Floral Wallpaper (Was: Talk like a pirate day)

[Jen Reese]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "ssk7882" <ssk7882 at y...> 
wrote:
> <despairing look>
> Should any of you ever need to remove vast quantities
> of over-glued wallpaper, by the way, a word of advice.
> Don't bother with renting a steamer.  Steamers don't 
> work.  The only thing that *does* work is a magical 
> solvent which goes by the trade-name of "Dif," very 
> warm water, metal scrapers, scrubby sponges, and 
> elbow grease.  Lots of elbow grease.  Sufficient 
> quantities of elbow grease, in fact, that earlier 
> this evening I found myself saying out loud, "You 
> know, maybe that lilac one -- or are those supposed 
> to be wisteria? -- well, whatever, anyway, that one 
> in the dining room...I mean, maybe that one isn't 
> really all *that* bad..." and then had to be held 
> down by my housemates and *slapped* until I recovered 
> my senses.


Oh yes, *Dif*--I got acquainted with Dif last year when we moved into 
a home with heinous (though not quite so floral) wallpaper that 
appeared to have a Permanent Sticking Charm on it.  I tried scraping, 
steaming, even incantations of the cussing variety, before going to 
Home Depot in desperation.  

There I found my Dif kit, complete with the fancy little doo-hickey 
scraper that doesn't take drywall off, like my previous efforts did, 
but only scrapes off bits at a time unless you get the lucky 
combination of solvent/loose paper. 

So, if you decide to keep the lilac wallpaper...hey, I for one 
wouldn't blame you. Jen