Stripping wallpaper..

Its the worst job in the world..
Any tried and true tips?

Does anyone in christchurch have a paper tiger or steamer we could borrow?

Get a spray bottle, warm/hot water with dishwashing liquid, spray it on and wait a bit then tear it off.

Thats what ours did (we did 3/4 of our last house this way) and then spray it again, get a butter knife that is pretty thin and doesn't have a surated edge and use that to help scrape the remaining paper stuff off.

Or spray it with vinegar, it stinks but dissolves the glue pretty quick

Awwww i wish you lived here!!
Its a horrible horrible job!

Heres the small amount that took us 4 hours to do!
And then everything we still have left to do.

Its our living room upstairs, excuse the mess we have to shift stuff around so it doesnt get dirty.
We have no carpet as its lino up there, so we are painting the walls white, with a blue feature wall, and laying new grey carpet.

Oh they might be abit yellow from the light.

The little bit we done.



What we have left.

our friend is a painter and he stripped ours, he used hot water and something maybe dishwashing liquid and sprayed it on with a cheap old spray bottle, left it then sprayed again and it came off easy. In another room we did first we used a wallpaper steamer and it was horrible, everything was wet and sticky and it was just terrible!

LMAO! Vanessa.. I guess hes been doing it at home has he.. By the time hes finishd here he will hate the sight of it and never touch it again lol

We stripped the wallpaper and painted most of our old house before we sold it. It was actually really easy, even though some rooms had 2-3 layers of wallpaper.
We ripped off all that we could get off just by ripping it (that often worked for the top layers, not for the bottom ones though). Then we had a bucket of water and wallpaper stripper that we sponged onto the wall. By ripping the paper off where we could, it gave us access to the under layers and once it had been left for a few minutes, it just peeled off really easily. The instructions were on the packet and we bought it from Mitre10 i think. It wasn't very expensive, and definitely worth it in my opinion!
If you are going to paint it, rather than re-paper it, I wouldn't use a paper tiger. We got one, but found it left marks on the jib underneath that took aaaaages to sand out, and it was easy enough to get the paper off without using it anyway. And where we didn't sand the marks out properly, you can see them through the paint - whoops!
Good luck with it. Its hard work, but it does feel good at the end to see what you've acheived.