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ChadTower:

--- Quote from: whammoed on February 15, 2008, 12:10:57 pm ---Have you tried just peeling it off as-is yet?  Sometimes you get lucky and it just comes off.
They make wallpaper scorers also...little doodads that poke holes all over the wallpaper to let the remover solution get to the glue.
I hate wallpaper.

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I haven't tried yet, so that is the hope, but I figure it won't be the case.  Nothing ever works out to the easiest case scenario.

This is a good article on it. 

shardian, you're probably right.  A lot of this stuff was done by the previous owner, though, and not always in the most thorough manner.  Nice guy, but some of his work is proving very difficult to work with now.  I don't want to say anything more about him since he has passed on.

shardian:
At least you don't have painted over wallpaper. I had painted over cailing border. Man, that was TOUGH to remove.

Another doozy I had in my house was someone painted over a wall that had previously been wallpapered...the problem was the wall was still covered with glue residue and small bits of wallpaper. :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:

I had to cover the whole wall in spackle and sand down. My poor quarter sheet sander bit the dust on that project.

ChadTower:

Heh.  I would have busted out the belt sander before I tried that with a finish sander.  That must have taken a week.

shardian:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 15, 2008, 12:56:29 pm ---
Heh.  I would have busted out the belt sander before I tried that with a finish sander.  That must have taken a week.

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Not that long. The little guy gave his life in a valiant fashion. ;D
The people who "fixed up" my house at one point were real idiots. There are nail patches all over the place that weren't even sanded down before painting. It looks just awful. In the hallway upstairs (an area I haven't painted yet), there is not only painted over wallpaper border, but also countless painted over "flecks" of crap from what I can only guess is from texturing the ceiling.  Did I mention all of this is done with semi-gloss. Semi-gloss pretty much makes it impossible to sand down. You have to either dig it out, or smooth it over. I did have some luck downstairs using a chisel to get rid of some of the bad spots. That is why it takes so damn long to renovate rooms in my house - I spend countless hours fixing "fixes".

Level42:
Is it true that in the US not many bathrooms are tiled ?
Overhere, almost all of them are...

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