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remove wallpaper that has been painted over?
Hi
I want to redo a room in my Cape Cod home. It has cheap white paint over cheap light green paint over ugly wallpaper. What is the easiest way to get it all down so I can paint it? There are ugly lines showing through the paint, seams I guess. Half of the rest of the house WAS done in paneling with no drywall behind it. I fear finding that in this room too! The ugly lines are even on the ceiling. Tips? Steaming? A razor? Nu Wall over it? (worked very well on the paneling upstairs) THANKS Tara |
remove wallpaper that has been painted over?
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remove wallpaper that has been painted over?
"TaraDanielle" wrote in message om... Hi I want to redo a room in my Cape Cod home. It has cheap white paint over cheap light green paint over ugly wallpaper. What is the easiest way to get it all down so I can paint it? There are ugly lines showing through the paint, seams I guess. Half of the rest of the house WAS done in paneling with no drywall behind it. I fear finding that in this room too! The ugly lines are even on the ceiling. Tips? Steaming? A razor? Nu Wall over it? (worked very well on the paneling upstairs) THANKS Tara A sponge and a 4 inch putty knife. Sponge on get an area wet and then let the water do its job. Takes a while but the stuff will come right off. Not much clean up for painting either. I just removed 3 rooms from wallpaper hell recently. Just do not let it dry out. I started at the top and worked down. Better when it is warmer. |
remove wallpaper that has been painted over?
A wet sponge is fine ONLY if the paint allows the moisture through to the
paper! "SQLit" wrote in message news:gneUb.45021$F15.43626@fed1read06... "TaraDanielle" wrote in message om... Hi I want to redo a room in my Cape Cod home. It has cheap white paint over cheap light green paint over ugly wallpaper. What is the easiest way to get it all down so I can paint it? There are ugly lines showing through the paint, seams I guess. Half of the rest of the house WAS done in paneling with no drywall behind it. I fear finding that in this room too! The ugly lines are even on the ceiling. Tips? Steaming? A razor? Nu Wall over it? (worked very well on the paneling upstairs) THANKS Tara A sponge and a 4 inch putty knife. Sponge on get an area wet and then let the water do its job. Takes a while but the stuff will come right off. Not much clean up for painting either. I just removed 3 rooms from wallpaper hell recently. Just do not let it dry out. I started at the top and worked down. Better when it is warmer. |
remove wallpaper that has been painted over?
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remove wallpaper that has been painted over?
way too much money
also too much mess, I have a 3 year-old and a dog When we get new siding we hope to add a lot of insulation downstairs Tara PJx wrote in message . .. I vote new drywall thruout the house. And in the process reinsulate the exterior walls at a minimum. PJ |
remove wallpaper that has been painted over?
PhotoMan wrote:
A wet sponge is fine ONLY if the paint allows the moisture through to the paper! "SQLit" wrote in message news:gneUb.45021$F15.43626@fed1read06... "TaraDanielle" wrote in message .com... Hi I want to redo a room in my Cape Cod home. It has cheap white paint over cheap light green paint over ugly wallpaper. What is the easiest way to get it all down so I can paint it? There are ugly lines showing through the paint, seams I guess. Half of the rest of the house WAS done in paneling with no drywall behind it. I fear finding that in this room too! The ugly lines are even on the ceiling. Tips? Steaming? A razor? Nu Wall over it? (worked very well on the paneling upstairs) THANKS Tara A sponge and a 4 inch putty knife. Sponge on get an area wet and then let the water do its job. Takes a while but the stuff will come right off. Not much clean up for painting either. I just removed 3 rooms from wallpaper hell recently. Just do not let it dry out. I started at the top and worked down. Better when it is warmer. Go to the local Hope Depot or Wal-Mart and get what is called a Paper Tiger. This scores the wallpaper and allows the water to get behind the paper to dissolve the glue... Also, get one of the solutions designed for wallpaper removal. They dissolve the glue much faster than water does, and you really will need it to get all of the glue off the wall so that paint will adhere properly. |
remove wallpaper that has been painted over?
My wife and I tried this approach on a bedroom and it almost ended the
relationship. It's very time intensive and messy. For the next room we went to Home Depot and bought a wagner steamer for $50 bucks and finished the house with much happier results. That was the best $50 bucks I ever spent and without it there would still be plenty of the previous owners wall paper throughout the house. I would strongly suggest not using the chemicals and instead use a steamer. If you don't want to buy one you can most likely rent one but I think you'll spend the same money either way. Bob Go to the local Hope Depot or Wal-Mart and get what is called a Paper Tiger. This scores the wallpaper and allows the water to get behind the paper to dissolve the glue... Also, get one of the solutions designed for wallpaper removal. They dissolve the glue much faster than water does, and you really will need it to get all of the glue off the wall so that paint will adhere properly. |
remove wallpaper that has been painted over?
I have the all time best and cheapest, least hot way to remove wallpaper.
Instructions must be followed to the letter. Garden sprayer with hot water and Ivory liquid dishsoap. Tiger claw/paw the whole wall and spray it down with the hot water/ivory mixture. Critical step - sit down and drink a whole can of soda/beer. then use a putty knife to take paper off the wall. DO NOT touch until the soda/beer can is empty or it won't all come off. use same sprayer to apply TSP to the wall when the paper is off and wipe the wall down. NOW paint away. Unless you need the steam to warm up the home anyway ;-)) -- __________________________ Claudia "Bob Lauer" wrote in message ... My wife and I tried this approach on a bedroom and it almost ended the relationship. It's very time intensive and messy. For the next room we went to Home Depot and bought a wagner steamer for $50 bucks and finished the house with much happier results. That was the best $50 bucks I ever spent and without it there would still be plenty of the previous owners wall paper throughout the house. I would strongly suggest not using the chemicals and instead use a steamer. If you don't want to buy one you can most likely rent one but I think you'll spend the same money either way. Bob Go to the local Hope Depot or Wal-Mart and get what is called a Paper Tiger. This scores the wallpaper and allows the water to get behind the paper to dissolve the glue... Also, get one of the solutions designed for wallpaper removal. They dissolve the glue much faster than water does, and you really will need it to get all of the glue off the wall so that paint will adhere properly. |
remove wallpaper that has been painted over?
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 00:32:54 GMT, "Claudia" claudia@ ccwaterpolo.com
wrote: I have the all time best and cheapest, least hot way to remove wallpaper. Instructions must be followed to the letter. Garden sprayer with hot water and Ivory liquid dishsoap. Tiger claw/paw the whole wall and spray it down with the hot water/ivory mixture. Critical step - sit down and drink a whole can of soda/beer. then use a putty knife to take paper off the wall. DO NOT touch until the soda/beer can is empty or it won't all come off. But beer works better than soda, doesn't it? ;) |
remove wallpaper that has been painted over?
UGH I got the paper tiger, spent three hours removing about 3 feet
times three feet (behind a couch) to find that there is no drywall. Just plywood. The paper doesn't peel off in sheets, it comes off in tiny chips. So I'm gonna avoid all of this work for no reason, just sand the wallpaper lines, prime (maybe twice) and paint. Coral color I think :-) Tara |
remove wallpaper that has been painted over?
Tape and compound the wallpaper lines.....use alcohol base primer or Kilz,
etc. then regular primer then topcoat. Use 1" roller to get a little texture into paint surface. Art "TaraDanielle" wrote in message m... UGH I got the paper tiger, spent three hours removing about 3 feet times three feet (behind a couch) to find that there is no drywall. Just plywood. The paper doesn't peel off in sheets, it comes off in tiny chips. So I'm gonna avoid all of this work for no reason, just sand the wallpaper lines, prime (maybe twice) and paint. Coral color I think :-) Tara |
remove wallpaper that has been painted over?
The lady that does and has done all our wallpapering in the room uses the
following method and it works very well as I have tried it myself in my sewing room. Bucket of warm water, 2 cups vinegar or more, couple squirts of dishsoap, a roller brush (the kind you paint with). Wet the rollerbrush in the warm water and go over the wallpaper until well soaked (give or take 5-15 min) repeat if necessary (the wettening process) then use a spatula and peel off. I have tried the tiger claw but found with the vinyl coated wallpaper it made lots of holes and yes the water got behind it, but when I got ready to pull it off I had to do it in bits and pieces cause the claw had torn the paper. I rather let the wall wet and then pull off in one sheet. Hope this helps, purple "TaraDanielle" wrote in message om... Hi I want to redo a room in my Cape Cod home. It has cheap white paint over cheap light green paint over ugly wallpaper. What is the easiest way to get it all down so I can paint it? There are ugly lines showing through the paint, seams I guess. Half of the rest of the house WAS done in paneling with no drywall behind it. I fear finding that in this room too! The ugly lines are even on the ceiling. Tips? Steaming? A razor? Nu Wall over it? (worked very well on the paneling upstairs) THANKS Tara |
remove wallpaper that has been painted over?
Tara, I tried the paper tiger in one of the houses I helped with -
same situation - wallpaper with multiple coats of paint (gloss, of course) on it. What a nightmare! We ended up using the paper tiger over the seams, scraping any loose stuff off with a sharpened putty knife, and basically sanding everything. I'm too much of a perfectionist so I mudded and sanded everywhere. But then after the primer it looked good. Light and Dark Green sponge paint :-) Heck, that covered things so well, I didn't need to do all that sanding! Best of luck. Sometimes I wanna bop people for painting over stuff! =) Gina (TaraDanielle) wrote in message om... UGH I got the paper tiger, spent three hours removing about 3 feet times three feet (behind a couch) to find that there is no drywall. Just plywood. The paper doesn't peel off in sheets, it comes off in tiny chips. So I'm gonna avoid all of this work for no reason, just sand the wallpaper lines, prime (maybe twice) and paint. Coral color I think :-) Tara |
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