In message , Chris French
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In message , Phil L
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"Chris French" wrote in message
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I need to strip wallpaper from plasterboard walls. Standard wallpaper, not
vinyl, an inpreinted sort of vertical strip pattern., direct to the
plasterboard, no skim.

No option really, this is the old bathroom I'm turning into bedroom. Walls
mostly plasterboard over lathe and plaster and brick walls (I assume to
get a nice flat surface for tiling?). It was tiled up to about 4 feet all
the way round. As I expected trying to remove the tiles left the
plasterboard in such a mess, that we just ripped the lot down.

Plan is to replace the plasterboard. and then get the whole lot skimmed

So have the rest of the walls covered in paper. Any tips on removal?

Steam it and then try to pull off rather than scrape?

The alternative thought is to leave paper on, replace plasterboard , not
skim and then lining paper over the whole lot. But then there is the
messing about with taping/filling/sanding.


I can't make head nor tail of this post.

Sorry for not being clearer.

And really, the question I was asking was just the one about stripping
the wallpaper of the plasterboard.

The rest of it was extra info, because IME of uk.d-i-y a bald question
tends to get 'why do want to do that' responses as well , sometimes
totally off at tangent replies not really relevant to the situation. So
I try to give bit of background/context for the question.
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Chris French