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Warpy

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9. Get the scorer from a hardware store

Reply to japple (Original post)

Wed Jan 14, 2015, 04:33 PM

Jan 2015

and soak the paper down with water and fabric softener. That combination does the best of anything I've ever tried. Depending on whether it's paper or vinyl, it should come off quite easily once the water has soaked through.

Vinegar and ammonia don't work.

ETA: My experience was with old wallpaper in Boston and with a wallpapered trailer here in NM. I don't know which was worse since trailer wallpaper is heat set.

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