You're a blessing to youtube, mate. I'm just getting back into the game after a 15 year hiatus. Have worked with people all up and down the country but never with anyone as thorough as yourself. As someone else commented, if I were to price for all this work, most clients wouldn't want to pay for it, but there we go. If they're happy to, it's great to see how it should be done. Painting's about 5% of the job!

Yes superb videos! A big thank you for demonstrating your skills and expertise. I learn a great deal from each of your videos!

Thanks for filming this and offering us all your expertise. Appreciated

well done somebody who knows what they are doing at last thank you

Thanks for these mate. Appreciate it

Good channel. Good master tradesman. I’m still learning at 73🇬🇧

Great video, exactly the help I needed. Love your channel!

Great video, very helpful. "Thank you for posting."

Brilliant video, could you tell me please if you did the filling over the top of lining paper? I have put my lining paper up but there are a few hollows showing through, so can I remove them doing what is shown in the video?

fantastic!

Hi thank you so much for all your videos and for sharing your knowledge in the trade. I'm a P & D student level 1 City & Guilds. I am in the process of doing my sisters spare room as a "let's see how long it will take me and what I could charge in future" the walls were lined and painted. The walls are bad, bellows, paint peeled in places and lots of holes. I have filled, sanded, reclined with 1200 and two coats of elmulsion. I have seams that are not stuck, wall still uneven, the wall looks crap!! After 4 days of work. Do I need to strip and start again?? Feeling very disheartened 😔 your advise would be much appreciated thanks Natalie

Appreciate you giving up your time to produce this and your other videos. Can you tell me the brand of stopping, or product, you used please?

As always a great video topic clearly explained. Please what is the effect of mixing the wall paint with the filler? Does it make the mix stronger, durable, is it easy to sand and how deep should it be used? Many thanks

Just done a job where I lined a wall with 1200 grade paper and used beeline ready mixed paste. Paper stuck lovely to the wall once dried out but did have a few hairline seams. So gave it its first coat of slightly thinned valspar emulsion and allowed to dry. Then filled the seams with toupret powder filler... usually use poly cell but had this to hand. Sanded down once dry and gave it a second coat of valspar Matt emulsion. Looked perfect 👌 2 days later seams have reappeared... seams were stuck down solid with paste so no lifting areas. Just wondering if you have any knowledge on what it could be. Forgot to mention I did mix a hard stop filler using the paint also like in your videos. I’m wondering if it’s down to the filler or maybe room temperature? If I’ve done something wrong please let me know as I’m interested to find the cause! Cheers mate. Your videos are truly very helpful to the seasoned decorator like myself haha!

Excellent tutorials buddy. I could do with some advise please. I stripped back a wall, filled and levelled out the obvious areas that needed it and now I’ve lined with with 1400. I’ve noticed inset areas where the wiring channel for the light switch would be, from the switch to the ceiling. I’ll painting emulsion on top of this like you have done on this clip. I am tempted to try the technique you have used here too, but I am concerned about the texture difference between the levelled area and the lining paper, will one look smooth and the other even more smooth? Thanks and keep the quality tutorials coming.

Hi. Is this the same filler applied on the wall rock thermal lining paper.

Thanks v much for this vid! My walls have had electrical conduit channeled into them (years ago)for wall lights. The channels (leading up from sockets) have been badly filled and the depressions are visible through the lining paper - could I level these off with a similar technique? Thank you 😊

The first 5 minutes were so therapeutic lol

Supper job!!!

I just spent 4 days stripping, sanding, filling and generally prepping my living room. The walls were in a bad state so I'm tomorrow going to hang my first ever wallpaper - in this case, I have 1200 lining paper, I'm starting to think I should have got 1400. To be fair, the walls are shonky but it's a victorian house, so expectations are that you'll see a bit of shonk. Alas, I don't have a spirit level, so I'm gonna have to hang virtically as there's still some lines left from the previous wallpapering lol. I wonder, given I'm painting, not wallpapering over this, will the vertical approach make any difference? P.S. Great videos, very thorough and actually very relaxing to watch :) Thank you!

Hairline cracks appeared in dot and dab skimmed plasterboard walls, six months after completion. The cracks are from top to bottom and are located where the boards are joined. No other cracks are evident and the boards are perfectly flat on their surface. The cracks have not continued to widen after a further three years and in all other regards, the walls are perfect. It’s such a pity that the cracks spoil what is a really good job. Would you recommend widening the cracks slightly and using hard stop filler to make good. I have considered using lining paper to achieve a really good surface that with hopefully ensure that the cracks will not reappear going forward.

witch filler did you used loved the video.

Is that for filling visible cracks coming through the lining paper? Can I use hard stop for filling gaps between the paper joins? I think you advised ro someone to fill POST the first coat of emulsion, is this the case?

Again thanks for the vids. I am confused. What is the difference between filler and 'hard stop filler? I can't get an answer from Google. Thanks.

So helpful before I tackle my walls. 👍🏻

Get an artex chaulking blade a tub of g tech same yourself hours,before filling paint area with zinsser gaurdz to stop paper from getting damp when filler drying out

What are you putting that mixture into?

Have you thought about buying some editing software?

Am I correct in remembering that you said you shouldn't use vinyl paint in hard stop please? Would you know why that is? Thanks.

Nice filling . Whats the de-humid for ( i understand what they do ) . Never seen that in a room thats being painted before

I've got some settlement between the walls and ceiling of a recent built extension- about 4-5mm wide.Can I use the easy sand polyfilla to fill these?

What’s in that mixture?

Hi. I followed your method and the filler has started cracking after painting. What can I do to alleviate this?

That is bloody painful

Is hard stop the same as what we term hard set like what is used for plasterboard i.e. Has set working time not air dried ?

What grade paper have you used looks like 1000

Preparation which should have been done before lining the walls. If the walls need a lot of prep I normally use a work light against the walls to highlight inperfections.

Here in the USA, we'd probably just use Sheetrock joint filler; it seems to work on everything. I like this approach better than re-plastering ; the tensile strength of the paper will help contain future cracks. This type of filling is also useful for painting wallpaper, which is worth doing if the surface underneath would get wrecked in the process of removing it; I like to go over the seams with mesh & thin mud too.

what does flash mean ? thanks

Love what you did. Just don’t know why you had to do it sir.

Someone of few words methinks.

Was the ending good? I fell asleep

Just mix filler . No need for the emulsion.

Mix it in a tub, loads easier.

Tedious presentation,too slow.......

Boring