wall paper o the ceiling? now that is a new one. remember contac
paper? one house we bought had contac paper on everything . the
paper came off easy it was the adheiseve that was a pain in the
tail.Lee
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at
05:41:58PM -1000, Betsy
Whitney wrote:
> 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
> >
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