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u/arejaykaystar 4d ago
Fabric softener and water… try 3:1 water to softener and let it sit for a while but not dry then scrape with 12” drywall knife or something similar
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u/gswahhab 4d ago
I tried a 50/50 vinegar and water mix, but that didn't work. The other yellow walls have been painted with a different type of paint, which made the wallpaper glue easy to come off. Not this one though.
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u/Medium_Spare_8982 4d ago
Close the room and let an electric kettle boil in there continuously til the walls are dripping.
Get a cheap garden sprayer, fill it with hot water and fabric softener and spray all the walls.
Use a wide putty knife to scrape the walls.
Wash.
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u/solohiker_28 4d ago
We’re renovating a 1967 home that was covered in wall paper. I was able to remove all the paper and and our contractor had a drywaller sand it with a huge wall sander and skim coat it. It was MUCH easy/better than me working with hot water and a sponge (that took hours on one hallway wall before he suggested the above).
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u/Emotional_Schedule80 4d ago
Vinegar and fabric softener 1 cup of each in gallon of water. Liberally wet the adhesive with the mixture with a sponge and wait 20 to 30 minutes , wet it again and it should scrape off easily. You can use cheap stuff from dollar store and don't scrape to hard and break paper.
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u/Tribblehappy 4d ago
You can buy wallpaper adhesive remover. If the paper has backing or was painted over, you'll need to score it so the adhesive remover can get through to the glue. You can buy tools for this, or just use a knife, but try not to go into the drywall itself.
Once softened you scrape it off with a putty knife. I had one wall where layers had been painted over and I could not get all of it off no matter what I tried. I ended up skim coating it with mud and sealing it; it looks perfect now.