Removing wallpaper with gloss paint on top!?

Hello all! me and my mum just moved into a new house but the person before us had wallpaper in the bathroom and painted it over with gloss paint!


how would we removed this?Removing wallpaper with gloss paint on top!?
With a lot of elbow grease. I helped a friend do their flat, the kitchen had black glossed wallpaper which was a nightmare to remove, we basically turned the kitchen into a sauna with pots of water boiling for ages, we had previously scored all the paper to allow moisture thru. I think your best bet is to either buy or hire a steam wall paper stripper and leave it steaming for a while in there then use it as you should. It will still take a fair bit of work if my mates kitchen is anything to bo by.





Good luckRemoving wallpaper with gloss paint on top!?
It really depends on what you want to accomplish in the end. If you are going to hang new paper, then yes, you will most likely have to do some steaming. I would suggest deglossing the current paint so that you can open up the surface (pores) so the paint can accept the steam and I only know of 2 ways to that: 1-Use Lacquer retarder. It's very volatile but it will work. Read the directions carefully and wear heavy duty gloves. 2-Use a liquid sand paper, much less volatile but still no walk in the park. Fairly safe though. Both these products will cut the sheen on the paint. Without that step, unless the paper is already peeling, you are pretty much out of luck.





If you want to just repaint or texture and the seams in the paper are glued down tight enough, you can simply use a high adhesion primer and go over the top of it with joint compound and create the texture you want, then prime again and paint it. We have done it many times in our business but only when there's tight adhesion on the existing paper.
Your gloss paint is waterproof and no amount of soaking or filling baths up with hot water will make any difference.





If you go to a proper decorators merchants you might get a dry stripper which amounts to a 4 inch stanley blade on a handle, another is two similar blades in a chevron. They cut the paper and slide under. Hard work, but the fastest.





If you rent a good steamer it 'might' soften the paper so you can get under it, but you'll be there all day doing it.
You could try a steamer which you should be able to hire, but I doubt that it will be easy. Other than that I would use a flat scraper to very carefully scrape away the paint %26amp; top layer of paper a bit at a time (don't be too enthusiastic!) Once that is removed wet the remainder (you can get stripping liquid but I prefer detergent and water) and it should come away quite easily.





Good Luck! I don't envy you that task.
get a big hand brush, a bucket of hot soapy water, a filling knife and a scraper





soak the wall with the water using the brush and try to get as much of the bubbles on, leave for 5-10 mins then soak again, try and see if the paper will come off if not keep soaking





steamers are more trouble than they are worth
score the paper first using a wire brush and elbow grease, then soak with warm water and leave for 20min. then soak again and try removing with a paint scraper. more scoring and soaking may be required but will work.
cant argue with taf on this one.the scraper he is talking about is sometimes called a bealine scraper.


24 years as a decorator.
a steamer would help. But as in bathroom fill bath with boiling water close the door and after 15 mins replace water close door and scrape away, should be very easy
I would try fabric softener and water. But it in a spray bottle and spray some on the peel it off. It works amazingly!
if you can't get a steamer, try spraying it with hot water and letting it set for a while, but not untill its dry