plastering over wood chip style lining paper

[harvey]

hello folks..

just bought a new place and the walls are lined with a wood chip style paper. (popular in the sixties and seventies i think)
can i employ someone to plaster straight over the top of it or should i strip it off first?

your advice is greatly appreciated!!

with thanks in advance,

harvey the carpenter.

 

[Pug]

strip it. definately strip it. on no account plaster over it.

 

[rockhardsolidplastering]

mate its always best to strip every morsall of paper but and there will be plenty tell you different i have on rare occasion succesfully plastered over painted woodchip but as i say it can go pear shaped it would be the spreads call

 

[skimmin2day]

As above mate,dont do it.or be fooled by the 1 week coursers.

 

[bodplasterer]

I know your pain as i too once had a house covered in wood chip and it is the devil of all paper to strip it takes a while to get off but you do need to get it off even if it means taking off the backing plaster.

 

[topmark]

Just remember this: PAPER + PLASTER = CARPET :

 

[southernmonkey]

my house was the same , i found the best way to get it off was to use a wood plane all over it then just give it a quick soaking and off it comes , if it's on a ceiling just overboard it

 

[minty]

All ways remember these words "PLASTER ON WOOD AIN'T NO GOOD-PLASTER ON PAPER ALWAYS A DISASTER"

 

[Nisus]

hello folks..

just bought a new place and the walls are lined with a wood chip style paper. (popular in the sixties and seventies i think)
can i employ someone to plaster straight over the top of it or should i strip it off first?

your advice is greatly appreciated!!

with thanks in advance,

harvey the carpenter.

Read this:

https://www.plasterersforum.co.uk/plasterers-forum/index.php/topic,3449.0.html

 

[harvey]

Thank you fellas,

Always great to get the opinion of a commited pro...
The internet is a wonderful thing.

My mate reckons you can hire some kind of roller which will spike loads of holes in the paper therefore making the steaming process more effective.

Cheers,
h

 

[christ]

u got to scrape all the chips off and the then score the paper horizontally or diagonaly to the left and then to the right so u create diomand shapes ... before steaming. if i was u i would buy a heavy duty scraper with replaceable blades and a pair of work glove's because your gona get blisters. those rollers with spikes on wont be any good on this occasion.

 

[oasis]

Thank you fellas,

Always great to get the opinion of a commited pro...
The internet is a wonderful thing.

My mate reckons you can hire some kind of roller which will spike loads of holes in the paper therefore making the steaming process more effective.

Cheers,
h

yea you can buy one for like £10 they are gr8! as in i keep my'n by my bed side as i would be a gr8 tool to fend of any intruder!

 

[hendrix247]

You could try scratching it with a mono float and then soaking it with a paint roller

 

[spunky]

if all else fails you could dab it tight as poss and mechanically fix through the dabs when set

 

[smudge]

hello folks..

just bought a new place and the walls are lined with a wood chip style paper. (popular in the sixties and seventies i think)
can i employ someone to plaster straight over the top of it or should i strip it off first?

your advice is greatly appreciated!!

with thanks in advance,

harvey the carpenter.

new to forum oldskool plasterer get it off all off elbow greese and a decent lab

 

[southernmonkey]

do it my way trust me it's the quickest way.....trust me i'm a proffesional lol

 

[simplybesty]

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