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Is it time to finally say good bye to the god awful wallpaper that's covering your walls? If you want to save some money you could remove the old wallpaper yourself instead of paying for it. You won't know how hard—-or easy—-removing that old wallpaper will be until you try. Here are a few guidelines to help you tackle the job.
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TERRIEMAE said
on 3/29/2008 i've been successful removing wallpaper by using a mixture of water and liquid fabric softener. mostly fabric softener, put in a squirt bottle. but first score the wallpaper with a scoring tool,one of those things that makes holes in the wallpaper so that the softener will soak in.it's just a little round item with plastic teeth that fits in the palm of your hand and you just swirl it around and around on the wallpaper. sorry that i didn't know the name of it, but it can be purchased at any store that carries wallpaper. also you can hold a wet warm cloth in a seam of the wallpaper, if the paper seam has loosened up or worked loose, that means its the kind you paint over, if you wish. it won't wrinkle, bubble or shrink with paint. good luck. hopes this helps. terriemae
lulucamel said
on 2/28/2008 Wow, he made that much harder than it had to be. Just spray water on wallpaper (a LOT of water), wait 10 minutes, peel off.
lulucamel said
on 2/28/2008 Wow, he made that much harder than necessary. Spray some water on it== a LOT of water== wait 10 minutes, peel it off.
sugamomma said
on 2/15/2008 Hi dont bother with all that expensive stuff they sell at the store to remove wall paper its a bunch of crock. All you need do is get a bucket of warm water pour about half a bottle of white vinegar in stir and wipe across your wallpaper. Dont go crazy and saturate the wall now just wet it enough to get the vinegar to penetrate the wall paper. Then let it sit then go in and peel off that wall paper like your peeling a banana thats how easy it will come off. If some is still trying to stay do the process over again it does work and you wont be taking off half the wall along with your paper or inhaling chemicals either. Good luck and pass it along to friends and family.
wallpapernomore said
on 10/28/2007 USE A STEAMER!!!! I tried everything to remove wallpaper - hot water, hot water with vinegar, dap, fabric softener etc. and all were a disaster leaving tons of glue that I then had to spend hours scrubbing off. I then purchased a wallpaper steamer unit for 60.00 - the BEST 60 I have spent in a long time- took the wallpaper off smoothly and cleanly with no gluey residue left and took just a couple of hours to finish rather than the days it was taking with other techniques! Also, rather than scoring the wallpaper, I found that the top layer pulled readily away so I pulled that off and then steamed the backing of the wallpaper and it came off easily and saved the hassle of scoring the wallpaper and the potential damage to the drywall - so forget all of the solutions - just use a steamer! http://www.wagnerspraytech.com/portal/wagner_705_spray,43321,747.html is a link to the one I used