Stripping back wallpaper is easy. Stripping back wood panelling is easy.
Stripping back ancient paint to the original plasterwork without damaging it too much IS NOT.
We have spent months of weekends on this and the progress is painfully slow. We started with a regular scraper for the paint…
This one was the best one! And it was insufficient for the purpose.
There were places where they just added a border and kept multiple layers of borders below:
The cheap and nasty carpet in the lounge peeled back to reveal the insulation.. somewhat degraded newspaper from 1980…
The sheer number of types of wallpaper which had been painted over at various decades to get to the generic magnolia painted paper which adorned each room was amazing, here’s a sample:
The blue one is fairly old as it sat next to the fireplace in bedroom 2 which was hidden behind a fake wall.