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We had some wallpaper which was really thin and which had been glossed over at some point.
The gloss stopped water getting in (zinnser paper tiger and scoring with a scraper helped a bit, but not much) and the paper being super thin meant it didn't really absorb any water anyway which meant it did a crap job of transmitting water into the old paste.
had to strip a layer of woodchip, then pretty much had to strip the layer of gloss as a separate step before finally getting to the bottom layer of paper.
Took. Forever.
rhowe
@TooTallTim
A thousand deaths upon whoever invented wallpaper and it's irremovable properties.
In some places, it's been easier to remove the plaster from the wall, than to remove the wallpaper from the plaster.
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