Bruce wrote
| The vinyl wallpaper in my kitchen has been painted over with
| white emulsion by the previous owner.
| I sense that this may be a swine to strip back to plaster.
| Am I right or will lashings of water & a hand paper stripper do
| the job?
| 1970s house, so I expect the base plaster to be mostly intact!

Vinyl paper will often pull off in almost whole sheets, if you start at an
edge, leaving a slightly furry base layer which is usually ok for
wallpapering or tiling on. It won't take emulsion paint though.

Owain