I'm stripping!

[Aphro]

And it's a nasty, sticky wet mess!

It's going to take all afternoon to clean up.


Wallpaper, people. Get your minds out of the gutter. I'm stripping vinyl wallpaper. Please remind me to never, ever, ever wallpaper any room again, ever.

Even though I am being super careful, the paint underneath is peeling off a bit in places too, leaving the wall all rough and pockmarked. It's going to be a BITCH to paint this.

The gloves leak, and wallpaper paste remover sure makes your hands soft. Hopefully tomorrow I still have skin.

And yes, this could have been a blurt. But if Mr_Ann can start five zillion useless threads, I can too, so fuck you all very much.

 

[Hard_Rom]

You might have to mud over the missing paint areas. You probably will lose a couple of layers of skin if you have to aggressively sand down the paint around the missing areas with soft skin from removing wallpaper.

If wallpapered it is best to stick with wallpaper unless willing and able to scrub, scrape and sand heavily.

Any chance of pics of you doing this naked or topless?

 

[Emerson40]

And it's a nasty, sticky wet mess!

It's going to take all afternoon to clean up.


Wallpaper, people. Get your minds out of the gutter. I'm stripping vinyl wallpaper. Please remind me to never, ever, ever wallpaper any room again, ever.

Even though I am being super careful, the paint underneath is peeling off a bit in places too, leaving the wall all rough and pockmarked. It's going to be a BITCH to paint this.

The gloves leak, and wallpaper paste remover sure makes your hands soft. Hopefully tomorrow I still have skin.

And yes, this could have been a blurt. But if Mr_Ann can start five zillion useless threads, I can too, so fuck you all very much.

Ugh! Tough chore Aphro.

Don't give up on future papering potential though. There are some lovely, quality wall coverings out there.

The key, and what most folks forgot to do when preparing to paper, and why you are cursing and marking the wall, is to prime before hanging wallpaper.
Priming helps with adhesion, as well as makes removal an easier task later.

*ducks from thrown rubber glove*


What colour you going to paint?

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny

Any chance of pics of you doing this naked or topless?

I'm going to add my name to this request. Even a dirty messy job can be sexy.

And please don't compare yourself to Mr?Ann.

 

[hotoldrguy]

And it's a nasty, sticky wet mess!

It's going to take all afternoon to clean up.


Wallpaper, people. Get your minds out of the gutter. I'm stripping vinyl wallpaper. Please remind me to never, ever, ever wallpaper any room again, ever.

Even though I am being super careful, the paint underneath is peeling off a bit in places too, leaving the wall all rough and pockmarked. It's going to be a BITCH to paint this.

The gloves leak, and wallpaper paste remover sure makes your hands soft. Hopefully tomorrow I still have skin.

And yes, this could have been a blurt. But if Mr_Ann can start five zillion useless threads, I can too, so fuck you all very much.

I feel your pain. I have been stripping 2 rooms of wall paper. The both have wallpaper over wallpaper so double damn trouble. I have been using a spray bottle of water and just wetting the piss out of it. When its wet enough the scrapper does a good job. Although, I am also experiencing some pock marked. I did discover after a number of these that the original drywall guys must of had a crooked eye cuz the damn wall is not flush.

Wish you the best and yes I do "get it" And BTW LOVE your new AV

 

[Hard_Rom]

This thread held such promise for the briefest of moments...

There is still a chance of nudey pics of the Goddess!

 

[Conager]

It wasn't wallpaper, but I had a simlar mess. I can't remember why I involved myself directly, but I was selling a client's house that had cork and mirrors affixed to the walls with double stick tape in the 1960's.

I found it was easier just to sheetrock over rather than repairing the resulting mess with quarter-inch sheetroc. Tape it, texture and paint it, done

 

[Conager]

If you end up painting the room like this:http://www.hgtv.com/design/decorating/design-101/hgtv-stars-paint-stripes-pictures, you can start a companion thread saying "I am Striping!"

 

[hotoldrguy]

And it's a nasty, sticky wet mess!

It's going to take all afternoon to clean up.


Wallpaper, people. Get your minds out of the gutter. I'm stripping vinyl wallpaper. Please remind me to never, ever, ever wallpaper any room again, ever.

Even though I am being super careful, the paint underneath is peeling off a bit in places too, leaving the wall all rough and pockmarked. It's going to be a BITCH to paint this.

The gloves leak, and wallpaper paste remover sure makes your hands soft. Hopefully tomorrow I still have skin.

And yes, this could have been a blurt. But if Mr_Ann can start five zillion useless threads, I can too, so fuck you all very much.

WAIT! I got it. What a bout a wet naked wall stripping party!!!!

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Deny

It wasn't wallpaper, but I had a simlar mess. I can't remember why I involved myself directly, but I was selling a client's house that had cork and mirrors affixed to the walls with double stick tape in the 1960's.

I found it was easier just to sheetrock over rather than repairing the resulting mess with quarter-inch sheetroc. Tape it, texture and paint it, done

I did that in the 60's on each side of the dining room patio doors. I'll bet the new owner was pissed in 1994 when we sold it.

Still better than smoke and mirrors.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

WAIT! I got it. What a bout a wet naked wall stripping party!!!!

Can we wallpaper the naked ladies to the wall?

 

[Hard_Rom]

It wasn't wallpaper, but I had a simlar mess. I can't remember why I involved myself directly, but I was selling a client's house that had cork and mirrors affixed to the walls with double stick tape in the 1960's.

I found it was easier just to sheetrock over rather than repairing the resulting mess with quarter-inch sheetroc. Tape it, texture and paint it, done

Was an option I was thinking of but...Okay if wall has no doorways, windows or more importantly electrical sockets. Trimming out openings and moving outlets would be almost as much work.

Tape it texture it and paint it? You mean like stucco? Kinda 60s ain't it. Or even 50s? Stucco is cheesy and cheap. Fine homes don't even use it on ceilings. Stucco is just a cheat way of doing ceiling cheap and fast.

 

[tnman03]

And it's a nasty, sticky wet mess!

It's going to take all afternoon to clean up.


Wallpaper, people. Get your minds out of the gutter. I'm stripping vinyl wallpaper. Please remind me to never, ever, ever wallpaper any room again, ever.

Even though I am being super careful, the paint underneath is peeling off a bit in places too, leaving the wall all rough and pockmarked. It's going to be a BITCH to paint this.

The gloves leak, and wallpaper paste remover sure makes your hands soft. Hopefully tomorrow I still have skin.

And yes, this could have been a blurt. But if Mr_Ann can start five zillion useless threads, I can too, so fuck you all very much.

I've had to rip out and replace dry wall before where someone had wallpapered a room and then painted over the wallpaper. As a matter of fact I'm going to be doing that very thing in my current house since the previous owners painted over wallpapered bathroom walls.

As to your project I've never removed vinyl wallpaper but I was delighted to find that a wallpaper steamer used to help remove the wallpaper was money well spent.

 

[Aphro]

It's my daughter's room, and she wants it purple. Gawd help us. I'm championing a lighter, greyish-lavender. Purple will take at least 3 coats and be hell to cover when she gets sick of it in a couple of years.

Sheetrock? Plaster? Stucco? Who are you sadists? Do I look like someone who knows how to apply sheetrock? I can work a paint roller, end of story, and do a bit of Poly Filla where required. The only other trips made by me for supplies at Home Depot are comedy show fodder.

Yes. Topless photos are available. Those who are interested can go on a wee search to find them. Plastic scrapers make excellent props.b

 

[HisArpy]

This thread held such promise for the briefest of moments...

And then we came face to face with the harsh cold truth of reality. *sigh*

Oh well.

For vinyl wallpaper (or any kind actually except the flocked pattern stuff), run an orbital sander with 120 grit sandpaper over the surface and peel off any loose bits. Plaster the torn off areas flush with the wallpaper surface and sand smooth.

Texture and paint. Yep, leave the blasted wallpaper buried under the new texturing. It's stuck on and won't be visible once it's textured and painted.

If your house doesn't have textured wall surfaces, then it's often easier and faster to just yank the wallpapered drywall off and replace it with new. Insulate while your wall is open. Tape and mud and paint.

I only stripped wallpaper ONCE. Never again.

 

[yossi]

This makes me thankful all I had to rip off the wall was sheets of paneling. Ugly, but no glue involved.

 

[Hard_Rom]

A steel drywall blade might do a better job. I just use the plastic ones for things like roofing tar. I have sharpened the edge on one of mine. They have a tendency to self sharpen when used for drywalling. But I wouldn't actually sharpen one of my good blades.

 

[Aphro]

The worst bits are up near the ceiling and along the baseboards and around door and window frames.

I'm finding if I wet it, leave it for 20 minutes then come back, wet it again, it mostly comes off.

I'm going to be trailing around strips of wet wallpaper stuck to my feet for the rest of the evening though.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Still wearing jewellery! And no wet bits of paper stuck to naughty bits.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny

In our mobile home in Florida our youngest son painted his bedroom Dark blue and orange for Gator colors. Dark and ugly!

Here in central Illinois I bought an old house off the internet 2 1/2 years ago. We've almost been here a year already.
This house was built in 1961 and looks like the 60's when you walk in the door. Plastered painted off white walls and old varnished trim. My first idea was to update it. But after a year of compliments we're leaving it 1961.

 

[hotoldrguy]

The worst bits are up near the ceiling and along the baseboards and around door and window frames.

I'm finding if I wet it, leave it for 20 minutes then come back, wet it again, it mostly comes off.

I'm going to be trailing around strips of wet wallpaper stuck to my feet for the rest of the evening though.

If you soak them good you can usually just peel them off with your fingernail That. what I did when I got in real tight spots where I knew the scraper was going to tear things up

 

[doowdniw]

Wallpaper sucks. As do popcorn ceilings.

 

[HisArpy]

Wallpaper sucks. As do popcorn ceilings.

Stripping down a popcorn ceiling SUCKS. It's inevitable that you will gouge the drywall surface AND tear the tape at the wall/ceiling joint. Plus the laborers who taped the joints on the ceiling probably didn't do as nice a job as they did for the walls so you will have to finished the mud work up there too.

On top of this, the popcorn leaves this "dust residue" behind. That means you have to wipe the surface with a wet cloth before you can do any mud work. Or the new mud just falls off into your face.

I still have 2 ceilings left to go in my house. Been meaning to get to them for almost 5 years now...

 

[EternalFantasies]

And it's a nasty, sticky wet mess!

It's going to take all afternoon to clean up.


Wallpaper, people. Get your minds out of the gutter. I'm stripping vinyl wallpaper.

Of course you are. That's what i initially thought. Dirty mind you.

Now you got me dreaming.

 

[Porkwarrior]

Aphroditiac...

...the only person that still makes me laugh and worth it to click on a clickbait th'd in the GB




I'd give tips on stripping wallpaper, but frankly the last 20yrs I've just paid other people to paint over them, lol.