Wallpaper removal???
Question:what is the easiet and fastest way to remove wallpaper?
Answers:
Water, water, and more water. A sprayer or a sponge works well to apply it; let it soak, and then scrape with a putty knife, being as careful as you can not to damage what lies beneath. When the paper is mostly gone, wipe down the walls several times with a wet sponge to remove the last little bits of paper.
Usually just plain water works very well. For tough wallpaper, that does not respond to the sponge, steam is the trick. You can rent a steamer from a home center or rental yard, its about a foot square hold it over an area for a little while, and the wallpaper should peal off. Don't want to rent, damp cloth and an iron would work, just be careful not to burn yourself.
Water is the best as the chemicals smell and can be very messy. The steamers are a joke! Water puts the paper up and water will sure bring it down.
I use a large sponge from Home Depot. These sponges are large and very much unlike what you would use in the kitchen. Get it soaking wet and wash the water onto the wallpaper. SOAK IT! Pick up an edge or, if there is a seam that is available, start from there and start pulling it up...easily and slowly. The easier and slower, the larger the section of paper!
Good luck and it isn't as hard as it may sound.
I very carefully slit the wallpaper without messing up the wall underneath and sprayed it with water and kept it wet for a bit and then pulled and scraped. There are products out there that you can spray on the wallpaper but I didn't have that much problem getting the paper off. The house was built around the time of the civil war or antebellum but very little. There were layers and layers of wall paper. So once I got it soaked, it was easy to pull. It was also interesting to see what the other paper looked like. In the bathroom the bottom layer was pink with pink flamingos. I would have guessed 50's but it actually had to have been put on in the 1800's.
All the answers that you got were almost right about using water, but the best thing to use with the water and I have an Uncle who use to own a paint store andI neededto remove old wall paper and he had me use water with viniger added to it, I think thre viniger helps break down the glue. I would try 1 part viniger and 2 parts viniger in a spray bottle and don't really soak it but get in pretty wrt and let it stay on for about 10 to 15 mins. and then try scapping it off. They also sell at Home Depot a special wallpaper removing tool that's just for removing the wallpaper and they also sell a wallpaper removing kit wit every thing you need to remove wallpaer in it. I hope this helps you out and GOOD LUCK!!
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