Has anyone got any ideas about getting paint off walls?
Stripping paint off walls will be very messy, slightly toxic and will probably damage the plaster in places. Sanding, while less toxic, a mask will still need to be worn, paint dust will be all over your home and belongings, even if they are covered. Will be very difficult and time consuming. I would just settle for scraping and sanding the loose paint off the walls. Sand the walls (by hand, actually, not with a power sander — using as heavy a grit sandpaper ) in the spots where the paint is actually peeling. The goal is to remove the loose paint while leaving that paint which is ‘well-stuck’ in place. Then use joint compound (the stuff you use to plaster sheets of drywall together, easily findable in any DIY store in huge buckets) and smooths a very thin layer of the joint compound over (at minimum) the places where you have sanded the paint off … more often over the entire wall surface. In essence, you are “replastering” the wall. The joint compound will seal in the old paint and
