Wallpaper stripping advice please!

[maybeyoushoulddrive]

I'm stripping the wallpaper off in the kitchen and have done nearly the whole room with a steam stripper. All that's left to do is above the kitchen cupboards - about 6 inches of sticky mucky wallpaper - and the steam stripper head thing doesn't fit in the gap

I've tried hot soapy water and elbow grease, but that only takes off the first paper layer. There are 2 further stuck-like-glue layers to go which aren't budging.

Anyone have a solution???

Yuk. Horrible job.

You could try scoring the surface of the paper with a knife to allow hot, soapy water to soak in better before scraping again. Sorry, I dont know of any other methods that dont involve elbow grease. You might want to just paint this area this time to avoid having to do it again, but if you do that you will need to sugar soap the walls before painting.

something like this should do

Do you know, I didn't even think of using chemical magic I was so proud of myself steaming away I forgot that people used to buy stuff to penetrate the glue...

I have scored all of the walls - can't understand why the hot soapy water wont get under it. I dread to think what they stuck the wllpaper on with all those years ago!

kitchen walls gather a coating of greasy dirt from the vapours of fat roasting or frying, especially high up and near the cooker. It is probably this grease that is preventing the water getting in.

Start from the top, so that water can start to run down behind the paper. Use WUL to improve wetting.

Yes you're probably right. There's no extractor fan so it's very manky[yuck] What is WUL???

ashing p *iquid

Have used nearly a bottle of Fairy already

It's off! Thank you so much everyone - the stuff from the DIY shop succeeded where plain old fairy just couldn't!