How the strip of wallpaper with a smile on your face Faced with the prospect of wallpaper stripping, most desperate people - unnecessarily. After 20 years in painting and decorating trade, I can share some tips on how to strip vinyl wallpaper easily and effectively - and keep smiling.
How to remove vinyl wallpaper cleanly and efficiently with a smile
The secret wallpaper Stripping is the correct use of water, patience and a scratching sound.
First you need to take off the top layer to reveal the protective paper covering underneath. My advice to raise the bottom corner and carefully peel off the paper slowly until you have about 12 "completely beat. Then you can take a little more difficult for some fun!
What most of freaks forget - leave the strippings scrumpled dry on the ground (to catch the splashes of water).
Secondly, the burden of a sponge until it sank a little, then gently rub a patch of a square foot. Keep rubbing gently until the sponge is dry. Repeat on the next adjacent patch and the other, until you notice the first place to dry. This is your natural pause, if a return to the first patch - Rinse and repeat three or four times until the paper is completely soaked and ready to ready to fall.
Some say it is better to start soaking the base and work, but there seems to be no difference anyway. No matter where you start, keep working stable and secure, not crazy outbursts.
Finally, when the paper is ready to fall with a little help, use a scraper good - get rid of this sudden traditional raclette, and use a long handled scraper professional (Stanley) with a 4 or 5 " razor blade. Patience and a steady hand and the paper comes off very well tempered easily. There is no reason (or excuse) for gouging the surface with your scraper.
If it becomes too hard for the band - and even more water to work.
Stripping screen problems occur when you try to take shortcuts.
steam cleaners - No! I have childhood memories of my parents struggling with steam cleaners, filling the house with condensation, scalding their hands and literally blow cracks in the plaster by holding the plate steam in one place for too long! I do not remember any room for a steam stripper in a set of designer tools.
Slashing the top layer of vinyl with a paper knife - Not! Businesses also make mistakes, as Slashing the top layer with a knife, allegedly to allow water to penetrate the paper surface. In my experience, the water penetrates faster, but it creates hundreds of small pieces, and overall slowing the process of pickling.
Using more than a sponge - Maybe! Rollering water on the walls is fast, but you need the ground is covered (or, ideally, carpet free) in preparation for a big dip. Airless is the fastest way to blow off the wallpaper, but not everyone has a job big enough for wallpaper it worthwhile to work this way.
Water and patience can strip anything
Given enough time, water can dissolve diamonds, so clearly, old paste behind the wallpaper is not the height of the water. In general, the right balance of patience and water, and of course a good scraper can make for a wonderful, joyful experience.
Taking it continues, I would be surprised if I could not completely remove eight rolls of wallpaper in one day, check the infill walls - and always smiling, ready to rub smooth walls, and hang a little more background of screen the next day, hopefully!
Posted on June 7, 2010.
