On Mar 18, 11:25 pm, Dave wrote:
tester wrote:
I have painted wood chip to get off several rooms - be nice to know a
good way of doing it - easy being a good way 
Equipment required.
A cold room (very important that the room is cold and no ventilation,
you have a maximum of 3 weeks to do this, before the weather warms up),
& lots of steam.
A tiger claw (it is a device that has three sets of spiked wheels are
set well out of track, so that they penetrate the paper and make holes,
by tearing through to the back of it.
Lots of steam.
A pinch of washing up detergent.
Lots of steam.
A scraper that has a ground edge something like a wood chisel and lots
of steam. Use the scraper with the bevel to the wall. With lots of steam.
Go over all the wood chip with the tiger claw a few times.
Raise the humidity in the room by using as much steam as you can.
Kettles, pans of hot water,steamers, or anything that will emit steam
will do (keep all doors and windows closed and do not allow anyone to
enter or leave).
Before you feel yourself being affected by the humidity, go over the
walls with a solution of water and washing up liquid. Wait until you
feel that you are in the tropics and then start to strip off the paper.
Provided you have left enough paths through the paper using the tiger
claw, you should now be stripping paper off the walls as if it was
normal paper.
The tiger claw makes the path for the water to get to the adhesive.
The water with the washing up detergent assists the steam/moisture to
penetrate the paper if there is anything that might repel the water (eg
smoke, grease etc)
The humidity wets the walls.
Last time I tried this, I was amazed at how quickly the painted wood
chip came off the walls. A tropical room is the answer.
Dave
I think you're making meal of it to be honest. I've never had any
trouble with just a standard wallpaper steamer - at any time of year -
with the optional use of the tiger claw.
I usually find woodchip comes off in sheets making it a doddle to
remove - the backing that's left behind practically falls off with the
use of the steamer.
Mathew