Carried on removing the wall paper in the dining room and the bed room...
It was a hard work, managed to remove all wall paper in the living room, finally!
Below the wallpaper, we can see the stain of old picture rail! We need to clean up the wall but pretty much removed all wall paper. Will be ready for the builder to plaster the wall.
Same as the bedroom...After removing the wardrobe, then removed the wallpaper... need to clean up but the room gets bigger!
We'll ask the other works to the builder. Hope to proceed very soon!
Last weekend, we had some progress! Removing more wallpaper (continue from the previous post) and start breaking built-in wardrobe in the bedroom.
At first, when we came for viewing, we did not have any idea removing the built-in wardrobe, actually, we liked the doors and the storage. But after the several visit, we found that the shelves in the wardrobe are a bit broken and not too nice to use it as it is. So we decided to remove them and make the room bigger.
In the picture, still they looks nice... when they are closed
Some of the screws are quite stiff, but we managed to remove all shelves! We could not reach the top shelf/door as we are both short. We'll get a step ladder to remove them completely.
Next, we decided to remove all wallpapers, not only the bottom half... the bottom half has been removed today, including the hallway. Started to remove the top half. The wallpaper has different texture. We were not sure what is under the wallpaper... the wall looks like bare concrete. We will consult with the builder what shall we do after removal...
Well, as the first step of house renovation, I started to remove the wall papers. Luckily, my colleague gave me 'steam' wall paper stripper!
I've managed to strip the part of dining room and the staircase.
There is a wooden bar at the middle of the wall, could not remove the wall paper very well... will need to remove the bar to clean the wall
And the staircase, the wallpaper's texture. And the colour of the wall changed... with the steamer, the wall paper was removed very easily.
Will continue removing all the wall paper and clean the wall to make it ready for painting.
By now, it took approx 4 hours to remove the wallpaper. Isn't it a good progress?
