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Earlier this summer I had the experience of doing some major house renovations. One of these included stripping wallpaper. If you've never done this, you would think it was a fairly easy job. It's only paper, right? I'm here to tell you that you would be wrong! My wallpaper was only removed after a lot of work and many different techniques were tried. Below are a few options you might find helpful should you ever have to deal with stubborn wallpaper.
- Spray chemical wallpaper remover on walls and scrape with plastic scrapers.
- Make holes in wallpaper with special 'scoring' tool, spray with mixture of liquid dish detergent and water, and scrape with metal scrapers.
- Use rented steaming machine, scrape with metal scrapers. Be careful around electrical outlets.
- Rent a high-pressure hose, aim directly at walls. Try to avoid electrical outlets.
- Rent a sand-blaster, again, aim directly at walls. Try to avoid getting any in your bathing suit.
- Borrow or steal one of those large rotating floor buffers they use in stores. Crazy glue a mixture of tacks, staples, steel wool and razors to the bottom.
Apply to walls. Protective clothing is recommended.
- Purchase some liquid nitrogen. Spray on your walls. Simply remove with ice pick.
- Obtain some tigers and a selection of fresh beef steaks. Tie steaks to the ceiling at the top of the walls. Release tigers. Results may vary.
- Visit your local military surplus store and purchase a flame thrower. Failing that, make your own flame thrower with plans from the Internet. Apply fire to walls, then re-build house with brand new walls.
- Steal a time machine from the government, and go back and tell the previous owners that if they don't stop putting up wallpaper, you're coming back with the tigers.
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