Wallpaper striping on Tape and Joint walls

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is there any way of takeing the paper off with out needing to skim the walls! i find the paint come of with the lining paper and also leave a load of scratch marks on the walls..
 
Nightmare job mate! Normally takes the paper off the board too!! Or it loosens it to form blisters in your skim!! I find it easiest to give the walls a tight coat of bonding after the paper has been stripped then it skims up like new!
 
I'm gana WBA it well bond it.. then skim done b4 but just wanted 2 no if there was way of this not happening! lol
 
i used a steamer.. then found useing my spray bottle worked better by just gettin it reali wet.
 
good tip for stripping tough wallpaper. score horizontal lines with a knife in the paper.... then when u spray the wall with water, the water will run down the wall, in to the scored lines, soaking the backing of the paper, making it easy to scrape off.
 
That's true but you don't want to damage the plasterboard underneath with t&j walls. I prefer to remove paper by hand rather than steamer due to it melting the glue and leaving the sodding stuff behind, water and scraper takes it off in one go! No need to sugar soap (usually).
 
cant do that on a job were u want to keep the wall under it mate,also i have a tool that make 10000,00s of holes in paper to leet steam in :-)

i took the first layer of with lifting the edges with a shape chissle,then wet the lining paper up with my spray,then pulled it off quite easy.still took some paint with if from the wall ,witch left to much preping for painting.i found the steamer made the paper and paint all sticky on this job,so cold water in a spray worked reali well.
 
Talking about paper, I priced up a job once, someother guys been in to price before me, it was for a rental bloke, basically was to reskim a few rooms the ceilings which had wood chip on, the first guys had told this bloke they would skim over the paper!!! I told him no way, I didn't get the job because of the cost of stripping the paper, I've often wondered how they got on! Probably ok knowing bloody woodchip!!! :D
 
yeah i know...... it was just a general tip. what your trying to do is pretty much impossible because even if u did get the paper off with out damaging the walls, which i dought very much. u'd still have to remove every last bit of paste residue before painting, which u cant do unless there having new flooring or u remove the current flooring and replace afterwards, especialy wooden flooring.
 
i feel bad for the people as i told them we would see wots under the paperd rooms,im paintin the hole house and iv just skimmed all ceilings that were artex. nice people but now 4-5 rooms need skimmin that were sorta unplaned in there eyes i new sumit would need doin., i did say.but its put at least £1000 extra on the job.cant work 4 free but sum times u just feel like a cun*t! i might do it cheaper if the job goes well(wow wot a nice guy i am :-))
 
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