{"id":442,"date":"2007-08-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/techniques-for-wall-covering-removal"},"modified":"2007-08-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-25T00:00:00","slug":"techniques-for-wall-covering-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/consumer-guides\/techniques-for-wall-covering-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"Techniques for Wall Covering Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What kind of paper?<\/strong>: Uncoated wallpaper soaks up strippers readily. Or it can be soaked off the wall, paste and all, using hot water applied with a large sponge. This method, though messy, is simple and effective. But because the backing and paste stay on the wall, pros use hot water or a stripper.<\/p>\n<p>Professionally installed wallpaper frequently is tougher to remove than homeowner-hung paper. That&#8217;s because pros, often leery of factory-installed pastes, use unpasted papers and apply adhesive liberally, or they add an activator to prepasted versions to improve adhesion. Either way, they have to work a little harder to remove paper put up by a fellow pro.<\/p>\n<p>Vinyl-coated wallpapers &#8211; several layers of old paper, painted-over paper or a lightweight paper that can&#8217;t be pulled off &#8211; are even trickier. Water or stripper can&#8217;t penetrate these surfaces and attack the adhesive. The surface of the paper has to be scored &#8211; without carving up the wall &#8211; to expose the adhesive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What kind of paper?: Uncoated wallpaper soaks up strippers readily. Or it can be soaked off the wall, paste and all, using hot water applied with a large sponge. This method, though messy, is simple and effective. But because the backing and paste stay on the wall, pros use hot water or a stripper. Professionally &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-guides","category-walls-ceilings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}