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What are you using as a solvent?

Is it actually paper, and not vinyl? If so, my dad once made this concoction that, among other things, I believe, had baking soda in it. You could just about slough it off with a fingertip. You have to soak it in it.

If Vinyl, I believe a heat gun or steamer does the trick. You can probably find great tips online, maybe ask.com

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What are you using as a solvent?

Is it actually paper, and not vinyl? If so, my dad once made this concoction that, among other things, I believe, had baking soda in it. You could just about slough it off with a fingertip. You have to soak it in it.

If Vinyl, I believe a heat gun or steamer does the trick. You can probably find great tips online, maybe ask.com

Soap, hot water, and ZIF. The paper is off fine...its the adhesive that's being a bitch. Its coming off with the scrape of a fingernail, but that takes FOREVER.

For whatever reason the previous owner of my house decided it would be a good idea to wallpaper the cabinets.

So it makes it doubly bitchy, since its adhesive on wood.

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Removing wallpaper is what terrorists should have to do for punishment, but I think it is banned by the Geneva Convention.

I had ugly wallpaper in my bathroom, so I picked at it a little bit. And then a little bit more. And then, I started tearing it off in huge stripes of pink and blue seashells.

In the end, I found it much easier to knock out the walls, and put up drywall. Which were then painted.

Yeah, I hate taking down wallpaper THAT much.

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