Day 4

We carried on stripping the wall with a door to the front room. This was a piece of cake compared to stripping the chimney wall. As you can see from the picture, it's clearly a different type of wall. It is in fact plaster board and it's a swine to strip. We've stripped it down to the chalky layer, so fingers crossed that it can be replastered (I've been told plasters can re-plaster anything).

The chipwood wallpaper was so well glued meant that we could not strip it off and leave the papery layer of the plasterboard on.

This plasterboard material also produces a load of dust when you're scraping. We've found that cleaning up after every stripping session (ahem!) makes life easier.

This day also proved to be eventful as our old steamer packed in. So I nipped off to B&Q to get a new steamer.

This steamer shaped like a dog cost us about £30 and it's decent, though it does leak a bit after about 30 mins of use; should've bought a Bosch steamer (though the one they had there was not as powerful as this Black & Decker number).

It' now a matter of time before we start stripping the wall with the long radiator on which means that I am going to have temporarily remove the thing...