If you decide to change the look of your room, then you just need to re-paste the wallpaper. And, before you glue new ones, you must remove the old coatings. Removing old wallpaper from the walls is necessary for several reasons:
- even small fragments of old wallpaper will make the wall uneven, and these holes and tubercles will be clearly visible on the new coating;
- old wallpaper, sealed with a new cloth, getting wet from the glue, may fall behind the wall;
- under a layer of old wallpaper settles bacteria and mold, so they need to get rid of, removing such a coating.
To remove the wallpaper, you need to make considerable efforts. The speed and ease of such work will depend on the kind of old wallpaper and the type of glue that they have been glued to. So how quickly to tear off old wallpaper?
How to remove old vinyl wallpaper?
Vinyl wallpaper is a polyvinyl chloride film applied to a paper substrate, so removing such a canvas is quite simple. To do this, you have to scratch the wallpaper with a knife, moisten them well with water and after the liquid has penetrated under the canvas, remove the wallpaper by pulling the upper corners. Vinyl wallpaper will not burst, but will lag behind in whole strips.
How to remove washable wallpaper?
In order to quickly remove the washable old wallpaper, you have to cut them or holes on it so that the water gets on the glue and soak it. Then the wallpaper will be easily removed. Similarly, the walls and non-woven wallpaper are removed.
How to remove old paper wallpaper?
Paper wallpapers are the hardest to remove. Because they are very thin, they are easily torn, so they are separated in small pieces. To begin with, paper wallpapers must also be cut. Then, with warm water, into which you can add a conditioner for linen or vinegar, carefully moisten the wallpaper. After 20 minutes, using a spatula, we separate the wallpaper. The remaining pieces are wetted again and continue to scrape off the wall.
To remove the boring wallpaper, you can use a special liquid,
Some masters use a steam generator to take off old wallpaper. Paper and glue under the influence of hot steam can be easily removed from the walls.
If the wallpaper was pasted with a PVA glue or other insoluble glue in the water, then you can remove them by scraping manually. You can do this with a drill with a special nozzle, a grinding machine or a sharp spatula.
As you can see, there are several ways to quickly remove old wallpaper. Only after careful removal them will your renovated walls look beautiful.