Removing wallpaper

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Planning on redecorating and have just been quoted £400 for our spare room to be totally redone. So, removing wallpaper from 1 x wall, then painting all walls/woodwork.

AIBU to think this is really expensive?!

And AIBU to consider stripping the wallpaper myself? If not, any tips/hints? How easy is it to do?

Get cracking - wouldn't dream of getting someone to do it even if I could afford it!!

How many days work? The decorator i use charge's £150 a day, your work sounds 2 maybe 3 days due to dry times. I would strip the wallpaper myself, to be honest i will always pay someone to at least do woodwork, its a pain if a job and if oil based cleaning is such a pain

Sounds about average price to me (for my area, anyway).

Its cost me less than £50 to redo my kitchen. And believe me it was a heck of a job as the previous owners put up heavily textured wallpaper and coated it with 70 layers of emulsion.

I just scored the wallpaper, soaked it with wallpaper remover and then used a scraper to take it off. Took about 4 hours to do 4 half walls

My local decorator charges £160 per day and would charge the same whether he was stripping wallpaper that day or painting.
The last job he did for me was 3 days and that was a room 5 meters by 5 meters to mist and then two top coats, undercoat and gloss skirtings and the same for a small en-suite shower room.

When you strip the wallpaper you make take any emulsion off the wall too if it was previously painted, but it'll come off in patchy lumps.

It's a bit of a pain to take it all off completely, so you may need to line the walls. Lining paper that you can paste the wall, not the paper is easiest but not cheap - it's as expensive as some cheap wallpapers and them you have to paint over it too.