u done it yet

I used a spray full of boiling water, which was as close as my budget (£20 including paint for the whole house) stretched.

In the places where "normal" paste was used, the paper came off easily in great strips and I could wash the residual glue off the wall with soapy water to give a near-perfect finish to paint.

In the bathroom they definitely had used PVA in places, but thinking about it that did peel off relatively easily.

In the problem areas, the glue was definitely not water soluble. It wasn't really rubbery like PVA, but I'm not sure what it was. It was brown, not water soluble and stuck like Bostik.

Maybe it was Bostik

When I redecorated some of the rooms here, I was finding PVA all over the place.
I wonder if there was some popular top-tip banded about 20 years ago that PVA was a good thing to use on wallpaper. Gits.

Oh, and I'm another one who'd sooner eat his own gentleman's veg than wallpaper. I hate it.

computer room renovation update 16/6/09
oh dear what as she done!!!! what was originally going to be a fairly subdued pale green for my comp room as now changed to "blazing sunshine fruity lemon im going blind colour", the wife as chosen.this is supposed to be the man about the houses room with lots of high tech pc hardware and old skool games machines but its of a tropical flavour,its crying out for exotic plants and a sun lounger for christs sake.
fecking women
cheers spunky

i would post a pic of it but it would probably be safer taking a direct photo of the sun
cheers spunky

!

That just made me laugh.

How about a teatowel on your head, tied at the corners and a tropical sunset shirt?

You'll feel so at home!

does anyone know when the next eclipse is due? by my reckoning i will have a bout 5 minutes to throw 7 pc's with monitors back in there before i get burnt to a cinder

Nice, nothing better than migraine yellow for a productive workplace.
May I suggest you cover the walls in either equipment or nekkid girly pictures for your own sanity.

personal preference would probably equipment but hey a few nice racks wouldnt go a miss he he
cheers spunky

Sorry to piss on the parade here, but... isn't w4nking to much going to make him loose a few more braincells than having a migraine. Sunglasses ftmfw.

I think you'll find he'll save his eyes as they'll be closed half the time.

My sugestion?

Accidently trip over those wires your wifes been telling you to put away nice and tidy, while holding a bottle of terps, that you were using to clean the inside of your printer.

You'll have to repaint it

Either that, or just go into a coma, and when you wake up, blame your wife for the neuron killing colour.

w4nking feck it im going over it in cream.............................coloured paint
cheers spunky

*lose

Get the Dulux once stuff, if not you'll need several coats