Oh Jennifer, I feel the pain in your shoulders... Back in 1974, we bought a hundred-year-old apartment building. In one of the units, they had put up wallpaper on the ceiling. I thought it would be a snap to remove. The absolute truth is that on the ceiling, there were a total of 12 layers of paper, and about every third of fourth layer, they had simply painted the paper. The ceilings were 14 feet high, so it was about renting scaffolding and wallpaper steamers. It took four adults nearly 3 days to get that stuff down. Best, Betsy At 04:49 PM 3/2/2009, you wrote:
>I hate removing wallpaper from panelling. i do not know who thought >it was a good idea to put up the wall paper straight over the >panneling, but they did an interesting job. There are places where >the stuff practically popped off with a little pull, then other >places where there is a huge amount of adhesive holding it on. > >Now the wall paper was beautiful. The thing was the places it was >popping off were a little to interesting to my littlest kid. My >husband saw the panelling and was excited to have that instead so we >went for the removal instead of the regluing and hoping. *smile* It >seemed like it was going to be easy. > >So, back to work for me. > >Jennifer > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
