Comments on: Tips On Hanging Wallpaper http://toolmonger.com/2007/05/30/tips-on-hanging-wallpaper/ All tools. All the time. Your source for news, information, and reviews of hand tools, power tools, and tools of all kinds. Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:10:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Weldo http://toolmonger.com/2007/05/30/tips-on-hanging-wallpaper/#comment-70115 Wed, 30 May 2007 19:17:06 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2007/05/30/tips-on-hanging-wallpaper/#comment-70115 Here's a tip. DO NOT squeegee so hard that the messy gooey stuff some from behind the paper. Turns out that's the glue that would've held the paper to the wall. Live and learn, I guess. Here’s a tip. DO NOT squeegee so hard that the messy gooey stuff some from behind the paper. Turns out that’s the glue that would’ve held the paper to the wall.

Live and learn, I guess.

]]> by: benjamen http://toolmonger.com/2007/05/30/tips-on-hanging-wallpaper/#comment-70109 Wed, 30 May 2007 18:59:48 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2007/05/30/tips-on-hanging-wallpaper/#comment-70109 Coming from someone who has stripped a lot of wallpaper because the previous owner thought she was an interior decorator: DON"T DO IT. Sure maybe if you hang wall paper right, you might be able to take it off in twice as much time as it would take to paint the room; if it is done wrong or with crappy wallpaper, you might be stuck peeling confetti size strips for two weeks. The textured paintable wallpaper is the worst. It took my wife and I 8 hours to get all the paper and the glue off a 8x10 hall wall. And yes, we know how to strip wallpaper properly! I have another wall accented with the same wallpaper; I told my wife that I would sooner rip out the drywall and replace it, than tackle removing the wallpaper. The line from True Lies kept running through my head as I was stripping the nightmare paper from the hallway... What kind of a sick b*&^% takes the ice cube trays out of the freezer? Although instead I substituted... What kind of sick B*&^% hangs wallpaper in their house. Coming from someone who has stripped a lot of wallpaper because the previous owner thought she was an interior decorator:

DON”T DO IT.

Sure maybe if you hang wall paper right, you might be able to take it off in twice as much time as it would take to paint the room; if it is done wrong or with crappy wallpaper, you might be stuck peeling confetti size strips for two weeks.

The textured paintable wallpaper is the worst. It took my wife and I 8 hours to get all the paper and the glue off a 8×10 hall wall. And yes, we know how to strip wallpaper properly! I have another wall accented with the same wallpaper; I told my wife that I would sooner rip out the drywall and replace it, than tackle removing the wallpaper.

The line from True Lies kept running through my head as I was stripping the nightmare paper from the hallway… What kind of a sick b*&^% takes the ice cube trays out of the freezer? Although instead I substituted… What kind of sick B*&^% hangs wallpaper in their house.

]]> by: RTF http://toolmonger.com/2007/05/30/tips-on-hanging-wallpaper/#comment-70069 Wed, 30 May 2007 17:35:06 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2007/05/30/tips-on-hanging-wallpaper/#comment-70069 Why not skip the wallpaper all together? Try this instead: http://www.bellaandbirch.com/what_is_bella_and_birch.asp Why not skip the wallpaper all together?

Try this instead:
http://www.bellaandbirch.com/what_is_bella_and_birch.asp

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