Guys, take my advice!

If you own, rent, or even occupy space in a house, and you have to do housework like renovation or reconstruction and such. My advice to you is, DON'T USE WALLPAPER!

Not much needs to be said on this since I can say from experience that no matter how pretty or nice or badass it may appear, when the time comes to remove that shit, you're gonna wish you were shot dead. For starters they sell you a solution which supposedly helps cut down the time it would take for the wallpaper to come off. The solution soaks the wallpaper, making it soft and "mushy" so that all you have to do is pass over it and it will peel off easily. NOT! That shit doesnt' work didly! Especially if the fuckin' wallpaper's outer side is resistant to moisture. Then, comes the beautiful part, the wall itself. You use wallpaper in most cases to cover up a dreadful wall so that you don't have to paint it. What you get in the end is places where the wallpaper literally bonded to the damn thing and won't come off even after 5 soakings of solution. Then comes the good part. Your hands begin to cramp from all the pressure needed to be applied to remove the supposedly easy to removed now soaked wallpaper. Then the arms come next.

My advice to you current homeowners/renters and you future homeowners/renters, no matter how nice the wallpaper that a loved one or you see, don't use it. When the time comes to change, you're going to regret putting that shit up.

Some of you are thinking, why didn't you just hire someone to do it? The answer, cause I am not fuckin rich and don't want outsiders inside my parents house.:D

So get contact paper next time. :p, and just paint over the wallpaper now. :D

Doc, USE WATER !!!

At first you peer off as much as possible, and then use plain water! It works. When I needed to do something similar to what you're doing, I bought circular wire brushes to use in a drill... BIG MISTAKE!!! A lot of (as in A LOT OF!!!!!!!) dust and no progress. Then wise people, after laughing for quite a while, told me about water. That's what I'm doing now - after laughing at you, of course :)

Originally posted by kbslacker
So get contact paper next time. :p, and just paint over the wallpaper now. :D

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Kris::finger: :D j/k

Ales: That was how we started to do it. But this wallpaper has been up for more than 11 yrs so trust me when I say, we tried and water alone was not going to help. ;)





All the wallpaper is off right now. We only did one side of the living room and the other 3 sides got sheets of sheetrock put on top of them and then sealed with some compound. So now, we have to do some work on the newly revealed wall that had the wallpaper. It sucks too because there was a lot of neglect that was left on it when we moved in here back in 1980. Since we put the wallpaper on it, we figured who cares about it, now that my mother has decided that it should come down, well, not much needs to be said there.:D So, thanks for the suggestions fellas. I figured I'd catch up now on what's going on in here while I'm on a little break. Then I have to get back to work.

Oh boy, i hear you. A few years ago my mom wanted to take down some wall paper in the hall way. I had to go over it again and again with warm soapy water. That shit took FOREVER to come down.:mad: :D

When the time came to remove the boarders in my room (that had been up for about 6-8 years) my mom and I rented these special wallpaper removal steamers. We found them at a wallpaper specialty store. If I remember, they weren't that expensive (or we probably wouldn't have used them in the first place). We got plenty of little burns, but the steam really loosened up the glue, and the paper just peeled off!!! Just a suggestion for the future!

Oh, and we hardly had any residue left, so putting up new paper wasn't too bad, either!

Just use bleach! :D


(Don't really use bleach. :eek: )

those wall paper steamers are good......DVS if you think you had it bad try removing wallpaper that has been painted over, and has been up for over 16yrs...:eek: that was a pain....especially as it was only on the ceiling.so when you're removing it you're getting tons of shit in your eyes ouch.......previous owners had wallpapered then instead of removing, they just painted over.....if it wasn't for the wallpaper steamer...I'd still be up there stripping wallpaper :rolleyes:

Being a homeowner and general do-it-yourselfer I can say from experience - DVS is right on the money!

any advice on repainting a 1970 Challenger r/t?

Heh...i punched a hole in my parents wall on a certain 4th and 26 play last year in a certain NFC championship game... I patched it up with some screen and plaster and it looks as good as knew, i consider myself quite the improvisional wall builder...


Thank god i dont have to deal with WALLPAPER though...lol I'll take your advice though...

any advice on repainting a 1970 Challenger r/t?


Jesus H Effing Christ!

You know if you do bring up an old thread sometimes it might make sense to post something that might relate to the thread. 3 years ago this thread was born, now it's going to be knifed.

any advice on repainting a 1970 Challenger r/t?

yeah........read the date before you reply.