Woodchip wallpaper stripping

So lots of woodchip wallpaper, covered in 30 years of paint to strip this weekend. Have steam thing, plus scrapper, taking forever. Any suggestions or advice very much appreciated. Sooner it's done, sooner I can go for a ride!

You could try scraping the bladed edge of a saw accross the surface before you steam.
It will allow more steam to get though the paint more quickly....!
Or just score the paper with a stanley knife.

Good luck!

Woodchip is the work of the devil. Easiest way to deal with it is to cover it right over...
http://www.polycell.co.uk/products/polycell_smoothover_your_textured_wallpaper.jsp

• Pay someone to do it
  
• Go for a ride
  
  

Sorted!

Go at it like Joe Pesci in Good fella's and then get a plasterer to repair the damage to the wall afterwards

tbh if I spent less time checking on here, or searching Google for a magic answer I might have got more done! Scoring the walls with a knife so far ftw. Think I need another little break and a beer!

Elbow grease. Only solution.

Trust me I know.

My sympathies - one of the most arduous seemingly never ending tasks I ever undertook, trying to strip about 60 years worth of accumulated wallpaper in a Victorian cottage, took about a week to do a dining room, fucking HATED the room by the end of it!

Stanley Knife,Steamer and loads of Beer Breaks...must stay Hydratred....
Good Luck.

All work stopped as some stray tabby cat/kitten just broken into the flat, pissed up the living room window, and is now hiding under the hob glaring at me frightening close to the sticky mouse paper killer stuff. Have darkened the room, left the back door open, and retired to the living room with another beer!

it's a good omen, get the cat to stay!

Take the steamer and make a light run over the wallpaper. Pass over it with the scrapper to knockthe woodchip bits off and then give it a longer steaming to loosen the paper.

Cat gone, beer gone, paper still hanging around, am too exhausted/bored to continue.

Woodchip wallpaper was invented by the Devil.

Tomorrow I will wage war on the ceiling...... (what moron puts woodchip wallpaper on a ceiling??