2007-09-22 06:52:36 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Do It Yourself (DIY)
We've been doing this on the job for 45 years. Go to Home Depot and buy a pint of "Diff" you mix it with boiling water, use rubber gloves, cover the area with plastic and use a sponge mop. Mop the Diff on the wallpaper and go around the room, by the time you finish, go around the room again, you should see the paper comng loose. Wait a moment, then go around a third time. This should do it.
A steamer won't buy it and plain water doesn't do it.
2007-09-23 00:30:25 · answer #1 · answered by cowboydoc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I bought a steamer with a wall attatchment at Lowes for $55. A plastic scraper for $2 and a wallpaper scorer for $8. It took me and a friend about 3 hours to remove over 3000 square feet of 50+year old wallpaper. It took even the glue off with no chemicals or residue. That is way cheaper than using all those chemicals that you have to pay big money for, smell and clean off after the paper is down. With the steamer, all you have to do is pick up the paper. Plus you'll have a steamer to use for cleaning around house as it has other attatchments that came with it.
2007-09-22 14:05:28 · answer #2 · answered by MJ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That depends. If the wallpaper is new, you may be able to just pull it off.(Peelable wallpaper). Old wall paper usually has to be scored (with a tool available at hardware stores or Walmart), and then wet down with wall paper stripper before removing. No matter what type it is, you will have to wash all the old paste off the wall before painting.
2007-09-22 14:06:34 · answer #3 · answered by snake crafts 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Water, water, and more water. You can wet it down with a sponge, or a Hudson sprayer, then scrape it off with a putty knife when it is sufficiently soggy. Wipe down the underlying surface with a wet sponge to remove remaining glue as well as remaining shards of paper. With luck, the underlying surface has been painted so that the water will not damage it. Otherwise, you will have to fill gouges with drywall compound, sand it smooth, and prime it with a good oil base primer. A light sanding thereafter will finish preparation for whatever comes next.
2007-09-22 14:34:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
spray Diff mixed with warm water and it should come right off, I did an entire house with it. steam didnt work.
2007-09-22 14:05:44 · answer #5 · answered by MARC 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋