I have tried vinegar in the guest bathroom. It seems to work somewhat. However, it appears that the sticky side of the wall paper (white) remained attached to the wall while the decorative side peels right off.
Should I simply paint over the reaming sticky side with the paint (or possibly with white primer first) OR should I try to remove the white, sticky side of the Wall paper as well AND with what?
Any suggestion?
Try DIF. You can purchase it at the hardware store. I prefer the bottle of concentrated DIF. Mix it with water and put it in a paint roller pan. Then take a rolling brush and brush it on the wallpaper to saturate it. Let it sit for about 5 minutes (making sure it stays saturated) and then peel it off with a scaper. For difficult wallpaper, they also sell devices that scour the wallpaper with tiny holes. This helps the chemical seep down to the adhesive.
October 27th, 2011 at 11:57 am
A heat gun!
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October 27th, 2011 at 12:42 pm
hot water and a sponge. glue should come right off with the wallpaper
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October 27th, 2011 at 1:12 pm
Mix a solution of fabric softener and hot water 1/2 and 1/2 and put in a spray bottle. Spray the walls and start peeling. You can soak a rag and rub the wallpapered walls as well but the spray bottle is less messy. My wall paper was 20 years old and came off like a charm. Just clean the wall after with TSP (TSP is just the name of the product. I guess it is only available in Canada. It is a all purpose heavy duty cleaner in a granule form. It removes wax, grease, wallpaper residue, cleans concrete etc. I don’t know what an equivalent would be that you could purchase in the US.) to remove the glue residue.
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http://www.thefrugallife.com/wallpaper_remove.html
October 27th, 2011 at 1:45 pm
Try DIF. You can purchase it at the hardware store. I prefer the bottle of concentrated DIF. Mix it with water and put it in a paint roller pan. Then take a rolling brush and brush it on the wallpaper to saturate it. Let it sit for about 5 minutes (making sure it stays saturated) and then peel it off with a scaper. For difficult wallpaper, they also sell devices that scour the wallpaper with tiny holes. This helps the chemical seep down to the adhesive.
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October 27th, 2011 at 2:02 pm
There’s a device sold at paint store or just paint departments such as in WalMart……it’s called a Paper Tiger..or just Tiger. It is a rolling device with little points. When it goes across your wallpaper it puts little holes in in. Then follow with a generous application of wallpaper remover, DIF. It’s a good idea then to immediately put plastic sheeting over the wet wallpaper and let it sit overnight. That way the wallpaper remover can completely penetrate (if you put enough holes thru with the Paper Tiger) and the plastic kept the solution moist.
The next day the paper should come off easily. If not add more wall paper remover, be patient. You may use a broad putty knife to help remove the paper, but if you are scraping, use more remover. The last bet is a steamer. You can rent these and you hold the "plate" over the wallpaper for a few moments, then test to see if the paper let go. It’s a hot, nasty job. Better the remover.
THEN, you must wash the wall very, very well. The wall must not feel like it has any "oatmeal" still on the wall. That’s old paste or remover. If you paint over the paste or remover, the paint will be bumpy and probably won’t stick. So you may end up washing many times until the wall feels clean.
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October 27th, 2011 at 2:32 pm
Try a sequence, and see what works:
Warm water & soap
add vinegar, if this doesn’t work.
Then Trisodium Phosphate (TSP, available in any hardware store)
If it’s really stubborn old stuff, you may have to rent or buy one of those electric wallpaper removers, which will get off almost anything.
It’s always a guessing game depending on how old the glue (or paste) is, what type, and how long it’s been up there.
Most professional people that do this use the electric steam-type removers, since it works best of all.
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October 27th, 2011 at 3:12 pm
Rent a Sreamer for wallpaper it falls off the walls and then you just peal it off and wash down the wall
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October 27th, 2011 at 3:58 pm
I paint for a living and have removed a lot of wall paper. I do not really like the job because you have to remove that glue as well as the top wall paper layer and it is not always easy. I use a steamer that you can rent at home depot and a mud knife. But at times, the glue is too hard to remove then I use more warm water and abrasive sponge and am usually successful. You can also try to sand it off but as usual risk removing the outer layer of drywall.
I do not recommend using primer over the wall paper or the glue layer although I have.
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October 27th, 2011 at 4:23 pm
First of all DO NOT use a paper tiger it will put thousands of tiny holes in the wall and they will need to be filler prior to painting. I have been in the painting business for 36 years and what I do is check if it is vinyl or paper if vinyl remove top layer by simply pulling it off in sections with out water just lift a corner and pull. To remove backer paper it is the same as removing paper type paper. Lay news paper on the floor cover it with a drop cloth, get a garden or deck sprayer mix 1 cup fabric softener to 1 gallon water and saturate the backing paper or wall paper,( I do one wall )let it rest for 15 minutes then re saturate. let it rest for 10 minutes then wet 1/4 of the area and it will strip off using a 6 inch drywall knife. Keep the area ahead of you wet as you proceed. If it is a glossy type paper sand it first with a orbital sander to break the finish so the water will penetrate then follow the above directions. Removal of paste residue. wet walls and let sit. re wet and use a stiff bristled scrub brush to remove paste keeping it wet at all times. It makes a mess but I can strip a average size bedroom and depaste it in 4 hours
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