Wall Paper Removal
Can anyone suggest someone for wall paper removal? How much does something like that normally cost? Just one medium living room. I have read it is hard and annoying to do, so for the right price I would rather just have someone do it.
Can anyone suggest someone for wall paper removal? How much does something like that normally cost? Just one medium living room. I have read it is hard and annoying to do, so for the right price I would rather just have someone do it.
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5. If and only if the goop doesn’t work, go buy a steamer.
Just do the following:
1. Buy (a) a paper tiger (handheld wallpaper scoring thingie) (b) a gallon of the blue wallpaper removal goop from Home Despot (c) a couple of really big foam paintbrushes (the grey things, reall cheap) (d) a wallpaper scraper (handheld, it has a blade that scrapes off the paper) and (e) rubber gloves.
2. Score the everliving hell out of the wallpaper with the paper tiger. You don’t have to press very hard – you just have to break through the surface so the good can penetrate. Just keep going and going until the paper is scored all to hell.
3. Put on the rubber gloves. Using a foam paintbrush, slather a ton of the blue goop on the paper. Let it sit there for a long time. Don’t let it dry out or anything but definitely go longer than the recommended amount of time. The whole idea is to let the goop seep through the scoring marks into the glue.
4. Put the gloves back on. Peel off the paper using the paper scraper. You may be able to pull it down in sheets with the rubber gloves depending on the paper.
You will spend hundreds of dollars to get someone else to do this for you. Or fifty bucks to do it yourself.
I’ve tried the gunk that they sell at Home Depot at it was a waste of grunt work.
I then bought a small steamer and it worked easier and better than had imagined. The older wallpaper came off in chunks without damaging the walls while the more modern wallpaper was pretty much able to be pulled off from the bottom up in one long pull without much need for the steamer.
I’d recommend a $50 steamer over paying someone a couple of hundred bucks who may or may not do a good job or damage your walls.
The steamer way is easy. Turn on -> wait for steam to occur -> hold on patch of wall for about 30 second -> test with scraper how easy it comes off. If it’s easy, keep going. If it’s not coming off with ease, hold the steamer on for another short while until it comes off with ease.
Yes annoying, but no, not hard to do. We pulled down about 7 layers of wallpaper ourselves, just used wallpaper removal solution (you can use diluted downy instead) and a paper tiger. Didn’t even use steamers.
If the wallpaper is modern (i.e. synthetic and not actually paper) it will probably come off very easily. We had one layer of modern paper that pulled down in sheets, but then 6 more layers of old wall papers that was glued up with wheat-based glue (or at least that’s what our neighbors told us) that took a bit of elbow grease.
I bought a steamer at home depot and it worked well.
Have you given it a quick try first? The paper in all but one room in our place pulled off instantly. The other stuff can be scraped off by using a rented wallpaper steamer. It is actually kind of fun. Agree any day laborer can do if you show them how. Otherwise, plasterers often have experience with this.
don’t go overboard like the folks at 31 Joralemon Street.
That’s too thorough.
It’s pretty much grunt work – you could hire casual labor to do it if you’re around to oversee.