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Wallpaper Removal Nightmare! Help!! Our dining room had some horrible awful waterproof paper on walls...?
The UNpainted and UN primed walls. After scoring, spraying, scrubbing and repeating the process over and over I finally was able to remove the wallpaper, but not without leaving behind almost all of the wallpaper paste, and ripping up the drywall paper in the spaces where the glue came up (obviously the glue came up WITH the drywall backing). I spent about two hours trying to scrape and scrub the glue off of the drywall, and the 3ft square that I worked on, I managed to scrub/scrape off the drywall paper. layers and layers were coming off. There is no way that I will be able to finish the project without practically covering the wall in Spackle. My husband thinks that we should just spackle over the entire wall, over all of the paste. will this work? CAN I spackle over wallpaper glue? Im afraid it will flake and chip off. What can I do?
7 Answers
- OxoboxoLv 48 years ago
You need to remove all of the paste and not use spackle but drywall compound and skim the entire effected areas. There are wallpaper paste removers and sponges with scrub backs that are sold at any Home Depot, etc. It is a very tedious task and will require much time and scrubbing. You will need to change the bucket of water occassionaly. If you don't have the skill to skim the wallboard with joint compound then look for a local handy man to do it for you. It will need very minimal sanding if it is skimmed correctly. Another possibility is to buy 1/4" sheetrock and apply it over the existing drywall. This takes more skill and would also need the services of someone that knows how to do it. I just had a similar situation on a kitchen remodel I am doing and it took one of my laborers about three days (24 man hrs) to get all of the glue off a wall that was a little over 100 sq. ft. The skimming of the compound is a very quick job so a the local handyman shouldn't have to charge you too much. You probably can do the finish sanding yourself.
Source(s): Contractor 23 yrs. - Jeff DLv 78 years ago
I feel your pain because I've been there. The lowest rung of hell should be reserved for those who wallpaper over bare drywall. One thing you didn't mention: have you tried a steamer? You'll still have to score the wallpaper, but a steamer can be effective in some circumstances.
I would get off as much of the wallpaper as possible (don't worry as much about the glue and backing). Then, hire a professional plasterer to apply a skimcoat over the whole wall (don't try to spackle the whole thing yourself, you'll never get it looking good).
Good luck.
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- Anonymous8 years ago
Joint compound over glue will bubble and separate from the wall. Remove all the adhesive, and skim coat the entire room. Prime with alkyd primer, and then paint.
- 8 years ago
you can try to re-drywall the entire area they do have 1/4" x 4" x 8"dry wall sheets that works well..This is what I did.
- ?Lv 44 years ago
Cream, no longer magnolia that is lighter than that. i'm thinking of adorning before christmas although. probable save to cream and upload faded blue, as i'm having laminate down too.
