WHAT A JOB!!!

I Spend A lot of my time Now I Have Retired, Decorating. As I Have Three Daughters and other (outlaws ):WINK1:.
Today I Was Preparing ,My Sister (outlaw's ) Kitchen and it turned out to be the Worst Wallpaper Stripping job I have ever had in my life. I started To Use the Wallpaper Steam Stripper, I gave Up After Some Time ,the paper was only coming off in small strips. . I Went Back To The Old System, Hot Soapy Water and totally soaked the walls.!! I was Amazed at the amount of Wallpaper on the Walls ,and they were ALL VINYL COATED
In Total there were 4 Layers of Vinyl coated paper on the walls. I found some paper, and by the pattern must have been there when the house was built :th_scifD36: so these people just pasted paper on top /on top /on top/on top.. I finished the Wallpaper Stripping tonight ,took the walls right back to the plaster, and the kitchen looks bigger now. my sister in law wants the wall's, Powder Blue , Door lintels,white , doors dark oak to match the Windows and her flooring and kitchen units . with a bit of luck i will finish on Friday.


Hope The Next Job Will Be Easier :D

 

Hope you didn't destroy any historic wallpaper there,

http://www.buildingconservation.com/articles/wallpap/wallpap.htm

Imagine if it was vinyl/woodchip/vinyl/woodchip:DOH:

 

found a brill way to remove paper easy even multi layers ... perforate paper with one of those stripper wheels from b&q then spray a mix of lenor and water leave for 10 mins soak again and strip sssiiimmmppplleess

 

Now I know why I avoid jobs like that..

 

Iv'e had all those wallpaper nightmares and as John WK says and in my opinion gloss woodchip has to be the worst. I had to use a spike roller before any water would penetrate.
We are looking for a bungalow to move to and I think for the first time I will be looking for bare walls!!

Best of luck John, hope it all goes well.