Brad and I took the opportunity today after closing and lunch to test out our wallpaper removal skills. We started in the dining room. The top layer of the wallpaper peeled right off. Hooray! We then used DIF (better living through chemicals!) to remove the glue and bottom paper layer. I started on a tester patch with a spray bottle. We quickly abandoned that in favor of the super-powered garden sprayer.
Brad is pretty good at this - he managed to remove an entire sheet in 1 piece. I think I should let him do the rest. :o) Oh - the respirator is a little overkill. The DIF doesn't really smell that much.
After about 2 hours of work, we had a portion of 1 wall completely cleared and the topping paper off of all of the walls. Once we get the rest of the floor and windows taped off, it seems like it will go pretty quickly.
While we still had some light and before we had to clean up to pick Sydney up from school, we decided to see how difficult it's going to be to get the wallpaper off of Sydney's walls. So, we headed upstairs. And, great news! The wallpaper comes off very easily. Is there bad news? Oh, you bet! I should say that the TOP layer of wallpaper comes off very easily. There's another layer of wallpaper under it and that layer has the added benefit of having been painted over. Flowery wallpaper (the yellowing part) + gray paint + more wallpaper (tan diamond pattern) = Sydney's walls. Hooray!
This is going to take a lot of elbow grease. Another survey of the upstairs found that the hallway is painted over wallpaper, as is the stairwell. Awesome. We'll be pulling wallpaper until the cows come home. Oof.
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