HOW TO REMOVE ANCIENT VARNISHED WALLPAPERS!!

alzheimer | 17:04 Mon 11th Jan 2010 | Interiors

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My friend has bought an old house that needs redecorating throughout - and has found out the hard way - that many of the rooms and corridors have many layers of wallpaper....like six or seven! Unfortunately one of the original wallpapers is/was dark brown and was varnished...EEEK! Of course the modern wallpaper strippers are for water based pastes - and do not work with varnish - which is virtually impossible to get off!!
Has anybody out there any suggestions please as it is going to take about a week per wall to get back to the plaster!! Help please!!

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Score it with a stanley knife, then wet it, leave it for an hour and wet it again then try steaming it.
You can still buy that kind of paper, it's very very expensive.

alzheimer

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Hi there - thanks BUT sadly that idea doesn't work....the Stanley knife bit does but the trouble is that the offending brown paper is about ten layers down and was varnished over many times by the look of it then papered over again and again - probably years or decades later..... It is that old a house! If you wet old varnish it turns into glue - he tried that and came unstuck...or maybe I should say stuck....eugh!!!
Probably the last owner gave up too and just applied yet another layer of paper LOL

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