I need to know - what kind of sadistic s.o.b. puts wallpaper directly on wallboard

[Minimus]

without a primer?

I just spent the day taking down wallpaper in my mother's master bathroom (she is remodeling). I finally went and rented a steamer and that did help some. I swear the person that hung the paper 25 years ago used the strongest glue known to man. The walls will have to be plastered and skimmed before being painted.

Whoo doggy, I am one tired gal this evening. I am going to have to take a muscle relaxer and go to bed early. I will probably dream about peeling wallpaper.

[LostinVA]

1. The same bastard who put lino over lino DIRECTLY ON A BEAUTIFUL HARDWOOD FLOOR

In two rooms. I've been working on it since August.

[KitchenWitch]

2. And the very same jackass who put carpet in our master bath.

:puke:

[LostinVA]

4. They are all bastard SOBs!

[ashling]

10. He really got around

:rofl:

[AlCzervik]

11. that was standard when we bought out house in Houston and then here in Ca.

we had the bathroom upgraded to tile in Houston before me moved in and here the water closet was vinyl so we ripped that and the carpet out and installed slate, mostly me BTW!

[KitchenWitch]

15. I put down linoleum

Until we can afford better.

Carpet in bathrooms is YUK.

[AlCzervik]

17. and wrong and unsanitary. Gross.

[Shakespeare]

3. That would be a STUPID sadistic S.O.B.

That's a ninth-circle-of-hell subset, btw.

[Critters2]

5. Oh, uh, that was me. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

But no, huh?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

6. It could be worse

The other day I got bored and decided to try ripping up the carpet in the bedroom. The bedroom closet has gorgeous hardwood floors. The main part room has hideous pastel lineoleum. Underneath that is hideous green lineoleum tiles stuck to the hardwood with tar. WHO THE FUCK LINEOLEUMS THE MASTER FUCKING BEDROOM OVER HARDWOOD FLOORS?

Now we're stuck with the hideous carpet that never looks clean, because it's practically white and we have dogs.

[XemaSab]

13. Can you get the floors refinished?

We had ours refinished and had some damage repaired (BURNED AREAS! :o ) and it was about $1200 for a room.

Which was 100% worth it, 'cause that was some nasty-ass beige carpet with dirt and crayon marks. :banghead:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

18. We're going to refinish the hardwood in the other two bedrooms and living room

I don't know what we're going to do with that bedroom. It's the biggest one, and it literally took about 100 hours worth of work to get that shit off the floor in the bedroom half the size. And, it came up easier in that bedroom because of water/mold damage. Yay!

[XemaSab]

19. The floor guys we called

sanded down the whole floor in about an hour.

Maybe the linoleum/tar mix could be sanded off? :shrug:

Also, if you have the floors done, it's easier to do them all at once 'cause depending on the finish you can't walk on them for a few days, and you may as well leave town 'cause the stench is horrific. x(

[hedgehog]

7. You think that's bad - that S.O.B.'s brother paints wallpaper with

oil based enamel instead of taking the wallpaper down!

[Radical Activist]

8. the same jackass who wallpapered my place.

Cheap contractors trick. It was such a pain in the ass to take off and paint but it looks better now.

[AlCzervik]

9. the same people that paint over lovely hardwood baseboards.

[Inspired]

12. Must be the same asshole who put 3 layers of paint over old wallpaper.

We eventually just tore down the wall, it was that bad.

[XemaSab]

14. The same people who RIPPED OUT the wallboards in our house

:wtf:

[leftyclimber]

16. Dunno, but they did my kitchen, too.

They also spatter-painted my radiators pink, green, and gold.

Frickin' tacky people.