[Closed] Pollyfilla Smooth Over

Personally I would remove the wall paper, clean with sugar soap, fill and sand accordingly then use the smooth over x 2 coats followed by your emulsion. That's what we did with our 'world of anaglypt' house. A bit of a faff perhaps but it's a good job when done right

I'd remove the wallpaper too. Unless it's true "woodchip" it shouldn't be too bad.

Then you can fill any small holes & scratches that you made with the paper scraper & either paint the wall with emulsion, or paper it with your choice of wall covering

cheers tankslapper......did you do much with the smooth over? any finished pics?

Fantastic for filling cracks etc but for trying to cover airtex or textured wall paper forget it - you'll need to do loads of sanding afterwards.
My solution for really bad walls would be 1200 gauge lining paper then paint it or perhaps warmaline then lining paper then paint.

Josh

Took a bit of work but the secret, as in all things decorating, is prep. Scrape, remove and steam off the paper, use sugar soap to neutralize the glue then fill and sand (I used as black and decker mouse sander)

No pictures, but the results are pleasing. If you want a super smooth finish its a re-plaster job. Looking at the ceilings and walls here in our living room they're as good as a replaster job without the expense or fuss.

It was OK but I wouldn't use it again, next time ill do it properly.

For 6sq m I deffo wouldn't bother. It'll cost you a fortune, be a huge amount of work and take ages.

You'll get an ok spread to do that for 50 quid at the weekend. Will take him 2 hours from arrival to leaving and you'll get the best surface for painting on.

Leave it 2 or 3 days, then 2 coats of 50/50 white matt emulsion, 3 hours apart. Then 2 finish coats the next day, 4-5 hours apart.