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Ok, i'm now onto the wallpaper removal of a different room. It is all
old and cracking and when I'm taking it off by just picking at it, the
paper comes off in small flakes. I was thinking of spraying and
scraping, but I was also thinking that it might be possible to just
take an orbital hand sander and just go over it with a medium grit
paper. Has anyone done this? - removing wall paper is one of my LEAST
favorite things to do.

I would suggest against sanding

what is the paper installed over? wall board or plaster

I use

http://www.zinsser.com/product_detail.asp?ProductID=17
http://www.zinsser.com/product_detail.asp?ProductID=20

http://www.zinsser.com/ProjectDetails.asp?ProjectID=23