Distemper paint

Thepillowman

Renovating a 1960s bungalow at the moment while painting interior walls the old paint started coming off with the roller. Someone told me it was probably painted originally with distemper paint.
Some rooms I have stripped the paint off of it comes off in long strips with a scraper. Left with one room which paint is coming off in small sections and the rest won't come off. Does anyone know of a way of removing this paint other than scraping. Another person said to paint it with wallpaper paste should make it easier to strip off. Any ideas welcome. Sorry for the long rambling post.

listermint

Sander to get most of it off. If you wallpapers paste it you'll have a crap surface.

You could use liner on it. Which would involve wall papering with liner and then painting. Much better finish

So options are.

Sander.
Or
Liner
Or
Plaster the walls.

dok_golf

You would still have to scrape off the loose paint prior to lining.

dok_golf

My bad, just saw he already had scraped off the loose paint