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getting old wallpaper off?
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i hate wallpaper stripping especially when its been painted over.apart from steamers and soaking the walls with the stuff from b&q etc is there any concoction or tricks you can use.
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3 Comments
June 22nd, 2010 at 6:43 am
Sorry but the only way I have ever been able to get wallpaper off is by steaming, soaking and using a PaperTiger. It is a small tool that puts rips in the wall paper and can generally be found any any hardware store or someplace like Wal-Mart or KMart. Personally I would rather paint a design on a wall that put up paper. It is soooo much easier just to paint over a design even if you have to put three coats of paint on to cover it up than to strip old wall paper which is extremely labor intensive which I am sure you are aware of. I bought an old house once that had 18 layers of wallpaper on the walls! I was getting pretty fearful as I went through the layers that I was going to start seeing daylight through the walls! Good luck and you have my sympathies
June 22nd, 2010 at 10:04 pm
Wet with water and washing up liquid, leave to soak, scrape, wet some more, leave to soak, scrape a bit more.
Sorry it’s the only way, get your friends round, stick the radio on and promise a crate of beer and a takeaway, it’ll be off in a few mintues!!! (Really works)
June 25th, 2010 at 4:54 pm
Hire a steamer and make sure you “scratch” all the surfaces first to allow the steam to penetrate ! ! !