How to Remove Wallpaper Quickly & Easily

Before you can remove wallpaper, get your room ready by taking down switch plate covers, chair rails, towel bars, the toilet paper holder and anything else that's on the wall.

A clothes steamer is the quickest and fastest way to take down wallpaper. Following the manufacturer's guidelines, prepare a clothes steamer.

While the steamer is heating up use a scoring tool to poke lots of tiny holes all over the wallpaper. The holes will allow steam to get under the wall paper and loosen the glue.

Look for a curled corner or torn seam. This is the best place to start peeling down the wallpaper. If you don't have either, start at a seam that's in the middle of the wall, as opposed to a tight corner.

Once you've identified your starting spot, hold the handle of the steamer in one hand and a putty knife in the other. Pressing the wand gently against the wall, slowly release the steam into the wallpaper seam. At the same time use the putty knife to encourage the wallpaper to separate from the wall.

As the panel of wallpaper begins to peel away from the drywall, try not to rip it. Hold the corner or edge in one hand, and at the same time release steam on the small area of wallpaper that's just about to be peeled away from the wall. Use the putty knife to encourage stubborn areas where the wallpaper glue won't separate from the wall.

After you've peeled off one section, move onto the next repeating steps 5 and 6. When you can, always start removing wallpaper panels from a middle seam instead one that's directly next to the wall's corner.