How to remove wallpaper
Get everything ready before you get started, and be patient.
1) Prepare the room to have the wallpaper removed by moving all the furniture in the room to the center of the room and covering it with plastic or a clean painter’s cloth. You need everything away from the walls, and enough room to work in the space between the furniture and the walls. You want to place drop cloths all around the walls at least 2 feet out from the walls.
2) You will now want to score the wallpaper with a wall paper scorer. These are a tool that has a wheel with spikes on it that you can run up and down the wallpaper in order to “score” the wallpaper. By scoring the wallpaper you are loosening it up, and allowing an inlet for fluid and air to get into and underneath the wallpaper.
3) After you have thoroughly scored the wallpaper, go ahead and mix your solution. While there are many pre-mixed solutions out there, they will never be as good as hot water and liquid fabric softener. Start up a large cooking pot with water, (at least 3 gallons) bring it to a boil, then remove from flame. Let it sit for 5 minutes and then add three cups of fabric softener and mix thoroughly. Put the mixture in a spray bottle with fairly good nozzle control.
4) Take a 3 foot by 3 foot section and saturate it with your hot water and fabric softener solution. Really saturate the walls, you want to get as much of the mix in and on and under the wallpaper as possible. Move quickly, you do not want to allow your solution to cool too much, hot or very warm water is the best. Some people like to use a large sponge for applying the solution, whatever works best for you, and is getting the most solution behind the wallpaper will be the best way for you. Try both to see which works better. Do not forget, you are saturating the walls and wallpaper, not just misting them.
5) Start stripping the wallpaper off of the wall, starting from the bottom first. You can use a putty knife to help get the wallpaper started, but again, you will need to move pretty quickly. Sometimes it is best to do one wall at a time, and then move on to the next wall when ready. Does not worry if small strips are left behind; just carefully scrape them off of the wall with your putty knife. Be careful not to gouge your walls with the putty knife.
6) Clean up the remainder of the stuck glue and strips of wallpaper with a bristled scrub brush and warm water, with no solution in it. Clean the entire portion of the wall that you stripped in this fashion, warm water and a bristle brush.
7) Take a towel and rinse it in clean hot water, them wring out the excess. Quickly and with broad strokes wipe the wall clean of all debris and left-over solution. Allow wall to stand for about 30 minutes, and then repeat this process. You are essentially rinsing the wall. After the 2nd rinsing you can allow the wall to dry completely. After checking for any left-over residue of any kind, you will be done!
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