{"id":2550,"date":"2020-06-06T17:28:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T16:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2550"},"modified":"2020-06-06T17:29:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T16:29:55","slug":"wallpaper-stripping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wallpaper-stripping\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallpaper Stripping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been making a mess stripping wallpaper. \u00a0 The wallpaper had been painted with a gloss or vinyl paint which defeated the steamer.\u00a0 I ended up using a 5 inch bladed scraper to take the top layer of the wallpaper off, then the steamer and a paint scraper to remove the remains.\u00a0\u00a0 The whole room should be stripped in 3 days.<\/p>\n<p>The steamer can also remove the textured paint underneath, but that is slow work and a scabbler and another skim coat will be quicker (there is no asbestos &#8211; it&#8217;s a thin emulsion textured coating).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2552\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/walpaper-stripping-450x338.jpg\" alt=\"walpaper-stripping\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/walpaper-stripping-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/walpaper-stripping-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/walpaper-stripping.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/walpaper-stripping-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Guess what &#8211; I found some damp!\u00a0\u00a0 The impermeable paint had trapped water coming through from underfloor in the adjacent rooms which have a higher ground level.\u00a0\u00a0 It seems to be drying out now the wallpaper has been removed so a nice breathable clay paint should allow the wall to find a new equilibrium and avoid damp without any real effort on my part.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2551\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/rising-damp-450x341.jpg\" alt=\"rising-damp\" width=\"450\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/rising-damp-450x341.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/rising-damp-768x581.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/rising-damp.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/rising-damp-624x472.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been making a mess stripping wallpaper. \u00a0 The wallpaper had been painted with a gloss or vinyl paint which defeated the steamer.\u00a0 I ended up using a 5 inch bladed scraper to take the top layer of the wallpaper off, then the steamer and a paint scraper to remove the remains.\u00a0\u00a0 The whole room [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decorating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2554,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions\/2554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}