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Posted by Gwen Morse on June 13, 2006, 9:29 pm
First of all, thanks for the suggestion to check a locksmith for the
special door locks that I wanted. I have locks that work the way I
wanted since going that route.
I have another question.
I had ugly wallpaper in my eat-in-kitchen. I tore it down. It wasn't
the normal "strip-able" wallpaper, and I only found that out when it
was too late.
I don't really want to cover the resulting wall with wallpaper,
although I will do that if it's absolutely necessary. I really prefer
to just fix up and paint the wall.
The situation is this: There's some sort of weird wall paper backing
that's still glued firmly to the drywall, in weird sheets/patterns. It
didn't come off neatly, nor did it "stay behind" neatly. I've tried
scoring it with a paper tiger and using Diff. This stuff won't come
off. When thoroughly saturated, it reluctantly comes off more like
damp paint than damp paper. It's quite possible that old wallpaper was
imperfectly stripped off and then painted over, leaving the resulting
mess behind. It's actually two walls. One wall is almost all drywall
with just little (stubborn) fingerlength-sized flakes left behind. The
other wall is almost all paper, with handprint-sized gaps down to the
drywall.
A visiting houseguest whose reasonably handy saw it and suggested I
might just...err...mud over the whole wall, but, I'm not sure I could
do that and have it come out as smooth as real drywall. I'm also not
confident I could just take down the old drywall and put up fresh
boards.
What are some options that just require elbow grease and tiny
financial outlays (like, less than $100)? I haven't tried steaming it
yet, but, I don't know that a steamer will work where the score/Diff
process failed.
Gwen
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Posted by on June 13, 2006, 9:55 pm
I've had my share of awful wallpaper, last house had 3 layers (one with
foil in it), then a layer of paint, then 3 more layers. Got it down
with a steamer but it takes - get this - almost a minute per sq ft. 30
seconds of steaming in one place, plus scrapy-scrapy.
The other method is to wet it to soaking and keep it that wet for a few
days, I've seen this done by my painter contractor, and it does come
down, after a while I guess it gives up !
I hate wallpaper. you don't mention how much your place is worth, if
it's a valuable/upscale place, I strongly recommend getting that paper
off however it has to be done because painted-over wallpaper looks like
... painted-over wallpaper.
Good luck !
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Posted by ameijers on June 13, 2006, 10:32 pm
> I've had my share of awful wallpaper, last house had 3 layers (one with
> foil in it), then a layer of paint, then 3 more layers. Got it down
> with a steamer but it takes - get this - almost a minute per sq ft. 30
> seconds of steaming in one place, plus scrapy-scrapy.
>
> The other method is to wet it to soaking and keep it that wet for a few
> days, I've seen this done by my painter contractor, and it does come
> down, after a while I guess it gives up !
>
> I hate wallpaper. you don't mention how much your place is worth, if
> it's a valuable/upscale place, I strongly recommend getting that paper
> off however it has to be done because painted-over wallpaper looks like
> ... painted-over wallpaper.
>
If you don't mind having to inventively retrim the windows/doors, and extend
all the outlet and switch boxes, you could always reskin the walls with 3/8
" drywall. The windows/doors will require either extending the trim, or
buying or making new casing with a kerf for the extra offset. As long as you
only have single-gang electric boxes, the extenders are easy to install.
(I'm sure there are double-gang extenders, but the big-box doesn't carry
them.) Of course, this assumes you are up to mudding and taping the new
drywall.
aem sends...
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Posted by Steve B on June 13, 2006, 10:58 pm
> I've had my share of awful wallpaper, last house had 3 layers (one with
> foil in it), then a layer of paint, then 3 more layers. Got it down
> with a steamer but it takes - get this - almost a minute per sq ft. 30
> seconds of steaming in one place, plus scrapy-scrapy.
>
> The other method is to wet it to soaking and keep it that wet for a few
> days, I've seen this done by my painter contractor, and it does come
> down, after a while I guess it gives up !
>
> I hate wallpaper. you don't mention how much your place is worth, if
> it's a valuable/upscale place, I strongly recommend getting that paper
> off however it has to be done because painted-over wallpaper looks like
> ... painted-over wallpaper.
>
> Good luck !
>
I would take a root canal or a kidney stone any day to messing with a lot of
wallpaper. There's just no graceful way of doing it.
What I did find worked the best for me in removing about ten rooms of
wallpaper is two things .............. a sprayer, and a good scraper.
The sprayer was one of those cheap $20 one gallon garden sprayers, and the
scraper of my choice was a derelict metal kitchen spatula that had just the
right edge and spring.
Secret is to let the spray sit long enough to do its work and get into the
glue.
Secondary secrets are using a paper tiger to get the water into some
wallpapers, and using slightly different strategies depending on the
wallpaper (and glue) you are dealing with.
Like I say, there is no graceful way of doing it, and if I had a choice,
I'll take the root canal or kidney stone ANY day!
Steve
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Posted by Banty on June 14, 2006, 8:04 am
roger61611@yahoo.com says...
>
>I've had my share of awful wallpaper, last house had 3 layers (one with
>foil in it), then a layer of paint, then 3 more layers. Got it down
>with a steamer but it takes - get this - almost a minute per sq ft. 30
>seconds of steaming in one place, plus scrapy-scrapy.
>
>The other method is to wet it to soaking and keep it that wet for a few
>days, I've seen this done by my painter contractor, and it does come
>down, after a while I guess it gives up !
>
>I hate wallpaper. you don't mention how much your place is worth, if
>it's a valuable/upscale place, I strongly recommend getting that paper
>off however it has to be done because painted-over wallpaper looks like
>... painted-over wallpaper.
>
>Good luck !
>
While we're talking about removing wallpaper - I have a string wallpaper up in
an entranceway. I'd like to remove it and get a grasscloth there instead. Is
there any difference in removing the string wallpaper? Is it more difficult
than regular wallpaper?
Banty
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