wallpaper, schmallpaper

One of the many charming details of this place is that the previous owners loved them some textured wallpaper, and you can guess how I feel about wallpaper (unless it's some kind of really cool vintage op-art madness). Adding insult to textured injury, the genuises who last painted the entire joint painted right over it, because, hey, any job worth doing is worth doing wrong, right?  God forbid you should deny the next owner the pleasure of Undoing The Stupid™.

Actually, the paint may have helped my cause because removal is matter of grabbing a corner and ripping it off the walls with your hands- it's so thick, it just comes right off, no tools necessary. That's the good news. The bad news is that it leaves behind all matter of backing/glue blechery. I was really worried that it would mess up the drywall so much that I'd have to replace it- I'll pass, thanks! But a little online research suggested simply mixing dish detergent and hot water in a bucket and saturating the residue gunk. You let it sit for a couple of minutes while the detergent breaks down the glue, and after that most of it comes off really easily. Much of it is removable by hand, and the rest I removed with a brillo sponge and a plastic paint scraper. Later on you go back with the soapy brillo sponge to get any remaining residue- it takes a little elbow grease, but it could be FAR worse. Only other thing to be aware of is that you have to turn the power off if you're anywhere near switches and outlets (I wasn't), because I'm pretty sure water and 120v AC don't mix (actually they do, therein lies the problem).

As you can see above, that lime green mess is the roughly four-foot chunk of wall I attacked, and though it looks ugly in the pic, it's actually pretty clean. I'm confident that a coat of Killz primer and it'll take paint fine. I suspect that the prior paint worked to my advantage, because you have to get the wall REALLY soapy and wet. Not sure how well the drywall would've held up had it not been painted. By the way, it is a somewhat messy process, and smells a little gluey. If you've ever done paper mache, you're in the ballpark (perhaps I could get a frame of a pig and make a pinata for all the children that don't live in my 'hood). Lucky for me, I don't care about the floor or the baseboards, because they're all going away. 

BTW, the mess immediately to the right is where I tore out ceramic tile, and that'll definitely need to be re-drywalled, because it's impossible to get the smooth set off without destroying the wall (as I pretty much did).

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[mouni roy]

Thank You for wallpapers

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