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Makes a horrible noise while going over the walls, but other than that, does fairly well to aid in wallpaper removal.
I admit, I kind of panicked. A 5000sq ft office building with paper borders, wallpaper in restrooms and kitchen, paper from chair rail down in customer service areas, had to be painted. If not for the little Paper Tiger I might still be peeling the face off, then spraying the underlying paper backing and rolling that off a precious little at a time. A garden sprayer,wallpaper stripping solution,my Paper Tiger and a 6" drywall taping knife(about 10 garbage bags)took me about 6-7 hours to strip it all off, cleaning up the mess as I go. I bought this tool in '02, I had several paint contracts that year. The salesman at my paint supplier recommended this gadget. Great time saver, never once penetrated the paper covering on the drywall beneath. It worked out great.
If I had anything negative to say it is that in a lot of cases this is unnecessary. My wife and I had some wallpaper and some border to strip so that we could repaint a bedroom and bath. In combination with a spray-on gel stripper, I used this scoring tool to help with the job. By doing side by side tests, I was able to get as good of results by spraying the stripper onto un-scored border as I did when using the "paper tiger." In fact, at times the scored paper was more work to remove because it tore into smaller pieces during removal.I think this tool will be great for removing heavy/commercial wallpaper or wallpaper that has been painted over, but I also think that it is overkill for an awful lot of home use situations. I found that it does a great job of easily scoring the paper and the resulting holes do allow the stripper gel to penetrate better.
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