Hello,

I am now the proud owner of a house that hasn't had the best care for
the past few years. I am pretty close to being finished with painting
and repairs, however, there is one thing I need to do that is going to
be a nightmare.

My hallway has wallpaper in it that some lazy idiot painted over. The
house had two wallpaper borders, which I was able to remove, however
one took over five hours and the other took around 4 hours. The
wallpaper in the hallway probably covers at least 10-20 times the
surface area than the two borders had together.

I removed the borders by using a tool with little teeth that ripped up
the wallpaper and then sprayed a chemical called DIF onto it.

Now, what would be the best way to go about removing the painted on
wallpaper? I tried the teeth tool on a small part of this, but it looks
like that paint is preventing it from doing what it needs to do. Can
anyone offer me any suggestions? Also how much do you think it would
cost for a professional to come in and remove it?

The teeth tool doesn't work for me either. I used a heat gun to soften
the paint then a 4" scraper with sharp edge to remove the wallpaper
underneath (top layer of the paper). It comes right off. Then using
hot water and a sponge, wet the underlying brown part of the wallpaper.
Use same scraper to get it off. Then I clean the residue with a
cleaner called Awesome that I get at the dollar store. Then it's ready
to spackle.