How to remove liquid wallpaper

Although the liquid wallpaper and very high-quality, beautiful, modern material, serve endlessly they can not. Therefore, the question arises as to how to remove them. This article will help solve the problem.

Preparation

If you have a liquid wallpaper, the question of how to remove them and not ruin the hopeless floor, sockets, switches, is very important to you. Therefore, we should think about protection:

• with paint tape, we seal the plinth. Subsequently, he will leave, leaving no traces;
• so that water and dust do not get into the sockets, they are also sealed with the same scotch tape;
• in the same way come with switches.

Having completed the preventive protection of the room, we collect the necessary tools and materials. It is important to know:

• if your liquid wallpaper has a piece of viscose, then they are reusable. Soaking them, you can use these wallpapers again;
• more difficult to remove wet wallpaper, reminiscent of decorative plaster, you can not do without a special tool.

Tools, materials

If you need to remove the wallpaper on a large area, you need to work mechanized, and for this you must have:

• industrial hair dryer. With the use of this tool, the work will not progress very quickly, and the power consumption is palpable;
• as an alternative to fenu - grinding machine. The productivity here will be higher, but more dust.

If you need to remove liquid wallpaper in a small area, unless they have been painted, you can do it manually. It is necessary to do this:

• water, with better warm well;Spatula spatula
• ;
• scraper;
• brush.

To quickly remove liquid wallpaper, use:

1. For adding to water a remedy for washing dishes. Enough of two spoons for 1 liter of water. Any, even liquid soap, but having similar experience, prefer Fairy( Fairy).
2. Special tools. They are bought in a construction supermarket. For example, a tool such as Henkel Metylan, manufactured in Hungary, is used for any wallpaper. Its advantages are that:

• there are no solvents in it;
• it does not smell;
• is easy to apply;
• acts quickly;
• for humans is harmless.

In addition to methanol, good recommendations for such a tool as Zinsser, supplied from the US.The cost of it, of course, is the same as for a pack of glue, but if you follow the instructions, then the expense will be economical.

3. The mixture prepared by hand, they say, it is not worse than purchased. Consists of:

• water - 5 l;
• vinegar - approximately 50 ml;
• laundry conditioner or detergent as much as vinegar.

And here's another recipe:

• we take the wallpaper glue;
• add it to a special tool such as Zinsser or Methylan;
• is stirred until a mass resembling a jelly is obtained. The mixture is extremely effective.

How to remove liquid wallpaper.

Technology Let's consider the manual method:

• paint brush lower into hot water or into the prepared solution and wet the part of the wall. In this case, we take into account that if you moisten the wall with a lot of water, then neighbors can come running from below, and if it's small, then the wallpaper just will not get wet. Choose the golden mean;
• wait until the coating well absorbs the applied mixture or water;
• scraping liquid wallpaper with a spatula and scraper;
• if the traces of finishing still remain on the surface, then repeat the process.

Mechanize the

process If very high-quality glue was used on the liquid wallpaper, or they were painted, or applied to the painted wall without preliminary processing, then manually removing them is difficult. In such cases, they are usually removed using:

• industrial hair dryer. Hot air from the dryer comes to the very base of the wallpaper and softens it, and then use a scraper for the final removal of the finish. Of course, if there was paint under the wallpaper, then it will be removed with them, so you do not use the wallpaper again. Get ready to work long;

• grinding machine. Pressing it against the wallpaper needs to be done with effort, so it takes a lot of physical strength. Performance is not higher than in the case of a hair dryer, but the method is effective;

• Bulgarians with a special nozzle and robust body. With this tool, the process of removing liquid wallpaper will go faster, but you should work with caution, becauseThe bulgarian is more dangerous than a straight grinder.

Do not delete, but mask

The process of removing liquid wallpaper, the photo of which you see, is more a disguise.

It happens, it is so difficult to remove them that you simply do not know how to deal with them. And there is a way out: do it so that you can apply a new finish on them. We proceed:

• we grind the entire surface using sandpaper or an electric tool - a grinder with a nozzle, a straight grinder. The protruding elements are smoothed out;
• apply soil, then putty;
• the dried surface is ready for any further finishing;
• if the surface of liquid wallpaper is smooth, and you plan to apply other ones on them, then walk on them with a roller with needles or a knife. The appearance of roughness will improve the grip and the new wallpaper will hold tight.

How to manually remove a liquid wallpaper, the video conveys visually with all the details. And after viewing it can be concluded that the technology, in general, is the same for all types of this finishing material.