We have been trying to remove wallpaper for a while now, and have not had much luck in one room. The MORONS who lived here years before we moved in put layers on top of layers. We have gotten all but the bottom layer off. We have a steamer, in fact 3 different types, we have used Diff wallpaper remover spray, and the fabric softener. We have even tried a palm sander on one part, but that wasn’t much help either. I am out of ideas. And when I say that it is not coming off I mean it is like they Super Glued it to the wall. Any advice would be greatly helped.
We really do not want to have to replace the drywall due to cost and already having put it up in to other rooms.
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Keep using the spray. Since you are going to need a lot of it, get the cheapest fabric softener you can and some $1 spray bottles.
I found a 1″ – 2″ stiff (as opposed to flexible, when you find them, you will see the difference) putty knife works well to get the hard spots up. Between the soaking and the putty knife, you will take up some small bits of the drywall underneath, just be careful and get some wall spackle. I like the DAP Drydex, it goes on pink but dries white so you can see *where* it’s going on, and *when* its dry and ready for sanding!
For the hard spots left (usually where the glue was layered on) get a palm sander with a medium grit sandpaper. It won’t take a lot of pressure or time to sand it off so be careful.
The most important tools you will need are time and patience.
Good Luck!
Wow! You’re really stuck. Well, short of new sheet rock, there are paintable wallpapers out there. Problem is that you need to get the wall relatively smooth for the new paper. Then new paper goes on like wallpaper. After it dries, paint it. Or, you could use drywall compound and put that directly on the walls as is. Kind of a swirly texture, or, trowel angular texture. After that dries, paint that as well. Called “skip trowel” in Wisconsin. Good luck!
There is a product you can put over it. It’s like wallpaper, but it’s just white. It’s essentially just thick paper. Put it up like wallpaper, and then paint it.
If you tried the scoring tool, and you tried DIF, and you tried a steamer, and it still didn’t come off, it sounds like you’re stuck (no pun intended.)
In 47 years in the business I’ve used “Diff” every time. If your doing it right, it should come off. Boil the water, a five gallon bucket to one quart of Diff, the with a sponge mop put it on thick and leave it set for awhile, go over it once more then wait again, then try and peel the paper off.
Keep saturating the walls with wall paper remover. First, pierce the layers of wallpaper, using a special tool that make tiny holes through the layers of paper, so the liquid can seep through. SOAK THE WALLS! Then, scrape the stuff with a sharp paint scraper.
all you can do is keep wetting it, you say you put holes in the paper so keep wetting, then scrape
I use Hot water saturating the walls and a sponge and cleaning up the water as it drains down.
well the second guy who suggest the perferater is correct ;the wet needs to get in behind the paper;keep going at it