After all the handyman
drama, it was time for the second coat of primer on the back bedroom. It amazes
me how painting can be so simple, yet so time consuming.
While that was drying,
time to start pulling down the peeling wallpaper from the bathroom. The people who put up the wallpaper on the
first three walls did a great job. They
painted the walls before putting up the paper and they sealed the glue to the
wall and all of the edges really well. All
it took was some time with the steamer on a seam and it started to peal right
off. The wallpaper steamer
was worth
every penny. No scoring or chemicals
needed. Just a little soap in the water,
which is more for me than the wall paper.
Held it down on parts that don’t want to peel off for a few seconds and
off it comes.
The problem area is that
back wall. It’s the part that is pealing
and looking bad. Started by trying to
peal a top corner of the wall paper and the entire side of drywall came
down. No mold or mildew. Just a drywall chalky mess. Apparently who ever put the wallpaper on this
wall did not paint the drywall before putting on the wallpaper. Then the wallpaper absorbed steam from the
shower and soaked it into the drywall itself, destroying the paper and the
drywall.
Lesson learned: Always always always put a good coat of
protective paint on drywall BEFORE putting up wallpaper.
It took a whole lot of time spent on just scraping, pealing, and carefully removing as much nasty paper as possible. Then all of the holes needed patching and
some new drywall put in where it had been disintegrated. After that, the first coat of mud and then
let dry.
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