Help removing a LAYER of wallpaper?
Question:Okay, before you tell me all the normal methods, please read my question.
In my computer room, the previous owner had wallpaperd halfway up the wall and put a border across the top of the wallpaper (and part of the wall)... We assumed the top half on the walls, which was white, was painted... Today I started trying to remove it so I could repaint. The border is half on the white "wall" and is coming off almost whole.. The matching wallpaper will not come off for anything. So I was trying to pull it off around the light switch and realized when I gouged the wall that the white "wall" is a layer of wallpaper over top of a layer of wallpaper over top of (i'm guessing) the wall.
What I would like to happen in a perfect world is that I want the ugly crap to off and leave the white stuff that we all thought was wall. If I use all the normal techniques (My fave is vinegar and water... it's better than downey)... will it pull all the layers off? Or will the rest be okay?
Answers:
it's all or none. You might try a heat gun and see if the top layer lifts from the under one, good luck
I've removed many wall-papered walls by renting a wall paper steamer. It's slow, tedious, but it works! Or hire an "expert" in that field of work.
you cant just take off one layer. the vinegar will work, but you are going to end up taking it all off, and you should cause wallpaper sucks
at this point in time... if u really would like to go thru the trouble of pulling off wallpaper after wallpaper after wallpaper... then it will b a long tedious job. R u ready for that? At this point, if i were u... i would jst go ahead & put a primer on the walls & then paint over it. Unless u have $ u can always resheet over it which inturn u would have to pull u'r sockets out etc... my folks did it over old paneling since the paneling was nailed & glued to the wall board which would had ended in new sheet rock soooo
prime & paint. pay some1 to do it. rent a steamer & take the time or re-sheet...
i think that will b u'r choices.
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