What's the most efficient way of removing painted wallpaper?

[BL00CowWonders]

I've got a steamer - is that the fastest way? Or do you think it's worth just pulling off the top layer (it seems to be coming off well enough) and then dealing with the bottom layer.

Woodchip recoverers - has anyone found a way of getting it off plasterboard which hasn't been skimmed without gorging the plasterboard paper off as well. Why you'd woodchip onto plasterboard is beyond me....

scrape it, and you will knock some of the scabs chips off, enabling sprayed water to penetrate and soften the paste.

Sadly it will also soften the tough paper on the chipboard, unless the previous owners had the good sense to paint it a few times with vinyl emulsion before they got round to abusing it with woodchip. You will probably have to have it skimmed once stripped.

Woodchip is intended to hide scabby, cracked and damaged paper, so putting it on new plasterboard was lunacy.

It is a vile material.

I agree on the lunacy remark pj. We're going to have to get the plasterer in to repair the three patches where the plaster popped off (should have checked here before using a steamer obviously!), so the de-wood chipped wall will have to be skimmed.

About to start pulling off polystyrene coving now. Six joins in a metre. I think I would have bought a fresh length rather than piecing it together. Any view on coving ? Thankfully no wall paper here (last place it was artexed to hide the fact it had been nailed up using three inch nails...).

plastic coving is OK, though plasterers sneer at it and prefer fibrous plaster. You rub a little filler or caulk into the joints before painting. Once painted you will not notice what it is.

I am used to older houses, so I like coving.

Two days stripping a bathroom (!) of painted woodchip layered on top of painted woodchip in my first flat. What fiend put that up?! The smell of wet woodchip is like wet-dog, grim.