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The modern market offers a breathtaking choice of all sorts of wallpaper for any purpose. And so you bought the cherished rolls and want to quickly transform your home, but what about old wallpaper? Shoot or glue over? From the old wallpapers you certainly need to get rid of, and in this article we will tell how to remove the old wallpaper as quickly and easily.
Preparatory work
Before dying the old wallpaper, it is necessary to carry out some preparatory work, which will greatly facilitate the process.
Room cleaning
The removal of old wallpaper is a rather dusty and "trash" procedure, so before starting repair work, put all the furniture from the room, roll carpets and remove everything that can be blocked - decorative interior items, equipment, flowers, etc.
If the floor is removed by linoleum, after removing old wallpaper it will be easy to wash it. But in the case of parquet or carpet, problems may arise. Therefore, insert the floor under the walls of the oilcloth or old rag. The width of the coating should be at least 1 meter. In the process of removing wallpaper, all dust and small wallpaper particles will fall on it, so after the completion of the work you will only have to catch out litter, avoiding capital cleaning.
Removal of fastening elements
When the furniture is carried out, and the floor is led by a loaf, carefully inspect the walls. Surely in the room we were blocked or panels, hung shelves or decorative attributes. You need to examine each site and remove all nails, screws and other fasteners. First, accidentally missed carnations can spoil the appearance of future wallpaper. Secondly, you can hurt your hands very much, scolding the sharp edge of the nail. Therefore, it is better to be restrained and dismantled from the wall all that problems can bring.
Removal of old wallpaper
Remove the old wallpaper from the walls is pretty easy if you know some nuances. Thus, the strategy of your actions should depend on the type of wallpaper. For example, during the time of the USSR, before covering the wall with wallpaper, it was punishable by a newspaper, they say better to hold. Undoubtedly, in some apartments such wallpapers "alive" to this day. But how to be if the interior fashion of the last century has already bored, and skip the old wallpaper, tightly glued to the newspaper layer, does not work? Below we will look at ways to remove various wallpaper.
Paper wallpaper
Old paper wallpapers need to be taken "Izmor". Methodically wet the surface with warm water with a sponge or pulverizer. If you lived with unscrupulous owners, who blocked the wallpaper on top of the old, you will have to remove the coating with layers - there is nothing to do anything.
To make the most easily and quickly removing old wallpaper from the walls, start the bottom, hunching the bottom edge of the coating with a knife or spatula. Carefully pull a piece of wallpaper up, if necessary, helping him to turn off from the wall.
The remaining wallpaper pieces also need to be removed. It requires special accuracy, because if you damage the wall, you will have to plaster holes and irregularities.
Moisture-resistant wallpaper
If you were lucky enough to deal with moisture-resistant wallpaper, you won't go against them against them - the water just rolled along the hydrophobic layer on the floor. Knowledge of the structure of wallpaper will help here. Typically, water-repellent wallpaper is multi-layered, and removing the upper protective layer, you can get to ordinary paper, which, as already known, is removed by water.
If the water-repellent wallpaper is swallowlessly glued, then it is not necessary to remove the lower paper layer at all - it will become an excellent basis for sticking new wallpapers, ensuring excellent adhesion. If you still decide to complete removal, remove the water-repellent layer, carefully picing the wallpaper with a spatula and stretching upwards. The remaining paper cover is removed with a wet sponge and clean the spatula.
Fliselinova wallpaper
But in some cases, moisture-proof wallpapers behave not so well and are not resolve. In such a situation, it will have to be pretty tinted, taking the top protective layer with a spatula. Fliseline wallpapers are just being removed, but there is a couple of tricks that make you a task.
If the area is small, use a rigid metal brush (construction or for washing dishes). If you have to clear the big room, it is better to use the power tool, for example an ARM with a metal brush. But here everything is not so smooth, as I would like - the top layer is made of synthetic materials and quickly scores the brush of the device, so it will have to be quite often clean. However, perfectionism here, and to remove the phlizelin wallpaper, you only need to clean the surface well, and not clean the wallpaper completely. After that - water, spatula and already familiar manipulations.
How to remove old wallpaper from walls pasted on water filum glue
Glue wallpaper on water filter glue, or simply PVA, probably the most unsuccessful idea. And in the "happy randomness" in the generous Soviet times, such builders, adhesive wallpapers, then "bustilat" were quite often. Why does PVA not suitable for sticking wallpaper, because he truly holds well? That's the problem - he keeps too well. After soaring, the water-polymer glue is not dismissed and dissolved by water, so it will be very difficult to remove such wallpaper.
If you are faced with wallpaper pasted on PVA, it is worth seriously thinking about other ways to finish the wall. Remove old wallpaper without damaging the wall surface, you will not succeed. Of course, you can spend on plaster and punish new wallpapers, but it is worth considering and less labor-intensive options. For example, to strip the wall with plasterboard, which will save a lot of strength, time, and will give a better result. Plasterboard will warm the walls, will provide sound insulation and will allow any repair, ranging from sticking new wallpapers, ending with artistic mosaic.
But back to removal of wallpapers pasted on PVA. It will not be possible to twist them, no matter how try, so basking with patience and tools. Sitted wallpaper will have literally centimeter behind a centimeter sharpened spatula or scraper. If you can use the enrollment mill, which is designed specifically for stripping of the plated or painted surfaces.
How to spare old wallpapers from drywall
The complexity of working with plasterboard is that during removal of wallpaper, a paper layer may suffer on the surface of the material. For this reason, ordinary water can not do here. Use special means to dissolve the wallpaper glue that can be found in specialized construction stores. You can wet the wallpaper with water, but not plentiful - so as not to twist the plasterboard. If the wallpaper is pasted on the PVA, the plasterboard will have to be completely changed.
Useful trick: One day someone tried to remove old wallpaper instead of water to use hot couples, and it turned out! Follow the "hard" places with an iron with a sweeping function or steam generator, and the wallpaper will quickly disappear.
Why not glue wallpaper on old wallpaper
If it seems to you that sticking new wallpapers to the old - a good idea that will save time and strength, we recommend to think about the consequences for a second. What is the wallpaper? This coating, which was a few long years in contact with things, human skin (later, mud), absorbed various odors, microbes during diseases ... Now imagine that under your beautiful new wallpaper there will be such a dirty harmful layer, and after all New wallpapers will eventually become the same. Old wallpaper increases the humidity in the room and can provoke infection with fungi and mold.
The removal of the wallpaper is inevitable, so come to accept this and use one of the above methods. Light repair!
