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Have to  remove loads of it doing council refits,

Ox pro heavy duty bladed scraper 5" and a pack of blades

5ltr pump sprayer

3" Hamilton wallpaper scraper

Remove top or as much as possible with heavy duty scraper, wet,wet some more and keep wet then use whichever scraper works 3" scraper for finishing off

Fabric conditioner in with the water is supposed to help. 

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May as well break out the kango hammer, by the time you get it off your going to be re-skimming the wall anyway by the sounds of it.

What about some real heavy grit sandpaper in an electric sander to scuff the life out of the paper then boiling hot water with fairy liquid to soak right into it then a good sharp scraper should get it off.

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38 minutes ago, Rob85 said:

May as well break out the kango hammer, by the time you get it off your going to be re-skimming the wall anyway by the sounds of it.

What about some real heavy grit sandpaper in an electric sander to scuff the life out of the paper then boiling hot water with fairy liquid to soak right into it then a good sharp scraper should get it off.

Be quicker to take walls down then rebuild.  But its load bearing wall haha

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The first house i ever bought had 5 different layers of woodchip on one wall and what i’m sure was at least 142 layers of emulsion.

Most of the other walls had just the one or sometimes 2 layers, but 5 different types on one wall.  It was like the Himalayas.

(It was also a no-fines built/poured house which brought a whole world of other hassles)

An orbital scorer run over the wall first, then steamed, scraped and repeat over and over and over and over...............and over!!!

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11 hours ago, grrclark said:

 

....An orbital scorer run over the wall first, then steamed, scraped and repeat over and over and over and over...............and over!!!

That was what I did in four rooms at this current house we are in. Three rooms were gloss over wood chip, one room VARNISH over wood chip.

Jeez.

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On 03/10/2020 at 16:43, ShootingEgg said:

Is the Devil's work!!! 

 

Anyone got a secret on how to get it off other than steamer and swearing!? 

It was cool in 1965 and it's still cool now , just paint over it with magnolia emulsion and it'll last for another 55 years 😊.

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16 minutes ago, Scully said:

As do I, which is fine if you’re lining and repapering, but a major pain if it’s just to paint. 
 

Normally if it's got woodchip wallpaper on someone has covered up a rubbish wall anyway. Surely no one would put woodchip on a good plastered wall, it doesn't make sense. 👍👍

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