Horror anaglypta removal

[WattdeEll]

I'm trying to remove some hideous old anaglypta the previous owners had In the kitchen, then painted over. I've used a good quality wall paper streamer, fabric softener in a spray bottle and wallpaper remover (not all at once) yet it won't completely budge.
I've got most of the top painted layer off, but the pasted part is gummed to the wall and is now patchy where it refuses to get off the plasterwork underneath.
I have no budget to get anyone in to remove it as I need to spend £1,000 on getting the room skimmed, but plasterer can't do it unless I have removed all the remaining paper. Any suggestions on how I can do it? My kitchen walls look a sight. I've spent days and days picking away at the tiny bits of paper welded to the wall and not making any real progress. What else can I try?

Have you tried sugar soap, OP?

Ooh, no. Is there a technique with it?

Have you tried warm water with a drop of washing up liquid in it using a spray bottle? Score the paper first with the side of your scraper and wet a small area at a time, leave a short while for the water to penetrate then scrape off the paper.

We had a million layers of bastarding anaglypta, so I feel your pain.

Score it (you can get very therapeutic scoring tools), spray it with wallpaper removing solution, then steam the life out of it. I found that a really fine scraper worked well to get the gummy stuff off.

It's sole destroying 😖

Sorry, didn't see your reply. Sugar soap might get rid of the last layers for you , OP. I think you can buy it ready mixed from DIY shops or in a powder. I've never needed yet to use it myself, but my parents renovated an old house a long time ago and sugar soap was what I recall they resorted to using.

Thanks everyone, will give sugar a soap a go on the gummy bits still welded to the wall and try the other options to remove the rest of the paper. Soul destroying but hopefully worth it!