The most widely recognized finishing materialWallpaper is still the material of choice for walls. Excellent aesthetic qualities, a huge range of textures and colors, various prices, ease of pasting the room - these are the main advantages of this material.
Before pasting new wallpaper, you must remove the old one. However, problems and difficulties with cleaning old roll material often arise. How to remove wallpaper from walls with such an abundance of assortment?
Types of finishing material
Currently, there is a huge variety of wallpaper for pasting the walls of a room:
Different types of wallpaper can be pasted and removed in different ways, for which purpose there are symbols written on the packs.
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The general principle of removing old coatings
During repairs and decorations, you should know exactly how to remove liquid wallpaper or other roll coverings from apartments simply and quickly with your own hands. First, you need to prepare some tools:
- a metal spatula;
- Painting tape;
- screwdriver;
- stationery knife;
- means for removing wallpaper;
- steamer;
- a foam rubber sponge.
To make wallpaper removal faster and easieryou can use special tools. First, use a stationery knife to slowly tear off the wallpaper from the walls from the top. If necessary, turn off the electricity, remove lamps, sockets, switches. You can insulate the wall boxes with masking tape. Using a special product, for example, Fairy, wet the wall, do this from the floor to the ceiling. When the wall has absorbed some water, you can carefully remove the roll covering with a spatula or scraper. This procedure can be done with a steamer (steam iron). It is not advisable to moisten the wallpaper from plasterboard walls, because they can be removed together with the cardboard if this building material was not pre-primed before pasting. You can remove the wallpaper with specially prepared liquids. To make the removal effect faster and better, the surface must be cut, scratched with a knife, spatula, "wallpaper tiger". How to remove wallpaper glued with PVA glue? Carefully cut off a thin layer of cardboard with a painting knife. Before gluing them back on, be sure to prime the surface of the walls and let them dry. Return to Contents</a>
Features of removing various decorative coatings
Liquid wallpaper has become popular recently,which are firmly attached to the walls, especially if they were applied by high-quality, conscientious professionals. Liquid wallpaper consists of cellulose or cotton with the addition of dyes. The composition contains glue that dissolves in water, allowing this liquid wallpaper to stay on the surface. This coating is easy to apply and is easily removed from the surface, so there is no serious question about how to remove liquid wallpaper.
Liquid wallpaper is removed with a spatula after a generous amount ofwetting them with water. Even after drying, the glue can dissolve. In this case, you should wet the wall surface with water several times using a spray bottle, a foam sponge, or just a rag. When the liquid wallpaper increases in size, they should be scraped off with a spatula or scraper. The removed mass of this material can be reused if necessary. To quickly remove liquid wallpaper, you can use a steam remover, which heats and moistens. However, if the liquid wallpaper was applied in a thick layer, you will have to cover the entire surface with water several times. Liquid wallpaper is convenient in that it can be used repeatedly. The removed and dried material can be stored, and then, if desired, re-wetted and applied to the walls. Vinyl wallpaper has two layers. The top polyvinyl chloride layer provides moisture resistance, so it must be removed, and the bottom layer, if it is securely glued, can be left on. If necessary, you can remove washable paper wallpaper from the walls completely, first remove the top layer, wet the base with water, and then clean with a metal spatula. Non-woven, like washable wallpaper, has 2 layers. You can remove both layers, or just the top one, leaving the bottom one as a base for future rolls. Sometimes it is enough to lift the edge of the old wall coverings - and the entire strip comes off. But if this does not work, then the inner layer should be wetted with water and the wallpaper should be removed from the walls with a metal spatula.</ ul>
