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Wallpaper strippers

  • 17-08-2005 9:26am
    #1
    chabsey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭


    Anyone ever used one of those steamer wallpaper strippers? The ones you fill a tank with water and then it pumps steam for an hour or so while you hold it to the wall.

    Question is, are they any good or should I just go with the old scraper method? Assuming that the wallpaper I'm stripping isn't 52 layers think and flock!


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  • #2
    dools
    Closed Accounts Posts: 189 ✭✭dools


    Hi Chabsey,

    we have just removed the wallpaper from about 4 rooms with one of these steamers and they are great! I would deffo recommend them.

    The knack is to get a continuous movement going - steam a bit and then move it gradually across the wall following behind with the scraper. There were 3 layers of paper in our Dining room and all came off easily with the steamer - in some cases you may have to remove the paper one layer at a time, depending on the type of paper.

    The water lasts for ages in them. You have to be careful of them 'spitting' though when you refill with water and it comes to the boil

    Have fun...

    Dools


  • #3
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,499 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Agreed! Best thing we ever bought. As dools said you have to get a bit of a rhythm going ... scrape the bit you've just steamed while steaming a new bit, and it can get pretty hot in the room so keep a window open and don't dress too warmly :)

    The only thing to watch for is if, like in our house, the eejits who built it wallpapered directly on top of the plasterboard without skimming it first, you can lift the paper lining off the plasterboard if you're a bit too heavy handed with the steam.


  • #4
    LegacyUser
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    Also - be very careful if you use a steamer with walls that have old plaster. It can actually crack the plaster and it can fall off in bits!!

    I'd recommend, as you come to a wall - test to see what type of a surface is beneath the wallpaper first. If that means getting a small bottle of wallpaper stripper and taking a wee bit off each wall as you come to it. In my house the front an back walls are skimmed / some plaster - the rest is just plasterboard. The fireplace wall was solid plaster (well a lot of plaster). My steam cracked it - had to cover up with polly fill and sand down the damage.

    Just heads up - steamers are great!! No doubt about it - but test your walls first.


  • #5
    chabsey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭chabsey


    Thanks for the replies guys.


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