The Poolie Bunker

my week has so far been spent removing 10 year old(at least) woodchip from half the rooms in the house. what a nightmare,especially the stuff thats been in direct sunlight.
I hate woodchip.

It is evil stuff.

I have spent ages removing nasty white formica fitted wardrobes out of the bedroom, which left a big gap where the horrible cheap polystyrene coving goes. So the coving needs removing, which then means I have to chip all the coving glue off the walls. Cement I think they used. And of course that means I have to also strip all the wallpaper off the ceiling. Before replastering the mess left from the glue removal and repainting.

70s decorators have a LOT to answer for.

In our last house that we bought a few years ago there was woodchip in every room. And it had all been painted several times.

The steam stripper didn't budge it at all. The only thing that worked, and worked damn well too actually, was scoring it with a knife, spraying copious amounts of that wallpaper remover stuff from B&Q and then using some funny looking wall paper stripper tool that looked a bit like an iron with two fk off sharp blades on it. Then it came off dead easy and so well that we were able to paint the walls when we were done.

I fkin hate woodchip.

In fact, when we were moving house this year I made a point of looking in each house that we viewed whether or not there was any of the bastad stuff in there that I would have to strip off.

a decorator mate of mine told me to douse the walls with water mixed with fabric conditioner,before steaming it off. not sure if its any easier but me clothes feel softer!
mind its just dawned on me if he was my mate he'd be doing it for me...

a builder mate of mine said "get a JCB" with a big ball on the end of a chain then.........

as a former applicator of this wonderful stuff [covered a multitude of sins]
water and more water is the only answer spend all day soaking it and an hour stripping it easy peasy