If someone would have asked me what I would have been doing this past Saturday, Peeling down wallpaper probably would not have been what I said. Never-the-less that is what I did. When James bought his house from Ryan and Tammy he was so excited to get in there and paint and make it his own house. We painted the living room and Hallway pretty soon after he bought it and then he let me be in charge of the front Bathroom which I was SO thankful for. He said at Thanksgiving time he wouls like to start on the Kitchen right after the beginning of the year. So Friday night he says I want to paint the kitchen this weekend.
When James bought the house Ryan and Tammy had painted the kitchen Green and put up a border at the top of the wall. I loved the border, but if you are a single guy it just is not very "manly" I guess you could say. So at 10am saturday morning we started spraying on the loosening stuff for wall paper after James had put the holes in it with the SCORER thingy. We let that sit for 20 minutes like the instructions said to and what happened when we tried to peel if off...........NOTHING.........ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
Now I was trying to keep my cool because James was pretty furious that we had spent this money on stuff to take down wall paper and it was a RIP I tell ya!!! So I called my dad who can do ANYTHING house-wise and he said that stuff really does not help all that much. Keep in mind that it is about 12:00pm at this point and I am starving! Dad says all we can really do if we didn't have a steamer is just use warm water and see if that works. Well it worked alright but the pieces of wall paper were only coming off in what James liked to say "COMMUNION SIZE PIECES". Needless to say we were both pretty aggravated!!
At 1:30pm I was STARVING so I ordered Pizza and went to pick it up and left MR. GRUMPY PANTS there to continue. When I got back to his house he was still on the same spot he was on when I left and he was jsut a fussin when I walked in the door. We took a linch break for about 45 minutes and then got back to it. THe good thing for me was I have finger nails and I could get under there and get some pretty big pieces off. Not HUGE pieces, but atleast they were bigger than communion size pieces which is all James could get off because he has ZERO nails.
So we kept at it all day and did not take but about 3 five minute breaks and at 10:00pm we were DONE!!! Yes you read that correctly! We spent 12 hours of our Saturday peeling down a STUPID BORDER!!! That stuff had to have been glued on with CRAZY GLUE! Needless to say both of our arms were tired, our necks were hurting and my fingernails were sooooooo sore! But alas it was one and we were happy!!!
When I got home Saturday night I tool some tylenol and hit the hay! DIDn't take out my contacts (which I never do), didn't set my alarm and passed out! I woke up on Sunday morning at 8:03am and was stressing because church started in 30 minutes. I called James and told him I would not be at early service but would be there for Class and then I would just go to the late service. I was so sore and so tired that I guess I needed the extra sleep!!!
So guess what we are doing this weekend??? PAINTING! Oh that should be fun! The good part about peeling off wall paper all day with James was that we were in the same room all day and there was football on but it was in the background. We just had 12 hours to hang out and talk about who knows what! Can't wait to finally get it painted and be DONE with it!
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Sorry!! I won't be using that stuff ever again... I think! You should have seen us in the bathroom...and that was the entire wall, not just border. We didn't use any special glue, just what come on the back of the border. (We thought we would need that glue for it but ended up not using it b/c it worked fine without it, as you can tell now!) Make sure you put pics up when its finished!! I also want to see the bathroom too! Maybe when we come for the lectureship we can come for a visit! By the way, I still wish Ryan wouldn't have left that love seat..it was my fav...so I hope James is getting good use out of it!
Oh, and we used hot water mixed with fabric softener and it helped loosen things up a bit too...now that you are finished! Hot water with soap also helped and we even used a steamer which helped...a very little.
ummm....James still has the love seat if you want it! We do not use it!
I love that all James got off were the communion size pieces!!! TOO FUNNY!!!
Sorry! Chris really did think you weren't serious when you called, or else we would have been over there! Oh well! Hey as long as the communion sized pieces were accompanied by some ice cold grape juice, you're doing great!
Yeah, if you thought that border was bad, you should have done the master bathroom with us before we moved. All wallpaper and that stuff just wouldn't come off! I spent several weekends on it and finally finished it. Don't know what's up with that border since like Tammy said all we used was water on the back. Please post pics!
hahahaha, communion-sized pieces! that was my favorite part!!!
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