I have 40 year old wall paper on my ceiling and i'm trying to scrap it off, any ideas?

I have had to remove old wallpaper before and what worked best for me was to...... Get a spray bottle and put warm to hot water in it and mix it with Downy fabric softener and spray it on the paper and let it sit for a few minutes and it will peel right off. The more you saturate it the better it works.

DO NOT USE A STEAMER. It will remove the wallpaper, but will also soften the drywall mud at your wall joints. When you scrape over those areas you will gouge the mud. The wallpaper will come off, but you will have a heck of a wall repair job ahead of you. SOURCE: Been there, done that.

DO NOT USE A SCORER. It will score not only the wallpaper, but the paper covering on the drywall. When the stripper is applied, it will take the paper off the wallboard. Since the surface the wallpaper adheres to is gone, so will the wallpaper. But again, you will have a heck of a wall repair job ahead of you. SOURCE: Many jobs repairing the walls of people who used "The Paper Tiger".

There is a very simple way to do it. At your home improvement store there is a product called DIF wallpaper stripper. They make a pre-mixed spray, and a dilutable liquid. Use the liquid. The spray will actually stain your walls.

Back at the house, peel the top layer of the wallpaper away. The waterproof surface will peel away from the paper backing pretty easily. Get as much of this off as you can. The "Paper Tiger" came about because strippers couldn't penetrate this surface. Little did they know the damage they wrought. Anyway, I've peeled wallpaper off that had been hung roughly around 1930, and I didn't have a problem getting it separated from the backing.

Then, mix the DIF with water as hot as you can stand it. Mix small quantities at a time so it stays hot. Use a sponge to wet, not dampen, an area - suggest no bigger than 2x2. Then use any scraper. I usually use a 3" wide putty knife. It doesn't have to be a razor (unless they put the wallpaper up w/ Super Glue).

This method will remove the paper, and do a good job on the paste as well.

Of course it didn't come off "very easily!" It 40 years old, like you said. It was meant to stay in place. It's going to be a hard job. You've got to buckle down and do it. The other answerers are under the impression that your methods didn't work at all. Reading your complaint carefully indicates that you're just not enjoying the work.

If you hate the hard work that much, your options would seem to lean toward covering it up with something else, or hiring a professional who's not afraid of some hard work and taking your cash.

hello ... it all depends on you there's the cheap way an one that might cost ya.''cheap way '' you tell it get off my wall now hehe im joking... ok cheap way is you put a garbage bag on the floor or just a sheet an u pull em off as much as you can a n then you take a sponge or rage with hot water an wet it for a few min an it should peel right off hint hint i know this because i was also cheap.......... mildly expensive way is you go to a wall paper store or the home depot an the have this thing in a bottle that removes wall paper but the cheap way is better i think the stuff in the bottle is just glue with wateran a lil stripper hot water works best an its free..........

I MYSELF AM TRYING TO REMOVE ABOUT 12 OR MORE LAYERS OF WHATS PROBABLY 50 YEAR OLD WALL PAPER ON THE WALLS OF AN OLD BEDROOM IM TRYING TO REMODEL. AFTER THE FIRST SEVERAL LAYERS IT WAS AND IS STILL VERY HARD TO REMOVE. I FIND IT EASIER WHEN I

CONCENTRATE ON ONE SMALL AREA AT A TIME AND WET IT WITH EXREMELY HOT WATER AND USING A SMALL PUTTY KNIFE TO HELP SCRAPE IT OFF. I HAVE FOUND THAT USING A PRODUCT CALLED GOO- GONE IN ADDITION TO LESS WATER HAS SEEMED TO WORK BETTER.

IF ALL YOUR EFFORTS FAIL, TRY PUTTING IN A DROP CEILING AND FORGET ABOUT THAT OLD STUFF.

BUT DO TRY GOO-GONE FIRST.

vinger and water in a spray bottle, srpay it and let it soak, then try to release a corner of it,so you can spray a little under it , it should start peeling off easily, just keep doing the steps a few feet at a time, hope it works for u it always has for me.

I redid an old house that was built in 1922 that had years and years of wall paper. The painters steamed all of it off.

Stop trying to scrape it off. Cover it with KILLZ and then paint it, recover it or spray it.

Wall paper that old is not going to come off.

25% vinegar and water, Spray it on let it set for about 10 min

fabric softener mixed with water. let it set for awhile.