Patching and Plastering - removing old wallpaper and repairing drywall

We are in the process of removing 20 yr. old wallpaper. What we have left is the fuzzy backing still on the drywall. We are literally picking it off with our fingernails. We have used a spray bottle with warm water and vinegar, tried warm water and fabric softener and now a steamer. Some places even the paper on the drywall is coming off. What do we do to get this stuff off our wall, and if we do get it off how do we prepare it so we can paint. No more paper for us.

First get some DIF (some kind of glue breaker upper) Mix it with HOT water. If you don't have really hot water, boil some. Next, place plastic on the floor you are working on. Then Soak the wall down with your spray bottle, when you think it's soaked Soak it again!!!!!! Then take a firm scraper and start going to town. It takes time and remember Resoak the area your working on. Finally, work in sections! If you remove the wall paper and most of the glue and move on you will reinvent paper mache!! The glue will dry hard as a rock and you will be back to square one!
So with HHHHot water and a sponge wash the walls down to get the remainder of the glue off. Feel free to Resoak with the DIF, the product does work. YOU WILL MAKE A MESS SO PUT PLASTIC DOWN AND DON'T WHERE YOU'RE SUNDAY CLOTHES

Cook
Soup is on the right track, but what we do is take your garden sprayer, fill with hot water add the bottle of DIF then soak, and keep on spraying it down then go have a coffee, come back and soak it again, keep downing this for about a half an hour of just soaking down, then get a wallpaper stripper this tool is a 4" razor, it has a long handle, just take your time and remove the wallpaper backing and glue, then after wash walls down with sponge,
to remove the last of the glue, Good Luck
Frank
Frankawitz Custom Painting &
Plastering Repairs