Easiest way to remove wallpaper? Can I paint over it with no problem?
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You can but I wouldnt. While unpainted you can possibly peel off top layer, score, wet and scrape off. Once painted scoring is difficult to impossible, hard to penetrate paint to wet glue and scraping is more difficult. Likey more damage to wall surface. I would bite the bullet and remove now. Good luck
You can paint over it, but it needs to be in perfect condition, because the paint can make iffy edges lift. Then you’ll want to pull your hair out.
Bite the bullet and strip it. One layer is not bad.
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Painting over it is not a good idea. Even if it looks great at first, the paper can bubble and look terrible. You can get a small, hand held tool called a wallpaper shark, its about $7 at a home store, and run it all over the wall paper. Then mix a solution of 2 parts water 1 part fabric softener and spray it all over the wall paper. Saturate it well without making a soppy mess. Allow it to sit 10 or 15 minutes and the wall paper should peel or scrape right off.
We bought a home with all wallpaper. NEEDED to get rid of it! It was NOT strippable (where the top layer comes off leaving a paper layer that comes off with water), NEITHER was it applied over previously painted/primed drywall. Yep, straight onto the drywall! After totally destroying a 3'x4' area of drywall I called in a professional - no better luck.
What we ended up doing was removing any loose or peeling areas, applied a product bought at sherwin williams - maybe called dura-bond or something similar. It applied milky dried clear and they painted over and it's beautiful!