Hi All, So, I'm having difficulty with stripping a concrete cavity wall and wondered if any of you can provide some much needed advice? We've just bought a new place and one of the walls in the bedroom was wall papered which I have managed to successfully remove. Underneath was lining paper which I have pretty much got rid of too. But... In my scraping frenzy I have since scraped off varying layers of paint uncovering different colours on different areas of the wall - pink, grey, blue and terracotta red, leaving a rough uneven surface - even after sanding with coarse then fine sand paper and washing. Seeing all these different colours, I'm starting to worry that I may have scraped off one layer too far and taken the plaster off and gone straight through to concrete. So... How do I know if I have taken the layers off down to the concrete? If I have, what's the solution? Re-plastering? If it's okay and re-plastering isn't required, what is the most effective way to get the walls nice and smooth? Thanks very much. I eagerly await your advice!
When you say 'concrete' wall do you mean that the house is built by concrete shuttering i.e. a Wimpey-no fines house?
Hi Jitender, But I'm a complete novice and have no idea what you're asking! :-s Sorry mate, feel free to talk to me like an idiot. I am one.
These houses aren't built using standard brick, but built by using form-work. A mixture of cement and stones are used to bind the stones together. They were built after the war 1940-1950s and are mostly local authority owned. this is a pic of a house:
Can you post up a pic or two. If you still have paint present, I doubt you have gone through the plaster, if that is indeed what the walls are coated with, my house has cement rendered walls, hard as nails but a complete bar steward to paint over, have to use lining paper everywhere.