Steam Wallpaper Stripper

fmlarnapairce · 21-08-2019 10:27AM #1

Have a few rooms to strip wallpaper from, can't decide whether to rent an industrial one from HSS or buy one for 40-60 euro online/woodies/b&Q
There would be a good few layers of paper to remove.
Has anyone any experience or recommendations on good machines I could buy, or would you go with a rental?
Thanks in advance

DublinDilbert · 21-08-2019 10:31AM

Argos one is fine for domestic use. Bought one 10+ years ago, has been used by friends and family and it is still fine. I think i paid €25-30 at the time.

JustMe,K · 21-08-2019 10:35AM

I'd buy one. Be careful though, its easy for the plaster underneath to blow!

fmlarnapairce · 21-08-2019 10:42AM

thanks, i'll make the purchase so

DublinDilbert · 21-08-2019 10:51AM

As long as you have no wood chip wallpaper that has been painted you will be fine, that stuff is a serious pain to remove.

fmlarnapairce · 21-08-2019 11:03AM

no wood chip, just 90 years of wallpaper! maybe a bit of an exaggeration, but not much!

Treppen · 22-08-2019 10:46AM

I rented one but they were no good. The 3 layers of wallpaper were there for decades and must have been put on with super glue. The top layer was painted over too.
In the end I got a utility knife blade and scored the heck out of the walls, then used one of those mist spray bottles with warm water little bit of sugar soap solution. Let it soak in, score another section,spray again, X 20.
Then it came right off with griddle scraper in large strips.

GreeBo · 22-08-2019 11:01AM

Its often easier to just reboard the walls....

stiofan85 · 22-08-2019 02:18PM

Treppen wrote: »

I rented one but they were no good. The 3 layers of wallpaper were there for decades and must have been put on with super glue. The top layer was painted over too.
In the end I got a utility knife blade and scored the heck out of the walls, then used one of those mist spray bottles with warm water little bit of sugar soap solution. Let it soak in, score another section,spray again, X 20.
Then it came right off with griddle scraper in large strips.

This is how you do it. I used the steamer on top, but the exact same approach. Lashings of water and scoring of the paper.

I bought a steamer, used it, then sold it on Adverts after so it only cost me about a tenner.

Treppen · 22-08-2019 02:52PM

GreeBo wrote: »

Its often easier to just reboard the walls....

Soooo tempted . Wallpaper is a curse like heroin, once you start with wallpaper there's no turning back.

Has anyone here ever painted over wallpaper?

listermint · 22-08-2019 03:00PM

Wall paper steamers for me just create mess and make the work harder

Having taken off woodchip from 4 rooms recently i can say the best investment i made was in two things

1- spiked roller
2 - Garden sprayer

spike the entire wall, spray the wall with 2 coats of wallpaper remover luke warm and leave it to soak in for half hour. Then strip it off with a wallpaper stripper. If you want a more efficient stripper get hold of a 10 inch plasters blade.

This method for me beat the steamer time in half.

GreeBo · 22-08-2019 03:36PM

listermint wrote: »

Wall paper steamers for me just create mess and make the work harder

Having taken off woodchip from 4 rooms recently i can say the best investment i made was in two things

1- spiked roller
2 - Garden sprayer

spike the entire wall, spray the wall with 2 coats of wallpaper remover luke warm and leave it to soak in for half hour. Then strip it off with a wallpaper stripper. If you want a more efficient stripper get hold of a 10 inch plasters blade.

This method for me beat the steamer time in half.

doing this on plastered walls is great, but doing it on plasterboarded walls can result in a bigger headache.

If the board paper gets wet the board loses its strength and the wall is fragile.
Or you can inadvertently be removing the board paper with the wallpaper.

listermint · 22-08-2019 03:39PM

GreeBo wrote: »

doing this on plastered walls is great, but doing it on plasterboarded walls can result in a bigger headache.

If the board paper gets wet the board loses its strength and the wall is fragile.
Or you can inadvertently be removing the board paper with the wallpaper.

What sort of pover has boarded walls!

Steam Wallpaper Stripper

Comments