Q. I searched for and couldn't find any issues on good ways to remove wall paper. I have a room that has 30 years of old wallpaper on it, any ideas??? It is stuck! - Christina
A. This is for the person with the old wallpaper. Mix a solution of fabric softener and hot water 1/2 and 1/2 and put in a spray bottle. Spray the walls and start peeling. You can soak a rag and rub the wallpapered walls as well but the spray bottle is less messy. My wall paper was 20 years old and came off like a charm. Just clean the wall after with TSP (TSP is just the name of the product. I guess it is only available in Canada. It is a all purpose heavy duty cleaner in a granule form. It removes wax, grease, wallpaper residue, cleans concrete etc. I don't know what an equivalent would be that you could purchase in the US.) to remove the glue residue. - Monica
A. I saw this on "Trading Spaces"...you wet down the wall with a sponge, then with a scraper you take off the paper, for the STUCK on paper use the steam setting on the iron to lift it up then continue scraping. good luck - BB
A. Hi, Christina wanted to know about removing 30-year-old wallpaper, and said it was really stuck on. If it is really stuck on, then she doesn't have to remove it to ... Read the answers.
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I learned this from Martha Stewart. The wallpaper store has a product to remove wallpaper. It comes in a spray can. Sorry, I don't remember the name of it, but the clerk can certainly point it out. You spray it on, wait 5 minutes, and the sheets peel off in one piece! It was a good thing.
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