It's either easy, or a royal pain. It depends what's under it.
If you go to a Home Depot type store they have everything you need.
A roller that puntures the paper so that when you apply the remover, is soaks in better.
DIF wallpaper remover solution
A few big sponges to apply the remover
A good metal scraper
Possibly a steamer although I've never used one
Alot of patience and a big mess to clean up
Hopefully it was applied to a wall with a gloss or semi-gloss paint underneath. Then it's a piece of cake.
My kitchen had four layer of wallpaper I had to remove and the original layer was put right in the drywall. No primer, paint, nothin" That was a b**ch!
We just did a room a few weeks ago and the DIF did ok. We found that you just have to get it wet and keep it wet. Use hot water and just keep soaking it as you go. Either way, it is not fun.
Back when I painted for a living we used to patch and sand the seams with some durabond. If it was textured wallpaper we would skim it and sand with a sanding screen(80 grit) connected to a shop vac. make sure it has a filter. Prime with a good primer and paint. If your **** bent on removing the paper, use a paper tiger(hand held device that penetrates the wallpaper)it's a couple of bucks at paint store. garden sprayer with real hot water and dif like stated above. Good luck.
I bought an older home that 5 out of the 8 rooms had wall paper. OMG ...spent a full day on just one wall of one room, as it had 3 layers of wallpaper. With each layer revealing a peice of history....lol . Like what was stated in a eariler post a match would of been easier..lol heck i even thought about using a 3000 psi pressure washer..
I will say we ended up going over it all with 1/4" drywall, alot easier then trying to get all that crap off ..Who ever invented wallpaper needs to be burned at the stake..lol
Good luck this is one job your buddys wont even help even if offered free beer....At least in my case
DONT USE THE ROLLER TO PUNTURE PAPER.unless you know what you are doing with it I have had to fix many a home ownwers f ed up drywall full of tiny holles dont do it and if you do dont push at all.best to peel top layer if it is vinal paper than to use the roller.boil the watter before mixing with diff or whateaver you use put in garden sprayer and go to town.if the walls were not painted before paperd like in some new built homes in the 70s ans 80s and some 90s just demo the rock and start over trust me will be way faster in the end have been on 3 that were just paperd over raw rock and mud 1 of the deff of ****
I have done 6 room in this house including both bathrooms....uuugggggg...like ezra said...peal top paper off then do the roller!!!I use fabric softener........
I never got chance to try steamer I do have one room left and thinking about giving that a try....any one here used one yet?
We removed wallpaper in just about every room of our old house, and found the steamer to be the cleaner and easier of the two options. As Ezra states, if it was done right over the rock, you can expect some pretty extensive damage. We did paint over the wall paper in one room where the paper was applied directly to the sheetrock with some advice from others. The key there is to ensure the wallpaper seams are sanded and sealed well. If not, you will eventually see the lines.
Don't use a steamer on drywall. Go ahead and use the roller that punctures paper. Just skim-coat the walls with the blue-top mud and sand afterward. I did a 15x15 room with all 4 walls covered in paper in about a day (puncture, soak, scrape, skim coat). Sanded the next day after putting plasitc up to protect adjoining room from dust and pointed fan blowing out the window in the room. The reason I say skim coat the entire room with mud is you are going to dammage to the wall surface underneath the wall paper regardless. Then prime over the mud (after sanding) and paint. I like to use Grip-n-seal to prime with.
I think I told you some of my wallpaper nightmare...not fun at all. It wasnt necessarily the paper that was so hard, it was the glue underneath. I tried every trick mentioned, literally. Best one I found was the steamer. DIF works very well on certain kinds of glue, but the stuff we had it didnt touch. A water bottle with very hot water sprayed on the wall after you've scored it works well too and doesnt hurt the drywall if you are worried about that. A few ice cold Coors Lights seemed to really help too
I have used a steamer with pretty good success. I had 2 layers of wallpaper over plaster walls, and first tried scraping, wetting it down, etc. The steamer had much better results, but I still had to patch the walls afterward before painting. Was not a fun job, I guess that's why I ended up painting over the wallpaper in other rooms!