Easy Chemical Free Wallpaper Removal

I dread removing wallpaper.

I mean REALLY, REALLY, dread removing wallpaper.

When we bought our current home a few of the

rooms had wallpaper.

I've never cared for the wallpaper in the

dining room, master bath and the downstairs bathroom.
This is the wallpaper in our dining room.
It's a gray, pink and white mixture with an odd design.

Shortly after moving in

we stripped the wallpaper in the downstairs bathroom,

since that was a small room, and painted it.

It took us FOREVER to remove

the wallpaper from that room.

That was 15 years ago!

So needless to say, we haven't stripped any

wallpaper since then!

But things change in 15 years.

 

Shortly we will be retiring!

Under 3 years!
It will be here before we know it.

So there are a few home improvement projects

that we want to do before we put our home on the market.
 

On the top of the list:

Get rid of ALL the wallpaper in the house!

 

We are HUGE DIYers.

Most things we can do on our own.

Those we can't, we definitely hire out.

 

I'm not crazy about using chemicals of any kind.

So I did a little research and came across this

for removing wallpaper.

I could either rent a wallpaper steamer for $30.00 per 1/2 day,

or I could purchase one for $50.00.

We decided to spend the $50.00 and purchased one

since we will be removing wallpaper from 3 rooms,

plus we didn't know how long it was going to take to remove

the wallpaper from one room.

We purchased ours at our local home improvement store.

Let me just say this,

this was the BEST $50.00 we EVER spent!

 

***I am not being compensated for this post.  When I find something that performs well

and makes projects easier to do I like to pass it along to others.***

 

Our dining room is 12" x 16".

We completely removed the wallpaper from the entire room in 7 hours!

We worked for 4 hours yesterday and 3 hours today.

  It only took 4 hours TOTAL to remove the wallpaper from the room.

The other time was spent gathering supplies,

moving furniture, curtain rods, shelves and décor from the room,

wiping down the walls after the wallpaper was removed,

and taking a couple of breaks.

The wallpaper steamer took 5 minutes to assemble

and was VERY easy to use.

 

Here is the beginning of the wallpaper removal process.

Our wallpaper is thick professional grade.

Hubby scored the wallpaper just below the crown molding

and just above the baseboard and started heating the wallpaper

at the top in sections for 10 seconds.

Once he got the wallpaper to start to peel, he was able to

peel the first layer off in sheets without heating the rest of the wall.



Once Hubby got a few sheets of the first layer off,

I started heating the second lay in sections for 3-4 seconds

and peeled the second layer off in sheets also.

We never had any problem with the wallpaper tearing off in small pieces.

We were amazed at how EASY and QUICK it was to remove the wallpaper.

Here is what the walls looked like after the wallpaper was removed.

There was NO residue left on the walls.

Since we will be painting this room, I decided to wipe

down the walls just to make sure the paint would adhere well.

There really is no need to do this because there really is NO residue left behind.

I'm just funny that way.

Hubby has already patched up the MANY holes in the walls,

and tomorrow he will prep the room to get ready to paint it next weekend.

 

If you need to remove wallpaper I HIGHLY recommend using

a wallpaper steamer.

Now I don't dread removing wallpaper.

Next up will be our master bath.

Speaking of master baths.

I thought I would share a picture I took out of our master bath window yesterday.

We got down to -9 degrees last night.

That's it for this week.

Until Next Time,

Veronica