Comment posted to How to strip woodchip wallpaper by Christa Millar

The T-shaped scrapers you mentioned are wonderful! We have just finished taking the woodchip off our large lounge. Took two of us two days, we thought it would take two weeks after the nightmare of removing the stuff from the dining room! Anyway, we had initially bought the Wallwik system which had limited success (soaked sheets adhering to scored woodchip) but found the T-shaped scrapers more efficient.
We did not wet the walls at all. We cut the woodchip and then got the scraper under it and it more or less fell off. We cleared that lot up, put towels on the carpet and sprayed the remaining layer with warm water and Wallwik solution, left it 5 minutes and lifted (scrape would be too strong a word) the remaining paper off.
Thanks again for your tips, hopefully this will help others facing the dreaded woodchip paper!

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