"Phil L" wrote in message
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AL_n wrote:
Has anyone found wallpaper stripping solution worth using?
For example: http://tinyurl.com/3yrsg2h

I've also heard of people using vinegar. Is that any good? What is the
dilution ration?

I've also seen mention of using laundry fabric softener, (diluted).
Has anyone found that to be effective?

Al

All you need to strip wallpaper effectively is water and a small amount of
normal washing up liquid, if you have any to hand.

Water alone is usually all that is required except that people are
frightened to 'put too much' on and I think they fear water getting into
electrics etc.
You start at the top of the wall to be stripped and *thouroughly* wet as
much as you can reach, then do all the bottom part of the wall the same.

Leave for ten minutes and exactly the same procedure again, *then* start
stripping - all too often people damp a small patch about a foot across
then furiously start hacking away with a scraper and then give up because
'it's too hard' - all that is required is to soften the paste on the back
of the paper and this is why 2 or more soakings are required - the first
one doesn't get through to the back of the paper where the paste is, but
the second and sometimes if it's a thick paper, a third soaking will.

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Phil L
RSRL Tipster Of The Year 2008

Totally agree.

I have taken to using a pump up garden sprayer on a mist setting, and
wetting a whole wall at a time until it is thoroughly soaked. Then it peels
off easily. Soak the next wall while stripping the first and little time is
lost. Only gloss painted and vinyl coated paper won't soak through easily.
The vinyl part of the latter often peels off on its own anyway: for gloss a
perforating roller is required.

S