Warm water and white vinegar, piranha wallpaper remover, those are the only two that I have used. They make a tool that scores the paper, you may find some luck in that first then use a product. If its vinyl based wall paper good luck that is so hard to get off.

 

I'm gonna try wallpaper remover in a sprayer. SW says their paint guys swear by it. Leave it on the surface for 30mins and keep surface damp.

I'm picking up the festool wallpaper tool for a job I have coming up.

 

FIL is a paint contractor. That's how he does it and now we do as well. Just a pump garden sprayer and keep it wet for a while. We have the little hand held scoring tools. My bro texted me a photo of the Festool one last time he was stripping wall paper cause it takes so long with the small things.

Let us know how that Festool one works out for you cause we strip paper quite a bit around here.

 

I bought a Wagner streamer from HD: $50
Worked great. Best money I ever spent.

I didn't actually do the removing, my helper did. But it was super easy. He used the steamer and a 6" taping knife.

 

Haven't found a wallpaper yet that wouldn't strip with steam. I know some of the strippers out there work faster, but when over half the time I need to strip it off they never prepped it right in the first place and the steam will work. The most miserable is wallpaper directly to bare Sheetrock.

 

Downy fabric softener.

My sister has the Festool scorer, it's the only thing that went through the multiple layers of paper. It can be set to score to a precise depth. Trying to convince her to send it to me now that she is finished with it.

Tom

 

I second the sprayer, works very well. Like BCC said keep the chemical on the walls to let it cook them glue off.

 

I like the steamer myself. However, if you have wood floors or bare trim, you need to watch the water.

 

Believe it or not I had a remodel job one time where the wallpaper had to be peeled off a little at a time. Nothing I tried worked. It had been on there so long it was almost a part of the wall. Then the glue had to be sanded off. What a mess.

 

If you can close the room off, fire up a steamer, open the petcock, and let er buck for awhile. I've stripped more paper than I want to admit that way. Just find an old carpet scrap to set the steamer on.

 

We strip plenty of paper. Standard procedure for me is as follows:

Try to strip face layer from the backing, done dry and if reasonable progress is made then continue.
If progress is too slow then we score the paper and apply remover - usually DIF. Keep it wet, usually wet every 10 - 15 min for as long as we need to. Be patient and let DIF work.
Now try to scrape off the face layer.
Once face layer is off soak backing with DIF and strip the backing.
Then soak walls again and use a scouring pad to remove glue.
Wipe down walls until clean and not slick.

Stubborn paper will get use of a 4" razor knife, causes a bit more damage but repairable.
Never had to resort to a steamer. I would think they are too slow.
Stripping paper can be real work.

 

I remember back in 09 i was doing a floor and there was a painter in there after me with two helpers. They stripped, prepped, and painted the whole house interior for 1600.00. The guy said he didnt want to do remodel work because you always had to buy another tool and it was too expensive. Whiskey tango foxtrot.

 

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I know this is an old thread but fabric softener works good

 

We use vinegar, fabric softener and hot water

 

I own a EARLEX steamer its the only way to go

 

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It's the ONLY way to go:thumbsup:

 

Steamer and warm water

We have always used a steamer and a 4 inch putty knife. if you don't have a steamer then warm water and lots of it.

 

It's been two years since he asked, I would imagine he has figured it out by now.

 

I'm dealing with some tough paste right now. No access to hot water. Going to use microwave to heat it up today. Thought about bringing my camp stove too.

At least the walls were sized for once :thumbup: paper falls right off.

Did one room last week. Glue took two soakings with water to remove. Going to try piranha or dif today plus hot water.

Also the thought entered my mind to try my PC sander/vac with 80 grit.

Mid 80's glue.

 

Sander did nothing. Crazy thought. Glue comes off after 3-4 soakings from pump sprayer.

 

Noones even mentioned using one of these.

 

Noones even mentioned using one of these.

The paper pulls right off. Just the paste is left.

Have you tried the cheap Wagner electric steamer. It works wonders if you can keep the water off the floor.

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Steamer would be too slow.


We blew a good sized room out the other day. Cold water so far. Going to try hot today and see if it makes any difference. Lost the lid to my gallon milk jug the other day and couldn't heat any up.

 

Have you tried the cheap Wagner electric steamer. It works wonders if you can keep the water off the floor.

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Hot water and dif liquid doing the trick.

The real pain is they cut the drywall paper on every seam from floor to ceiling. I'll have to say I've never run into to that before.

An occasional one maybe, but every one???? Must have been a reason. :blink:


Wallpaper is like a box of chocolate.............

 

perforator, warm water, vinegar, and old newspaper.

Spray wall down, stick old newspaper up. the wall papers never seem to absorb the water easily, but the newspaper keeps the whole thing damp. Sprits a few more timres, and it comes off. The glue I've had left behind, that I just spackled and prime/paint.

Its interesting how tacky wall paper can look in a house, yet looks great in a restaurant/bar.

 

Attacking paper and glue again today. Run mud all day tomorrow. Sand paint Saturday and Monday. And half day Tuesday before doctors staff shows up.

 

aahh no, you are most likely attacking PASTE, if it is actually glue, you will never get it off

 

I have the Festool perforator. For multiple layers it is great, for a single layer it is a bit too harsh. It's depth adjustment is a bit crappy, it also only works in one direction, not back and forth, that tends to make it a bit awkward to use.

So yea it's ok, multiple layers is where it excels. I believe it is a discontinued item but they are easy enough to find online. Frankly it is over priced for what it is.