swee'pea99
Legendary Member
Plan A, in trying to retrieve my bay window...
...has always been to start off with Peelaway, which did such a cracking job on the mouldings in the hall:
Now, though, when I'm finally able to take a proper look at it, I'm a tad concerned about what might actually lie beneath 150 years of paint. It all looks a bit....crumbly?
These houses were thrown up in the mid-late 1800s very much to a budget, and it wouldn't be the first evidence of cheap, low grade materials I've bumped into over the last 20 years.
I really don't know now whether doing the peelaway might just introduce me to a world of pain, and whether it might actually be more sensible to just do a bit of basic sanding of the loosest and worst sections, then slap on a couple of new coats of Mr Dulux's finest, accepting that it's never going to be perfect.
Any thoughts? Especially related experiences. Thanks in anticipation.
...has always been to start off with Peelaway, which did such a cracking job on the mouldings in the hall:
Now, though, when I'm finally able to take a proper look at it, I'm a tad concerned about what might actually lie beneath 150 years of paint. It all looks a bit....crumbly?
These houses were thrown up in the mid-late 1800s very much to a budget, and it wouldn't be the first evidence of cheap, low grade materials I've bumped into over the last 20 years.
I really don't know now whether doing the peelaway might just introduce me to a world of pain, and whether it might actually be more sensible to just do a bit of basic sanding of the loosest and worst sections, then slap on a couple of new coats of Mr Dulux's finest, accepting that it's never going to be perfect.
Any thoughts? Especially related experiences. Thanks in anticipation.
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