The Best Way to Remove Wallpaper Glue
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
- In this video, Steve's Garage moves inside! I'm covering how to remove wallpaper glue in my laundry room. The wallpaper came off with ease, but it left behind a solid coating of wallpaper glue on the drywall. You can't paint or mud over wallpaper glue, so it has to be removed.
The easiest method to remove wallpaper glue from drywall is Zinsser Wallpaper Stripper. Zinsser Wallpaper Stripper has a very low odor which was great for my small laundry room, and worked excellent. Simply spray the Zinsser Wallpaper Stripper over a small area that has wallpaper glue on it, let it sit for a few minutes to break the glue down, and remove with a scraper or sponge. I found the scraper to be effective on smooth areas with a lot of wallpaper glue, but the sponge was great for cleaning up an uneven wall, or areas with just a little wallpaper glue residue left.
All the products I used were available at my local Home Depot, so those are the links I've included below. If you have any questions about Zinsser Wallpaper Stripper or removing wallpaper glue from your walls, leave a comment and I can help you out! Thanks for watching Steve's Garage.
Zinsser Wallpaper Stripper - www.homedepot.com/p/Zinsser-1...
Husky Floor Scraper - www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-4-i...
Grout Sponge - www.homedepot.com/p/QEP-7-1-2...
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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:13 - Tools I Used to Remove Wallpaper Glue
0:39 - How Zinsser Wallpaper Stripper Works
1:29 - Removal of Wallpaper Glue
1:59 - Before and After Wallpaper Glue Removal
2:07 - Tips and Tricks for Removing Wallpaper Glue
3:03 - My Experience Removing Wallpaper Glue
4:03 - How Much Zinsser Wallpaper Stripper Do You Need?
4:40 - Outro - Jak na to + styl
Thanks for sharing this technique. People were making it look semi-straight forward and your video looks much more like my awful wall. I’ll follow your tips!
Glad you found this helpful. I definitely agree that most videos seem to highlight a best case scenario, whereas my wall was anything but. I can say that after quite a bit of mudding (something I'm not good at) and some flat wall paint, it looks fantastic. Looking over the room you'd never know it ever looked like the mess I showed in the video. Good luck!
I am doing a bedroom right now, just using warm water with dish soap and baking soda. Works good.
Sometimes that's all you need. The spray is nice for more stubborn glue.
What is the process
Thank you! Informative video, great real-time example, and a comprehensive explanation.
You're welcome! Glad it helped out.
I find that it takes longer than 2 to 5 min, and a wipe down with a hot damp sponge first really helps
Warm water definitely helps more. You're right, time is totally subjective. I don't have a ton of experience with different glue, but different areas of my room had much different amounts of glue. Slow and steady is definitely the better way to go to avoid damage of the wall though.
Thank you for your work and for sharing
Thanks for watching and leaving a comment!
Dude wallpaper is the worst. Had to spend like two weeks scraping that stuff off the walls. We basically did the same thing after some trial and error, this would have been helpful as heck.
It truly is the worst. I still have more left outside the room, but kept myself to just taking it out of the laundry room since that's where I was working. I'm not ready to scrape mud and paint the kitchen and stairwell yet. Mine is at least painted gray so I don't have to look at some crazy walls, but you can see the texture and some bubbling if you look closely.
I've been using a steamer I have- but it makes such a gross mess. For as gross and messy it is, it doesn't even get a lot done. I'm going to try this, see if it's any cleaner/easier for awkward places.
I went straight to this method after a friend didn't have luck with a steamer and used this instead. Good luck, let me know how you make out!
Hi Steve, I’ve just removed some VERY OLD paper from a wall and it has left that old, hard, yellowed glue just like on your wall…my wall is old plaster. Will this product work okay on plaster? Thanks! Appreciate it.
I have zero experience with plaster walls, so I hesitate to give any advice as I wouldn't want to mess up your walls. Have you tried a wallpaper steamer? From what I've read a steamer works well on plaster. This product doesn't say you can't use it on plaster, so maybe test a small inconspicuous area first?
We have plaster walls, got the paper of now left with the glue. Will this work on plaster walls as well.
I would think that it shouldn't be an issue using it on plaster. I couldn't find anything that says not to. That being said, definitely test in a small area first, then work from there.
Do you have to remove the glue before skimming/ plastering? Or can you plaster over? Thanks
You do. The plaster/mud won't stick to wallpaper glue, even if it's dry.
Man that’s a lot of work, can they seal it with pva?
I don't have experience with PVA, but I'm pretty sure paint wont stick to it because it's waterproof. Sometimes there's no easy button.
quite a expensive way of getting rid of paste when you can just use warm water what is the zinsser gear 10-15 quid a bottle
If warm water works, that's great. It didn't work for me though, which is why this stuff was such a life saver. It cost me $15 for the gallon jug.
Wouldn't it be easier just to get it industrial steamer? They're not that expensive. And It's a lot quicker. I wasn't wanting to run all the way to go get mine. But I'm not going to spend more money on chemicals.
I had a friend use a similar spray after nothing else worked for them. So that's what I went for rather than buy a steamer that I won't use again. A steamer might be a better buy if you have a ton of wallpaper to remove, but I haven't used one so I can't say for sure.
I used a steamer today. The outer wall paper came off just fine but the glued backing stayed on. That portion pulls off in small pieces. I tried to go back and use the steamer on the glued layer but the sheet rock pulls off with it.