Remove Woodchip Wallpaper - DIY Removal Guide

• Remove woodchip wallpaper
  • Removable wallpaper
  • Soaking woodchip wallpaper
  • Wallpaper stripper
  • Remove liquid wallpaper
  • Prepare underground
• Instructional Video

Removing woodchip wallpaper can be very easy, but can also lead to huge workload. Here you will learn how to quickly and without residue remove woodchip wallpaper.

The old Raubasertapete, the layer 7 to 37 forms on the wall, must eventually off - urgently, if the wall is underneath probably not in good condition, or if even mild mold "fragrances" through the room. If you are in the process of making an old house habitable again, and you are under enormous time pressure anyway, because the apartment has already been quit, you can stick to it and paint it over. But if you want to give your rooms a new shine, for example, with a decorative pattern wallpaper, the woodchip must first off. This can easily be a ordeal, color layers were applied over years on the wallpaper. Exactly this color makes it so difficult in the end to remove woodchips residue and quickly.

Remove woodchip wallpaper

Wood chips are basically removed like all other wallpapers - the principle is based on four work steps that can vary from room to room and depending on the wallpaper: perforating, moistening, filling and post-processing.

Removable wallpaper

Her predecessors used removable wallpaper. Then you do not need to moisten, soak, trowel - just pull on the dry wallpaper, up or down on the whole web.

The same applies to fissile wallpapers, where the top layer can be removed without pretreatment; the lower one remains as a waste on the wall for the next wallpaper.

Unfortunately, this rarely happens, "concrete on the wall" is more likely.

Soaking woodchip wallpaper

Most old wallpapers adhere more persistently, here it needs work. First perforate the woodchip wallpaper with a hedgehog roller and then soften with warm water. The water can be applied with a deep brush (large, soft brush) or puff, possibly with a large-volume spray bottle or with the steam cleaner.

The steam cleaner is particularly helpful here - sprayed-on steam penetrates well into the perforated wallpaper and softens quickly. First try to start a path in one of the lower corners and pull it completely upwards. If no steam cleaner is in the house or to borrow, you can soak the woodchip in sensitive environment also piece by piece with the sponge, so you do not get the mold in the house during the renovation.

Wallpaper stripper

If you want to get the only layer of woodchip wallpaper off the wall because you want to make a beautifully plain wall, you might already be lucky with pure water, as just described.

The reality is often different: crowds of previous owners or previous tenants who have immortalized themselves on the wall with a new layer of wallpaper, a new layer of paint, or even a few fattened dowel holes, make smooth wallpaper peeling almost impossible.

The solution is wallpaper strippers. This is simply stirred in a bucket of water and applied to the wall. The Metylan wallpaper remover Expert, which is mixed with gel, sticks to the wallpaper and does not splash through the area. With a price of about 7, - € for 50 square meters (manufacturer, experience, you need more) costs the first shift in a 25-square-foot space already almost 10, - € - many layers can go there already in the money.

In addition to the high cost, wallpaper detacher according to eco-test is not necessarily harmless: wallpaper peelers in the test

Above all, allergy sufferers or people who have to deal with incompatibilities, should keep away from it.

Some wallpaper removers contain aggressive preservatives - for example, formaldehyde / cleavage agent, a substance suspected of causing cancer. If the release agent is preserved with isothiazolinone, this does not always tell you the packaging and just as many additives can hide behind the term "additives". These are not listed individually.

According to eco-test a splash of detergent in the soaking water works almost as well. What dissolves in the wallpaper remover, is also just a surfactant, a washing-active substance. So to be careful use the good old detergent.

Remove liquid wallpaper

Even with liquid wallpaper (liquid woodchip), it is first worth checking whether it really needs to be removed.

Some liquid wallpaper can be painted over with wall paint, which should tell you the manufacturer of color and wallpaper.

On some liquid wallpaper you can also simply apply a new liquid wallpaper, possibly with a special primer in between. If and how this works, you can usually tell the manufacturer of the envisaged liquid wallpaper. This double layer should even have a certain positive effect - it should increase the thermal insulation and sound insulation.

How to remove liquid wallpaper and make it easy depends on what it consists of:

Expensive cotton wallpaper

• moisten with flower sprayer
• soak for a quarter of an hour
• Binder becomes viscous again
• Slide the wallpaper off the wall with a spatula
• if necessary, rewet again
• work on larger surfaces with a steam device
• Cotton wallpaper without problematic additives can be disposed of with household waste

Normal "liquid woodchip"

If water is included as a base in the liquid woodchip, then it can also be removed with water. By soaking the wallpaper is first dissolved and then pushed with the scraper from the wall. If water-resistant solvent has been used in the material, it will not be so easy

If the liquid wallpaper contains glue components, the wall can usually be soaked with water and the paint then scraped off.

In extreme cases, the liquid laser fiber consists of plastic-containing emulsion paint and shredded chipboard for the structure. You can then grind such liquid woodchip from the wall with the orbital sander, unfortunately only with unpleasant dust. Well suited, but associated with costs, is the long-neck sander with dust extraction, which you can borrow at the hardware store. A possible alternative is to plaster the walls completely with the gypsum filler or to paper over the liquid wallpaper normal Raspasertapete (possibly before a little grind to remove the largest bumps of the). Then you should but a few strips of waste paper stick under the seams, so that they do not rise.

Prepare underground

If the wall is to be re-wallpapered immediately, the substrate must be prepared for the next wallpapering.

How you do that, of course, depends on the condition of the wall, the above examples have already shown you the possible variance. When finished, the substrate must be firm, smooth, even and evenly absorbent.

In the case of the "average preserved ground", the following work might be necessary:

• remove all loose parts
• Fill holes and bumps
• coat smaller (dry) water stains and rust stains with insulating base
• Smooth and grind wall
• Prime wall to make the substrate evenly and absorbent
• Use a primer that suits the subsequent treatment - when wallpapering z. Eg with diluted paste (normal paste: 1: 7)
• if the surface is very rough, use scrap paper - it fills the pores
• deep absorbent or sandy plaster, as well as gypsum plasterboard, will remove the deep background
• Wallpaper change eases the next wallpapering, but reduces (such as depth) the absorbency of the wall for

Of course, if you have prepared the ground for the redesign, you do not necessarily have to wallpaper again.

Especially in the worst case, when under the old Raspasertete interesting moldy landscapes emerge, you lose a lot of time, because the mold on the wall must be treated. Depending on the degree of infestation that takes several weeks.

Once the mold is gone, you could save wallpapering and apply lime plaster and / or lime paint instead.

Plastered walls are trendy and a nice alternative to boring woodchip wood. Many people do without wallpaper and just for design reasons. In addition - lime is an excellent mold prevention. Mold needs organic matter and moisture to exist. Limescale balances moisture and is mineral, so let the mold starve.

This can be the elegant, very smooth wall, great in but not easy to make. But you can also bring all kinds of structural plaster on the wall, which is cozy to alive and can be painted in all sorts of earth colors.

Instructional Video

The detailed steps can be followed in this video.