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shelflifers
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 Posted: 12/02/03 - 00:45 Post subject: Wallpaper: The Enemy
We've decided to tear down our bugly (butt + ugly = bugly) wallpaper/borders in the kitchen and repaint the walls.
We're steaming it off and it's going pretty well, but the second layer of it (the sticky gunk) isn't going as smoothly as we hope...Add to that problem is when we scrape it off with a putty knife...or even our finger nails, the paint underneath the wallpaper gets gouged...(gouged is a weird word, no?)
I'm sure you all have wallpaper horror stories to share...and hopefully you've got stellar tips to go along with those stories...
bring. it. please. 
shelfie
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copteacher
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Posted: 12/02/03 - 00:49 Post subject:
new.drywall.
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purple hayes
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Posted: 12/02/03 - 07:04 Post subject:
My inlaws repapered the kitchen dinig room area for me! 
We stripped the bathrooms ourselves though and repainted.  I feel your pain.
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Cappy
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Posted: 12/02/03 - 07:44 Post subject:
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rolling rock
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Posted: 12/02/03 - 07:53 Post subject:
our first house was nearly a century home -- read: layers and layers of wallpaper. they papered and then painted over and then papered and then painted some more -- 1300 sq ft of stripping plaster walls and CEILINGS...... took us over a year but we did the majority of it in the two months prior to moving in. good thing i was 20 something.
we used razor stripper thingys we got at the paint store. lots of wetting down and elbow grease. no steamer, altho that would have helped we were afraid it would have damaged the crown moldings and baseboards?--it was such fun. 
consider it your rite of passage. 
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TriBob
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Posted: 12/02/03 - 08:28 Post subject:
Don't get me started. 
The idiots before me didn't do anything right. They did not paint, prime, seal, nothing to the wallboard before putting up wallpaper. Well, half the drywall came down with the wall paper. I ended up texture painting the bathroom to cover up the damage. I am still fixing another bathroom.
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brie k
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Posted: 12/02/03 - 09:06 Post subject:
This is mainly why my dining room still has this horrid (IMO, other people love it) wallpaper... I just don't have it in me to take it all down, and it's textured, so I'm not to sure about painting over it (the textured part would be livable, but you can see the seems as it is, painting would really make them visible).
Good luck to you!
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RangerG
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Posted: 12/02/03 - 09:33 Post subject:
We used vinegar and hot water at my parents place. Spray it on and let it soak in.
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purple hayes
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Posted: 12/02/03 - 09:33 Post subject:
| TriBob wrote: | | Well, half the drywall came down with the wall paper. I ended up texture painting the bathroom to cover up the damage. I am still fixing another bathroom. |
So texture painting is what you call it when there's big chunks missing from the wall? 
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TriBob
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Posted: 12/02/03 - 09:48 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | TriBob wrote: | | Well, half the drywall came down with the wall paper. I ended up texture painting the bathroom to cover up the damage. I am still fixing another bathroom. |
So texture painting is what you call it when there's big chunks missing from the wall? |
Watch enough HGTV and as long as you give it a nice name you can make anything sound good.
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elkid
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Posted: 12/02/03 - 09:49 Post subject:
Listen to my moans of anguish coming your way! You have no idea what my house looked like when we bought it. The owners had put black contact paper on an entire wall in the dining room, which when removed, left huge black streaks of glue that required three coats of primer and two coats of paint to cover. Everything was wallpapered (including the ceilings, baseboards, and doorjams!) then painted then wallpapered then painted then wallpapered without a drop of primer. My two kitchen walls took a week to redo - the other two had cabinets and the refrigerator so it would've taken longer to do. Because of all the cutouts, phone jack, vents, and outlets in there (in addition to a messed up floor consisting of three layers of subfloor  ) it would've been extremely difficult to do new drywall. Instead I skimcoated joint compound on the walls ENTIRELY, then sanding, then priming, then painting. It was a beeotch, but it was OK.
In my bedroom it was better. The wallpaper (again, no priming) was like corduroy. No lie - it had fabric strings in it, so scoring it was virtually useless. We used a plant sprayer with a strong DIF/water combo and painstakingly scraped off the paper. Because of the hardwood and all the cutouts for windows and the closet and doors, the skimcoating process was best. That room took two weeks.
I feel your pain, my brother. I really do.
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keltic63
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Posted: 12/02/03 - 09:54 Post subject:
I watched one of those room makeover shows not too long ago and they used fabirc softener to remove wallpaper.
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coachmarkos
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Posted: 12/02/03 - 09:56 Post subject:
My parents said if you can wallpaper a room together, and stay married, then it's the real deal.
as far as help goes: Scrape like a b@stage, and you can buy some cool scraper type thingies at Menards, Home Depot, Lowes...whatever is close.
They come in some neato sizes and shapes.
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elkid
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Posted: 12/02/03 - 10:00 Post subject:
| coachmarkos wrote: | | They come in some neato sizes and shapes. |
Did you really type 'neato'?
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runaroundsue
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Posted: 12/02/03 - 10:29 Post subject:
our first house in Madison...had one previous owner and it was built in the 60s---mirrors built into the living room walls with faux brick....so did the kitchen.....everything was the original stuff. We did textured painting in the kitchen and then cracks showed up. Living room we just drywalled and it was alot easier and painfree! I kind of miss that little hut.
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