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Previous owners of the house we just bought painted over TONS of wallpaper throughout the house....dining room, master bathroom, small bathroom, and probably more I have not discovered yet. The small bath looks awful....the wallpaper under the paint looks like it had been coming off prior to the paint being applied and it really will need to be taken off. I am sure this will be harder due to the paint being on top of the wallpaper. Anyone have any experience with taken wallpaper off that has been painted over?
It's no different than just wallpaper- it just takes longer.
Paper Tiger, enzyme, steamer, and a putty knife.
I've done my share- the driving force is I know what it's going to look like when I'm completely done!
If it is the bathroom, I can almost guarantee that you will be far better off removing the walls entirely and replacing the sheet rock. You'll come to that conclusion yourself after you remove some of the paper and find mold and crumbling walls. It is MUCH cheaper and easier to just go in once and do the job right. In other rooms, you may find it faster to just add a 3/8 layer of sheet rock over the existing walls. You did go into the purchase with eyes wide open, right???
It is nto that hard to remove. As said abot paper tiger, hot dif with a lot of soakings and off it comes. Just be sure to paper tiger a LOT. Also soak with dif using a garden sprayer, wait about an hour, soak again wait half an hour soak again and remove while it is wet. Make sure the DIF is getting through the paint and paper to the glue. If not, paper tiger some more. But do not paper tiger while it is still wet. let it dry completely or the tiger will gum up. That is why it is crucial to paper tiger a lot and a lot more the first time. You do nto want ot have to go again.
Not all wallpaper will come off and it can be very difficult to nearly impossible to remove. If the walls were not prepped properly before the wallpaper was applied, you will remove drywall along with bits and pieces of the paper regardless of the product or method used to remove the paper. I speak from experience - some wallpaper does not come off.
I had only 1 room,a spare bedroom with painted over wallpaper. It was in good shape so I left it. Any holes etc I just spackled as usual. I had 2 other rooms paneled, so I lightly sanded and primed, then painted. I had to make some compromises otherwise to much work for me.
Not all wallpaper will come off and it can be very difficult to nearly impossible to remove. If the walls were not prepped properly before the wallpaper was applied, you will remove drywall along with bits and pieces of the paper regardless of the product or method used to remove the paper. I speak from experience - some wallpaper does not come off.
I ahve removed thousands of feet of wallpaper in several different houses. The only time I had any trouble is when the wallpaper is glued directly to wall board with no primer or sizing.
I used a heat gun to strip some molding in an old building in New York once. I found multiple layers of paint plus some ancient wallpaper. Looked liked 1920s vintage placed over several layers of paint and then painted over more times. It was like an archaelogical dig.
Since its painted over, any chance you could use a heat gun?
It is nto that hard to remove. As said abot paper tiger, hot dif with a lot of soakings and off it comes. Just be sure to paper tiger a LOT. Also soak with dif using a garden sprayer, wait about an hour, soak again wait half an hour soak again and remove while it is wet. Make sure the DIF is getting through the paint and paper to the glue. .
What is DIF?
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