Re: Wallpaper removal question


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In my case the wallpaper had brown backing. When was the hosue made?
If you have plaster walls, then the brown backing is definately from
the wallpaper, and needs to be removed. Anyone who puts wallpaper in
a bathroom should be drawn and quartered.

??? My bathrooms have ALWAYS had wallpaper and they've never peeled.
We
rarely run the exhaust fans when taking showers, either. I put
wallpaper
in my mother's bathroom 10 years ago, and it still looks great today,
with no peeling. What's the big deal? I can't understand how anyone
can
put up with flat, painted walls. No pattern, no texture. Yuck.

Different strokes for different folks, I guess- I hate wallpaper- makes
it

impossible to change anything mounted on the wall, patch holes, change
colors, etc. You want patterns, paint a mural or use stencils.

aem sends....

Again ??? How does wallpaper versus paint affect anything mounted on the
wall or patching holes? Paint is MUCH more of a hassle. With paint you
have
to fill the hole and then hope that your leftover paint is still good and
still matches the wall color. With wallpaper you don't even have to fill
the
hole if you're lazy, you slap a small piece of wallpaper over the hole,
use
a razor to cut a small, irregular circle through both the new piece and
what's on the wall, pull the cut out off the wall, and apply the new
patch.
Takes about 5 minutes, and it will always match.

If you were the one that papered the room, and if you thought to keep
a spare roll of the same pattern, that may be true. Ever try matching
20 year old wallpaper, on a house that had paper when you bought it?
To make it look right, I'm gonna have to strip entire room (including
pulling the vanity and WC for access), and either repaper, or skim-
coat and paint, all to patch a hole where a duct was removed.

Seriously thinking of cheating and mounting a mirror over the spot.

Yeah, I have good reason to dislike wallpaper.

aem sends...

Ok, THAT must be a total bummer. I always keep a spare roll or two when I
paper, and with my current house, I was fortunate to find a closet full of
wallpaper rolls which had been saved for at least 100 years. There was some
for every paper on the walls, and a TON of rolls which were no longer in
use. When I re-did the living room I found 6 layers of paper before I got to
the plaster (how lazy do you have to be to paper over paper?), and I had a
spare roll for each of those layers! I donated the stuff from the 1800s to
the local historical society. There was enough of one of the papers for them
to put it up in a hallway of their Victorian display house.


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