Wallpaper stripping

[lugeforlife]

I have an horrific textured wallpaper on my bedroom ceiling. It's been there since we moved in as we ran out of money so we just slapped some white paint on it.

It is now starting to droop and god it needs to come off. The house is a bit shite (early 80s bovid home) and so we thing we'll have some kind of plasterboard ceiling.

We were expecting to need it reskimmed but we're talking to a plasterer the other day and he said we may well be lucky and it may be fine if we're careful.

So what is the best way? I assumed that a wallpaper stripper would get any plasterboard too damp? But I know Jack shit.....

As well as too damp a steam wallpaper stripper I would not do because of hot water dripping from above. but I let my Dh do it

If you are going to do it whatever , I would take off any drooping paper which can just come off with scraping & see what the ceiling looks like underneath that. Then you can see whether the ceiling is essentially sound or whether you need more help that just a skim. Not sure that helps - but what I would do

Best of luck.