will put an undercoat on first, this is a 50-50 mix of white matt paint.

That looks decent.

What room is that? There's a baby sink in the corner...

Quote from: propertyfag on January 07, 2008, 03:12:06 PM
What room is that? There's a baby sink in the corner...

What is the deal with those sinks?? There used to be one in my first flat down in Bournemouth (in addition to the sink in the bathroom) ... I'd forgotten all about it!


V

No idea what it's about. It's very clinical...

It is a care home people, i wouldnt have one.  Its part of the Government white paper on how and what regs you need to meet to have a disabled person in your care

Its not that bad ! seeing that it is for an old person !


Good jobbie badger

Ahh good stuff, B.

Fifi69: Where have you been, bruv?

Quote from: Badger on January 08, 2008, 09:35:56 AM
It is a care home people, i wouldnt have one.  Its part of the Government white paper on how and what regs you need to meet to have a disabled person in your care

Interesting, maybe that's why the dude had installed one in my flat.


V

Quote from: propertyfag on January 08, 2008, 10:09:39 AM
Ahh good stuff, B.

Fifi69: Where have you been, bruv?

ahhh just busy 

Doing what? Don't be shy, we're all friends here 

Well my sister has just moved and my mums just about to put her house n the market . So ive been doing the 'family thing' and helping them , because they are both clueless . 

Also doing work on my own house ... actually seeing progress ! Which is refreshing .

So busy busy .

Ok guys the finished room.

As you can see its not fancy, its just pleasant, its a tenants room and no one said it had to be gold leaf, so simple, cheap and fast where my requirments and thats what i got.
The room experiance tells me, will have to be done again in 2 years.





Ok the price

Total skim ceiling and walls £530

Paint  750ml satinwood       £7.49
         10L Matt undercoat  £ 11.48
         2.5L Matt wall          £14.98
         5 L Matt wall            £24.98
Carpet 14x13                   £74.00
underlay                         £84.00
Runners                          £ 31.84
delivery                          £29.00
fitted                             £43,00

tot                                £807.77

Time in all
stripping and room prep 8 hrs
plastering to dry          3 days
painting  to dry           7 hrs

The carpet as you can see is dead cheap, this was because i got an end of roll and an extra 20% of in the sale, bargain.


So there we go peeps a room from start to finish
hope you enjoyed my little project
Badger over and out

That looks really good, B.

Thanks a lot for sharing all that. I'm really rubbish at DIY, so I wouldn't have known hardly any of that.

You got any other DIY projects lined up?

Useful stuff that, plastering was cheap! Cheers for sharing


V

Yes faggy,
My next big project will be the garden log cabin and pool adjustment. that will be done in spring, but the prep will start sooner, ie concrete etc.  will do a running commentry on that as well.
Apart from that the outside of the house is going to be renderd flat to take away the old terralene look, i love flat smooth render on houses.  And the guttering needs to be done.
At my other place i need to get a new boiler installed and outside rendering also, oh and a new gate.
So not to much at all !!!!!

YOU HAVE A POOL?