Removing Wallpaper!

[mrpeatie]

In my last place I was redoing the bathrooms pretty extensively and aactually had them take out about half of the drywall because I wasn't positive I'd be okay with how the walls might turn out after.

The real crime is people who put up wall paper without priming first. It leaves you with two bad choices- painting over wallpaper or possibly stripping it and the paper layer of the gyp board (or more aptly stripping paper off half the gyp boards and ending up with glue still attached to the other half.)

I have an aunt who always wallpapered her previous homes and last year she told me why- it was the easiest way to cover the damage from removeing the previous wallpaper. I had a good laugh but she was dead serious.

I agree with whoever mentioned a sander and skim coating with mud or plaster being the only way to truly cover some of the damage. Been there, done that and spent half a year getting rid of the three diferent types of dust it kicked up.

[boilrmkr]

I removed wallpaper from 3 bathrooms and the kitchen in my previous house. It's a messy job. I used the scorer then just used water. I pulled off the first layer and then the paper layer I soaked with water and scraped it off. Then the walls have to be washed. I did use a wallpaper steamer for one of the bathrooms that had really difficult paper to get off. I think the wagner wallpaper steamer is fairly inexpensive at Home Depot.

I never hire someone to do something I can do for free but wallpaper removal may be one of those things that is worth paying for. It is just so messy.