I need to take down 9 rooms of muti layer (many) wall paper down / off.
What short cuts or simpler way than soak, scratch and scrape method does any one have to take down the paper.
The little I have done has always been delagated. Not this time.
Does any body know of a mechanized method that works well.
Thanks
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The only effective method I have ever used is a garden sprayer and a 5 in one tool.
The job sucks, its messy and irritating, best of luck.
Sucks to be you. If you can, peel off whatever will come dry. The nice stuff with the thick vinyl face is easier in that the face peels away, you soak the backing, and it comes quickly (relatively). But with multiple layers, gut says you're going to use a little paper tiger thing until your hand falls off, you'll rent a steamer hoping it will shorten the duration, and you'll eventually use about 300gallons of hot water and a lot of elbow grease. There isn't a shortcut. Pray they used wall size. Good luck.
" Who's that trip-trapping across my bridge?" - Troll in the Three Billygoats Gruff
There's a tool called the Paper Tiger that you roll around on the wall to cut hundred of small slits in the paper, so water can soak in all over like it does at the edges and ends of a sheet. I haven't used it myself, but have seen good reviews of the thing in several places. Google for sources.
The paper tiger isnt much use in my opinion, The time it saves in getting the paper down faster is later wasted skimming the walls to cover all the little divots the thing makes in drywall.View ImageGo Jayhawks
Gonna orange peel or knock down the walls after the paper is down. One room gets Spanish lace teaxture. Repair the popcorn. Hard wood, ceramic tile and carpet the floors.
This house is just over 4k feet. The HO's ex papered every year or so for a long time.
Dare I suggest just ripping down the drywall and starting from scratch lol :)
I hate taking down wallpaper more then anything else.View ImageGo Jayhawks
At least I won't have to have anything to do with the painting. Whew!
I said rerock right off. You know where that went.
Where are the deligates when you really need them.
I guess it's soak 'n scape, but you can't blame somebody for hoping.
Thanks all.
Hire a scrub to do the jobs you dont want to
At least thats what my boss did
shame is that scrub was me....
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CAG you busy?
Hots and a cot.
sure....
First Class Air or train from Kansas city, I want 60 an hour in cash, no 1099 at the end of the year, and a fridge stocked with beer, of the foreign variety. Plus the meals and bed
I could forgo all of that for a good looking redhead:)
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Natural Blonde?
could work, but she cant be 5' and 300 lbs.View ImageGo Jayhawks
5'7" 100 pounds or so. Blond hair to the waiste. Sea green eyes.
Oh by the way age really isn't at issue here, is it?
Maybe you could line CAG up with the Guffey girls. Just don't tell him to many of the details! LOLAverage Joe says:
I'll wait here while YOU go wrestle the wild alligator.
HE WOULD ABSOLUTELY LOVE THAT KIND OF PROPOSITION!!!!! Glad you reminded me of them.
Now how to go about approaching him..... HHHHHHmmmmmm.....
HO had about 15 people show. There is no more paper. Just a few LM spots. Walls need to be washed yet. HO's problem.
I worked on the sofit and fascia. Shake shingled the gables. Sun burnt big time and thru the shirt if that don't beat all. Stayed on the scaffold all day. Tired now.
Pick Oreo up from the vet tomorrow. Doing A OK. WHEW!!!
Oreo?
Dog sick?View ImageGo Jayhawks
Yessir. Was. Very.
Thanks for your word.
Interasted in the Guffy girls?
Glad your dog is doing better,
Im going to say no to the Guffy girls because I do not know what they are, and from the tone of the post's Im not likely to change my mind :)
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Make that who and not what.
Guffey, a small town near me, has a cat for a mayor. Last year it was a dog or is it the other way around. Guess who the voters are.
I use about 8 or 9 Guffy Girls as help. These girls are true pioneer women in heart and mind set. They are surperb highest quality trades people. Balls to the wall workers.
The sound like very nice ladies with a lot of personality, and very good help to have around the job site....
I think I'll pass and keep the one I got.View ImageGo Jayhawks
They prefer to say that "they are women in comfortable shoes". They have NO use for men in a personal sense or nature.
What was wrong with Oreo?Average Joe says:
I'll wait here while YOU go wrestle the wild alligator.
Don't know. Neither does vet. Offered a bunch ifs, ands, ors and buts.
Miss Bosco though.
By the way the blond lady is some very good people and a GGM.
Nite. 0:500 start tomorrow.
Good luck with your exams.
make sure the house is insured, then......... Oh, never mind.Average Joe says:
I'll wait here while YOU go wrestle the wild alligator.
You've had the best idea so far.
Believe I found YOUR wild alligator.
Thanks bud
I'd rent a steamer. Most effective thing I've ever used for removing wallpaper. But at 9 rooms maybe you should buy one!
I've also done the score and soak thing with a garden sprayer and a water and vinegar mix.
Either way a pain in the keister, messy and time consuming. I feel your pain...
One thing that hasn't been mentioned but I think everybody knows is I hope the drywall was well primed before it was papered.
I doubt if this will apply to such a big removal unless you just have a few stubborn spots. We had success recently on some STUBBORN paper in a small bath by holding paper towel up against the wall and spraying it and letting it stay splatted on the wall to keep the vinegar/water mix soaking. We misted the paper towel occasionally and the walpaper began to see things our way.
Pull off what will pull off. Try soaking it with hot water/vinegar or hot water/Diff (follow directions on mixing ratios). Some of it will come off right away. For what is stubborn, get it wet and cover with cheap plastic dropcloth so it won't dry out. Let it soak ofr a couple of hours. Have the steamer ready for what is still stubborn.
Once it's all down, wash the walls thoroughly with hot water/vinegar or hot water/Diff. Doesn't hurt to rinse.
I don't like the tiger paper scoring tool because I don't think it speeds things up that much and then the paper only comes off in small pieces. But there are times when the paper is of such heavy vinyl that the scoring is necessary to have any hope of getting any moisture behind the paper.
Good luck.
Rich Beckman
Another day, another tool.
Lots of coats of paint under the paper.
Today is the start day.
I feel a migrain comming on. Better go back to bed.
You need a propane fired wallpaper steamer, some dropcloths or runners, a razor scaper, 6" taping knife and a putty knife.
Help would be nice. One person could run the steamer while the other cleans the walls up behind.
IMERC
Do what Rich Beckman said
I had done literally dozens of full houses in a row when all those forclosures happened about ten years ago or so for real estate companies. Giant house all wallpapered with every imaginable condition. I also dont care for the Tiger.waste of time. I tried it repeatidly.
After reading all the responses Rich saved typing time for me. USe Diff. Spend the money on it in gallon jugs.
I do have to say though in some rooms like bathrooms "nothing will help" other than lotta spackling ( or 1/4" rock over it ) when youre done.
Personally I hated steam irons unless theres some new kinda iron out there.
Have fun
Be.....someone that doest envy you
NAmaste
andy.....PS ...Beer really helps a lot
"As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is."
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Done!
Not the paper the method.
HO brought in a buch of help. I'm out of it.
Nothing on the schedual for the rest of the day.
Now that it is after 06:00 I gotta find out what happens.
Thanks for all the help. All of the recomendations were passed on to the HO.
I got lucky today.
Thanks again people.
BUY a steamer. We've done several apartments in old houses with lots of paint-coated wallpaper, and nothing else works. I've tried renting propane-fired steamers amd the electrical variety. The propane type terrifed my wife. The last (forever, I hope) job we bought a small steamer at a pro paint suppliers and it worked 90% as well as the official rental type. I think it costsless than $50. For the price of a few days rental you can own your own! Or better yet, buy a couple and put more people to work. On plaster walls, a sponge mop with a piece of scratchy stuff (green -- what is it called?) and a bucket works well in getting off the glue residue. I'm not sure about DW walls.
Also - get lots of contractor bags for the huge mess that will result and figure out some way to protect the floor. The sticky scraps are very hard to get off once they dry.
Me experience with taking down wallpaper found that the steamer method works the best. Not only does it get the wallpaper off, but most of the glue as well.
The times I've done it without the steamer I've found most of the glue stays on the wall after the wallpaper is removed. It's a pain to go back and remove the glue.
Good Luck