Wallpaper Removal - Part II

We spent last Sunday finishing the wallpaper removal in the kitchen we started the weekend before. What a mess. I officially hate wallpaper. Might as well tell you what seemed to work before I get into a rant about wallpaper.

What we did was to score the wallpaper using the tiger claw (might be paw) wallpaper scorer, and sprayed that area with water. Like I said in a previous post, It didn't seem to help when we used the wallpaper removing goop you sprayed on. Occasionally we would pull good chunks of the wallpaper off, but more than not the top layer would come off first. When this happened, just spray the area with water again, wait about a minute and the substrate comes off easily. It all seemed to depend on how much adhesive the person applying the wallpaper put on. Behind the fridge was a nightmare. There was so much adhesive that after the paper came off I would scrape again to get a scraper full of the adhesive too. The only down side to using just the water I saw is if you have a textured wall behind the wallpaper. If an area was saturated the texture under the wallpaper would be a little soft. This is because the texture is made from joint compound. Anyway, I just had to be a little careful with the scraper.

Rant:
There should be a place in hell for people who put up half a house of wallpaper. In this section of Hades they will take down wallpaper for eternity. I talking about paper that tears every 1/2 inch. Where they're sittin' there picking the stuff off the wall with your fingers because some super genius has used so much adhesive that it only comes down in small sections. Wait, that was something I had to do.

Wallpaper Removal - Part I

We started to remove some of the wallpaper in the kitchen. We've been using some spray on liquid goop that is supposed to help loosen the adhesive. It didn't seem to be working. I even tried the tiger claw thing with the removal agent, and that didn't seem to help. In fact it kinda made it harder to remove large pieces of wallpaper because it tore more often.

I hate wallpaper. Evil tulip wallpaper

Lots of water on a rag seemed to help a bit. We would wet down the wall with a really wet rag. It just comes down to a lot of scraping. I'll post more as things progress this weekend.