The main challenge in the stairway was not with the wallpaper but the working heights as well as prepping and painting the skylight. The removal of the grasscloth was relatively easy, without any serious damage to the walls. Despite of the thickness, the surface of the wallcovering is porous enough to allow the removal solution to penetrate. Grasscloth wallpaper, as the name implies, has a heavy texture and resembles a cloth made of grass looking fibers. The hallways and stairways had a grasscloth wallcovering.
Another primer after that brought the walls back into good condition and ready for paint. The crew primed the damaged surfaces with low odour alkyd primer and skim coated the surfaces smooth. At least not without damaging the drywall. Despite our hard work, and after using the usual tried and true removal methods, the wallpaper was almost impossible to remove.
SCOPE OF WORK FOR DRYWALL SKIM COAT INSTALL
If you install wallpaper without any priming, future removal is almost impossible. The wallpaper removal was predictable, except in one of the bedrooms, where the previous homeowner installed wallpaper on raw drywall. We started with removing the wallpaper and prepping the walls in the first two bedrooms. Before long, the customer felt comfortable with the painters and added all the bedrooms, the hallway and stairway to the project. This Ever Growing Painting Project in South Rosedale The concept of value and great service is well rooted here. The average Rosedale homeowner is a great customer and well educated on the “ins and outs” of hiring reputable service companies. During the summer you can see busy home painters working on tall ladders and contractors vans parked on the streets. Most homes in Rosedale are large, over 100 years old and the homeowners keep them in top repair, as expected in the area. Contractors love working in Rosedale and for very good reasons.
Most homes here are Victorian and Georgian with the occasional tudor style architecture. Despite being so close to the city, there is hardly any traffic driving through the old streets and neighbourhoods. Rosedale is in close proximity to downtown Toronto and is one of the most desirable areas to live in. This lovely home was located on Castle Frank in the neighbourhood of South Rosedale. As is the case with many small jobs, the scope of work kept growing daily and about a month later, it became one of our biggest projects of the year.
It was a last minute request but since we thought it was a small job, we were able to fit it in our schedule. The homeowner just moved in and initially called Ecopainting to just remove some wallpaper and paint two bedrooms. It involved way more than painting, in fact most of the labour hours went to wallpaper removal and the wall repairs afterwards. Rosedale Project: This featured project in Rosedale started small and ended up being one of Ecopainting’s most succesful projects.
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