Stippled ceilings and bad walls - best option

SheepTurtle

Hi,

We bought a house last year that was built in 1980 but it has stippled ceilings and wallpapered walls. When we moved in we stripped one wall of wallpaper in the dining room and it looks like the plasterboard behind the wallpaper is like a cereal box. There's no plaster as such in between like my mams house built in the 1950s where you can just peel the wallpaper off nice and smoothly and you see the pink or red plaster behind it. When we stripped this wall the actual wall came off in clumps of cardboard. This wall will eventually be removed and has a big cupboard in front of it so we just rewallpapered it. However having inspected the rest of the house all walls have this behind the wallpaper!! Some of them we can paint over as it is Lining paper and no lumps and bumps behind it but in our bedroom there is awful shiney wallpaper on 2 walls and it's all lumpy behind it like it was stripped before and rewallpapered. My question is will we need to strip it all and get it replastered (but I don't know if it will work as its like the inside of a cereal box when the paper comes off and will it stick? ) or do we need to pull the existing plasterboard off and put up new ones and then skim?? Also our bedroom ceiling is stippled but really patchy in parts and I hate it! The other rooms it's more uniform and clean cut and I can make do with it in those rooms but our bedroom one is awful. Can we skim over it or does the whole thing need to come down? We haven't got it tested for asbestos. Bearing in mind we are living in the house and can't move out for works can I get some of your advice on my questions?

Thank you

raxy

Sounds like our house when we bought it. We stripped & got all walls skimmed. I regret not just pulling it down & starting again.

Yor our sitting room I pulled down the stippled ceiling. Gor other rooms we overboarded with new plasterboard.