Although liquid wallpaper and very high quality, beautiful, modern material, they cannot serve indefinitely. Therefore, the question arises how to remove them. This article will help solve the problem.
Content
Preparation
If you have liquid wallpaper, the question is how to remove them and not spoil hopelessly floor, sockets, switches, for you very important. Therefore, you should think about protection:
- malary scotch tape stuck the plinth. Subsequently, he will remove without leaving traces;
- so that the water and dust fell into the outlet, they also stuck in the same scotch;
- in the same way, we act with switches.
By prophylactic protection of the room, we collect the necessary tool and materials. It's important to know:
- if your liquid wallpapers are in their composition pieces of viscose, then they are reusable. Drying them, you can use such wallpapers again;
- it is more difficult to remove the wet wallpapers that resemble decorative plaster, not to do without a special tool.
Tool, Materials
If you need to remove wallpaper on a large area, you need to mechanize work, and for this you need to have:
- road industrial. Using this tool, work will be promoted not very quickly, but the consumption of electricity is tangible;
- as an alternative to Fenoa - grinding machine. Performance here will be higher, but dust is more.
If you need to remove liquid wallpapers on a small area, unless they were painted, it is possible to do it manually. You need the following for this:
- water, while it is better warm;
- spatula sharp;
- scraper;
- brush.
To quickly remove the liquid wallpaper, use:
- To add to the water to the tool you wash the dishes. Enough the spoon is two on 1 liter of water. Anything suitable, even liquid soap, but having such an experience, prefer Fairy (Fairy).
- Funds special. They are bought in a construction supermarket. For example, such a means like Methilan (Henkel Metylan), produced in Hungary, is used for any wallpaper. His advantages are that:
- there are no solvents;
- it does not smell;
- apply simply;
- acts quickly;
- for people harmlessly.
In addition to methylan, good recommendations for such a fund as Zinsser supplied from the United States. His cost is, of course, the same as in the pack of glue, but if you follow the instructions, the flow rate will be economical.
3. The mixture cooked personally, they say it is no worse than the purchased. Comprises:
- water - 5 l;
- vinegar - approximately 50 ml;
- ladst air conditioner or detergent as much as vinegar.
And here is another recipe:
- take glue for wallpaper;
- add it to a special means of type Zinsser or methilane;
- we stir up to getting a mass resembling jelly. The mixture is extremely effective.
How to remove liquid wallpaper. Technology
Consider the manual method:
- paint brush omit in hot water or in a cooked solution and wet some of the wall. At the same time, we take into account that if you moisten the wall with plenty of water, then the neighbors can take away from the bottom, and if small, then the wallpaper simply will not be blocked. Choose a gold middle;
- we wait until the coating is well absorbed the applied mixture or water;
- i scrape the liquid wallpaper with a spatula and a scraper;
- if the traces of the finish still remained on the surface, then we repeat the process.
We mechanize the process
If, when applying liquid wallpapers, very high quality glue was used or they were painted, or they applied them to the painted wall without preprocessing, then remove it hardly. In such cases, they are usually removed using:
- industrial hair dryer. Hot air from the hair dryer comes to the very base of the wallpaper and softens it, and then apply a scraper for final finishing removal. Of course, if the paint was under the wallpaper, then she will take off with them, so the wallpaper is no longer using. Get ready to work for a long time;
- grinding machine. It is necessary to press it with an effort, so considerable physical strength. Performance is not higher than in the case of a hairdryer, but the method is effective;
- bulgarians with a special nozzle and durable case. With this tool, the process of removing liquid wallpaper will go faster, but it is necessary to work carefully, because Bulgarian is more dangerous than straight grinding.
We do not delete, but we mask
The process of removing liquid wallpapers whose photo you see is rather a disguise.
It happens, remove them so hard that you just do not know how to do with them. And there is a yield: do so that you can apply a new finish. Start:
- we grind the entire surface using sandpaper or electric tool - the grinder with the nozzle, the grinding is straight. Protruding elements smoothing;
- apply soil, then putty;
- the dried surface is ready for any further finish;
- if the surface of liquid wallpapers is smooth, and you plan to apply others to them the same, then pass on them with a roller with needles or a knife. The resulting roughness will improve the clutch and new wallpapers will be kept hard.
How to manually remove the liquid wallpaper, the video transmits vividly with all the details. And after viewing, we can conclude that the technology is in general, the same for all types of this finishing material.
