Ever Stripped Wallpaper?
By RenaeT
@RenaeT (681)
United States
May 30, 2007 5:24pm CST
Ugh . . . I have stripped many, many walls of their old wallpaper and let me tell you, it's quite the job!! We bought a 50 year old home and it had some pretty old, probably 50 yr. old wallpaper! It was bad news. I stripped the entire very large family room, hallways & bathrooms. I used Simple Green mixed with hot water. I scored the wallpaper with 'The Claw' and squirted the Simple Green solution on it. Not only was that the best stuff ever, but it's safe to use, biodegradable and non toxic. It was the best!! So, if you ever have to tackle stripping walls of their hideous wallpaper, don't buy those expensive wallpaper stripper solutions, I paid $30.00 for a big jug of it and threw it away because the Simple Green worked better for a FRACTION of the cost.
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@AmberNormandin (883)
• United States
31 May 07
ive stripped it a few times and ive just sprayed water on it and it comes right up! easiest and cheapest thing ive found so far. i dont even score it!
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@RenaeT (681)
• United States
31 May 07
You must have had very special walls or wallpaper!! The stuff in the picture that I was stripping was so glued to the wall that I seriously had to use a spatula and scrape inch by inch. It was horrid. But, one of the bathrooms had wallpaper that came off in full big strips! I LOVED that one!
@susieq223 (3742)
• United States
30 May 07
That's nice to know. I have stripped and scraped wallpaper without the benefit of Simple Green. I agree it is a dirty, nasty job. I haven't done it for a long time. Because of having to strip paper, I decided I didn't want to put any wallpaper up!
Thanks for sharing the info about Simple Green. I'll try to remember that!
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@crazynurse (7482)
• United States
30 May 07
Oh my gosh Renae, where were you 12 years ago when we bought this house and had to strip wallpaper from 5 rooms!! What a long, tedious process! Needless to say, the wallpaper was not of the strippable variety. Everyone (even the children) had sore fingers! One of our bathrooms, the one with NO WINDOW, had navy blue wallpaper with little tiny flowers. One sheet had been put on upside down!!! That was the darkest bathroom on earth! My parents came for a visit and my father teased that I needed to leave a flashlight on the back of the toilet! Ha!
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@RenaeT (681)
• United States
31 May 07
LOL!! I am GLAD I wasnt' there 12 years ago when you stripped your wallpaper! I was VERY lucky because most of the walls under the paper were made of some shiny material, sort of like dry-erase board. But, knowing the house is 50 years old, we know that isn't what it is! Once I scrubbed the glue gunk off of it, it was shiny and slick so, I didn't end up with gouges like you do with dry wall. The one wall that was dry wall . . . well, it looks like I took a chisel to it!! LOL!!
