Wallpaper gluing is very responsible. In order to do this qualitatively, you must prepare the walls before gluing. In particular, they need to be cleaned of layers of paint, dirt, dust and, of course, from old wallpaper. It must be done without fail, otherwise you risk ruining your new wallpaper with ugly bulges and mounds. This can happen, because the glue applied to the new wallpaper will soften and the layer of the old coating, and it will start to fall behind the walls in places.
So, first you need to prepare a room for the work: close the furniture with foil, remove the carpets and seal out the rosettes with paint tape. If there is no furniture in the room or you decided to take it out, you can glue the building film to the baseboards with the same adhesive tape so that you can quickly eliminate all the garbage. In case you are going to use water or liquid means for removing wallpaper, you must first turn off the electricity in the apartment.
To remove the old wallpaper, you will have to spend some effort, and which - it depends on the type of pasted wallpaper and the quality of the gluing. We offer you several effective ways of how you can quickly tear off old wallpaper from the walls.
Old wallpaper, which were pasted poorly or simply for a long time, you can try to remove manually. To do this, pick up the bottom edge of the sheet with a sharp knife and pull it upwards. If the wallpaper will easily break away from the wall, you will not have much difficulty quickly clearing them of the entire room.
How to quickly remove old paper wallpaper with water?
Normal water is the best suited for tearing down old wallpaper. To do this, you need to properly moisten the walls with a roller or spray (preferably twice) and allow the wallpaper to get wet well. As soon as bubbles appear on their surface, start tearing off the wallpaper from the walls, if necessary, helping yourself with a wide and sharp spatula. It is desirable to take water hot or at least warm - so the process will go many times faster. For the same purpose, you can add a little dishwashing liquid to it.
Steam is the same water, but working with it is much more convenient. To remove the remnants of wallpaper that do not want to lag behind, use the iron, And if you have a steam generator or an iron with a vertical steaming function, then with it you can handle old wallpaper much faster than using a roller.
In addition to water and steam, in the fight against old wallpaper will help special tools for their removal - sometimes they are called "anti-wallpaper." They are sold in building stores in a wide range. These fluids and gels are absolutely harmless, non-toxic and easy to use. The most popular products are from one line with wallpaper glues, such as KLEO and Quelyd Dissoucol.
How to quickly remove washable vinyl and non-woven wallpaper?
As for the dense wallpaper, having several layers, stripping them, oddly enough, is much easier than paper. The only difficulty is that you will have to scratch the wallpaper all over the area using a needle roller or a so-called wallpapered tiger. After that, using the technology of water or steam described above, moisten the wallpaper with water and wait 10-15 minutes,
The easiest way is with vinyl wallpaper - they consist of two layers. Scratching the vinyl layer, you open the water access to the paper, which easily and quickly soaks and makes it easier to remove the wallpaper.
Non-woven wallpaper, however, has a layer of synthetic fibers, more durable than paper. They need to be removed more slowly, making an effort. In this case, it's better to start from the top edge.
Knowing the technology of removing wallpaper, prepare a room for repair is not as difficult as it seems at first glance.