My goal is to paint the walls white and then cover them in stickers. I have an enormous sticker collection i’ve never used, and i’m obviously going to hoard them until i die if i don’t put them on the Handbasket.
The obstacle is the 1990s wallpaper, which is already chipping off around the door. The wallpaper is also a source of lingering cigarette stink, so peeling it off should help with destinkification.
I decided to give scraping it a go, since some of it came off in my fingers. My friend Shrub and i set up shop with Cedar and Watson, who nommed on some gross raw frozen beef bones while the humans did their best at an inefficient and ultimately wrong process for de-wallpapering.
After 2+ hours of putty knife tomfoolery, i got this far, lol:
RV Nerd Neighbor, who is usually right about most things, thought we should steam it off, but i didn’t think that would work because it’s not paper–it’s plastic wallpaper. It turns out, he wasn’t quite right, but he was closer.
What we needed was to Drag Race this bitch and give her a full blow-out.
Thanks to this random dude on YouTube, we gained Secret Wallpaper Assassin Knowledge. So we also armed ourselves with borrowed hair-care implements, and then we went round two with the wallpaper.
It works! And it’s really fun. Were you one of those kids who would smear your fingers in Elmer’s glue, wait for it to dry, and then peel it off? I got the same sense of bizarre satisfaction peeling the wallpaper off. And the sound it makes is deluxe ASMR.
Unfortunately, it’s still not quite as fast as it was in that video, probably because we’re doing this in the dead of winter so the glue is very cold. (My dad even warmed up the RV for us before we got there. Thanks, Dad!)
My friend and co-wallpaper-assassin Shrub had worse luck, and his came off in little scraps:
But he still cleared most of his wall for that session!
I decided to give in and rent an ozone generator because i’m already way behind schedule. I found a place that was literally less than half the cost of renting one from a closer provider, which tipped me from “Hmph, maybe” to “Fine, i’ll do it.” Haha!
Thanks again to my dad and my partner, who actually set it up and ran it while i was busy doing other stuff. (Why is there so much other stuff, AARRRRGGGHHHHHAahahahahaha?! I meant to be doing a lot of this much sooner, but there kept being so many obstacles–so much other stuff. Anyway.)
I still have to make my way down the fix list and, as you may have noticed on the main page, the timer is a tickin’ away.