I found a guy who removes wallpaper and he just said he would charge us $350 for one day or less. We seem to only get small to tiny pieces of wallpaper off at a time so it is taking a long time. Not sure how much to use but I spray it on a small portion of wall but it never seeps through. My kitchen I had hired out and that guy put paste and sizing together and then put it on the back of my prepasted paper. That room I had put the wallpaper up myself and sized the wall. Either we did too little pressure and it didn't go through or we used too much and it put loads of little holes into the wall. We previously did a bathroom and used that circular scorer. So far I've had paint up for a few years now and haven't seen any issues. Oh, as for the spots with really thick paste, I tried to get off what I could but know that I didn't get it all. So keep in mind that while professionals may be faster and require far less elbow-grease they don't have the personal investment in ensuring that all the minor details are just right that you may have. It's obvious that whoever did it didn't take care to get clean removal around the top edges of tile and baseboards and such and just painted over bits of wallpaper that was still there. The guest bath was de-wallpapered by the previous owners and due to their age I'm guessing they hired it out. Not sure what it'd have cost to have someone else do it, but I suspect that I wouldn't have been as happy with the final result. Still have a bit left to do with rehanging towel racks and such, but have been quite pleased with the result.
So I then tried again and was *very* pleased with the result.įollowed by priming then painting and caulking, etc. It was *really* easy to remove the texture by simply spraying it with water and scraping it off with a big wide putty knife. I wound up texturing the entire bathroom before I decided that I really didn't like the job I did. Then experimented on a peice of plywood a bit before trying the wall. I planned to texture the walls after stripping them asġ) I really like the knockdown texture lookĢ) It meant I could get away with being lazy and doing very little surface prep! (really just patching up the spots where I really messed up the drywall paper, no sanding or any of that mess) Didn't mess with any scoring marks at all.Īs my brother had a (small) air compressor, I invested $20 in a harbor freight cheapo sprayer and bought a bag of texture mix from home depot for maybe another $20ish? Wasn't much. It turned into a 3-day project with 2-3 friends helping each day (spread out over a month or so). I'm not sure how much the gel/scorer actually helped having never done it before. I used one of those enzyme gels and a scorer as well as a spray bottle with water. Some areas had almost no glue (to the point that I was worried that painting over it would pull the paper off) some had almost a quarter inch thick of glue and was a big pain. I removed wallpaper from a *large* master bath with a vaulted ceiling.