Suitable paint

Hi,

Just taken over a 2 bed council flat and intend to buy it in the near future.

The council gave me 125 pounds towards decorating costs.

It had all been heavily wallpapered for obvious reasons so in my mind in order to paint I decided to strip off all paper.

As you can imagine this has revealed all kinds of problems with walls.

The council have agreed to make good and skim the really bad walls but will not skim the half decent walls that are still patchy with a skim of paint which I cant remove.

I do not want to apply lining paper to these walls as when I come to buy it I will skim all walls.

I do not want to get involved in sanding and filling walls against skin of paint etc as too time consuming and could possibly buy after a year then as I said earlier will skim all walls.

My question is can I get away with applying 2 coats of paint which will hide the patchy layers of paint already on walls.

Is there any paint on the market which will allow me to paint walls temporarily and which will hide uneven surface.

Surely in this day and age they may have as we seem to have solutions for all kinds of problems.

Any advice would be welcome, feel Ive taken on far too much here, started as a tennant now feel like Im bloody buying the thing with all the work and effort Im putting in to make it good.

thanks

 

Phil,

Fair comment and I must admit I agree and have thought of that.

However I am a tenant up until I qualify to buy it and wanted to live in it and to make sure everything okay before committing myself.

So why pay out approx 500 quid as a tenant, it just seems wrong.

I need to consider your suggestion as an option.

Thanks for taking the time to advise..

 

hi chippie,

say approx ten.

have been quoted 25 quid a wall

 

fair comment, worth thinking about!!

 

okay i got it lol