Substandard decorating job

[Glastoun]

Short version: deccy did a pretty awful lining-and-paint job on the top half of our bathroom walls, loads of air bubbles still there at the start of the second day which were just painted over in a hope that they would disappear, and the ones that wouldn't were just filled over with Easifill (not cut out, filled over).


So now we have air bubbles on the wall, including some that only appear when the shower has been running; caulking in all of the internal corners has cracked and crazed, along with some of the caulking between the paper and the tile trim; and edges and corners of paper coming loose from the wall (only been up two days). And we have a lumpy ridge around the tile line where they just papered over the edges of the bonding plaster that they used to level the bottom half of the walls for tiling.

Any way to fix this without taking it all down and starting again? Is there any of this that I'm being unreasonable about?

 

[dcdec]

It doesn't sound unreasonable. There's lots of variables that could be applied such as price charged, lowest quote perhaps?, bloke from the pub did it? However, to answer your question a) Unless you live in a palace a half height bathroom wall area is small enough to skim fill alleviating the need to line, b) i'd expect an eggshell or K&B paint to have been applied, c) it sounds like you need to strip it off and do A and B.

 

[Chri5]

Lining is an absolute no no in a bathroom that isn't auto vented via a timed or humistat fan- even then its iffy, at best.