Strip serious amounts of wallpaper?

[SimonR]

Steamer and plaster failure normally equates to operator error. Never blown plaster in any of the 4 houses I have lived in.

 

[Ayahuasca]

Steamer has always worked fine for us, it's still a ballache of a process but better than standing and scraping tiny bits off at a time!

 

[theone8181]

Steamer has always worked fine for us, it's still a ballache of a process but better than standing and scraping tiny bits off at a time!

I think it's a find line. If you get the backing paper damp it comes off easily, but I find if you overwet it (I know not a real word), it seems to come off in annoyingly small pieces.

 

[gc123]

I think it's a find line. If you get the backing paper damp it comes off easily, but I find if you overwet it (I know not a real word), it seems to come off in annoyingly small pieces.

true always worked for me in fact bought a cheap one from screwfix worked lovely just dont get the wall too wet

 

[Werewolf]

We've been using this sort of roller for the last couple of rooms, you use it like the karate kid "wax on, wax off", it's easier to use than the spiked roller on a pole and seems to work better.

As for the steamer, we've got an ancient one (bought from homebase ~30 years ago*) that works wonders, but if the plaster is dodgy it will cause it to blow, unfortunately for us when we last used it the hallway plaster was blown in several places (a couple we knew about but thought we'd repaired during the last strip).


*Built like a tank compared to most of the modern ones.

 

[mattyg]

My first renovation had wood chip on the walls AND ceiling... I got 2 Steamers hung them on the walls closed the door and went and had lunch.
Took 25 mins to strip the paper after that. The ceiling paper came down in strips and only some bits of the paper on the walls low down were a pain.

Used that method ever since