I've said this before, but your videos are beyond any other diy videos, the information and steps you give are easy to follow, and you also give us pictures/ videos of what you've done! I'm going to watch your video on cladding a bathroom ceiling as I'm going to be doing my bathroom next week! Thank you for another fantastic video.

Just stripped 16 walls of woodchilp, every wall plasterboard, the best process is this, cut sections top to bottom with Stanley blade in strips that are just narrower than the steamer, place steamer on the paper and heat for few seconds, move steamer away to pick the corner of section and slowly bring down steamer and pull strip off, this will remove the painted paper and leave pasted woodchilp, continue this until all painted stuff is off, soak remaining paper, leave for 15 mins then go around again taking off remaining woodchip with steamer, although it's been soaked previously soak small sections as you go as this boils the water on the paper within 10 seconds and the paper will scrape off much easier with a good, large scraper. I tried many methods and this is the best way

Just wanted to add that your videos are also invaluable to people like me that hire in tradesmen to do jobs we can't - so that we can speak the right lingo, ask the right questions, and appear to know what we are talking about to wheedle out fly-by-nights and spot the real professional tradesmen. :) Thank you!

Since the day I asked for help with a leaking old tap, Almost every video you've made since - is a job I'm just about to do. This has made my jobs allot easier.. Just like to thank you so much for all your great videos and help/tips.. Please keep up the great work

Moved into a 3 storey, 4 bed through terrace and every wall has woodchip! Been using a sponge and scraper so far but off to screwfix tomorrow morning to buy this stuff and hopefully will make my life a little easier. Woodchip really is the paper of the devil but hoping this makes it easier for myself and i can finally get to paper and paint to our design. Find your videos so helpful and easy to follow, so thank you for taking the time :)

This is knotweed for interior

Nice video. I know very well that wallpaper. My entire flat was covered with that wallpaper. When I refurbished my flat I used a paint roller with hot water to wet down the walls and that made it easier to get rid of the wallpaper. It can be a pain if you have several coats of paint like I had in my walls. And a big bucket also helps to get the room tidy while stripping the wallpaper off, stripping wallpaper makes a heck of a mess.

What a great video - thanks for sharing all that information! I stripped our entire shared hall from wood chip paper today (wall from 1880, paper from the 1960s) and this tutorial really worked perfectly! The paper came off after the second spray with the enzyme solution except for the edges and a couple of tough spots which we soaked longer with a sponge, but all in 1 day. A 5£ 2l sprayer from Lidl was plenty btw. with a few refills. The paper tiger is a crap piece of equipment btw, bad quality, the spike wheels fell out almost immediately and I had to go and get another, the same happened again. Use very little pressure and circle the thing, don't move back and forth. The idea of perforating the wallpaper is good, the device is flimsy but there's no real alternative. Going to skim walls new and paint, hopefully good for a few decades :)

Great video with great tips. Thankyou.

For those having trouble with this method on woodchip paper, try using a heavy duty scraper or sander on the paper first to get the raised parts of the wallpaper relatively flat. Then the perforator can penetrate the paper more meaning the solution soaks through easier. Keep the wall wet and ideally scrape from top to bottom, this allows you to be able to spray the edges as you go down ensuring the solution gets behind the paper. Tough paper won't quite come down as nice as some manage, but it does reduce the scraping effort significantly.

Love all your videos and the level of work you deliver in them , now if i could just stop watching them i may get some decorating of my own done haha. keep up the good work. would it be possible to make a video on motivation to start a job ? I can't find any anywhere i have tried playing the rocky theme tune and everything :)

Painter with 37yrs exp, most papers are easy peel today, but woodchip is a nightmare as it just breaks down & crumbles like wet tissue paper in small bits, i have always followed the 1,2,3 ,step in stripping which is first try to tear off a piece without soaking, most do today, but some older ones will need step 2 which i use mostly, a large scuttle that i use for emulsions i fill with hot bubbly water, fairy liquid or shower gel anything that bubbles up dont need much, & with a good roller that holds lots of paint, mines a purdy, 12 inch completely soak one section of wall if it's around 2 to 3 metres or more & repeat, once is sometimes enough but let it soak through before applying a second, or 3rd,another tip, only roll up, not down as otherwise most of the water will be on the floor, by rolling upwards the water being pushed out from the roller will sit above as you roll, the bubbles will stay on the wall to keep it soaked,waterproof dust sheet down for any drips & leave paper stripped to soak up any excess water that does drop on sheet, once you get the backing wet it just falls off, beware of steamers on plaster as im not a fan , they blow the plaster being too aggresive for my liking, never had to use anyway as soaking does the job but that is the 3rd option, if all else fails

excellent and informative as usual!

looking to buy a house with this and helped me alot! the whole bloody house is covered in it including the ceiling lol!

I have this paper in my living room and my bed room and I’m still in the process of removing my bedroom one. I haven’t got a steamer yet so I’m only working with hot water and scrapers but I’ve got half of the room done in one day so I’m proud of myself 😂

So after you've put the 3 coats on the day before, when it comes to the day of scraping it off do you apply more solution then as well? As he says to only attempt to scrape off the wet parts

Council wallpaper! Hate the stuff. Never tried this stuff but have used some zinnser products before and it is very good. Thanks for the review.

I have this stuff in an unused room, but it also has blown vinyl over it that's been painted a couple of times. Appears to be a pain to remove that I've not yet attempted.

I wish I'd found this before removing paper in two rooms and a hall. You're dead right about a steamer not being the best tool for the job. I can confirm large chunks of old plaster fell off the wall and needed patching - then priming with watered down paint. This also restricts the kind of paint you can use to cover it.

Did you try the scraping attachment for the multi cutter? I wonder if it would work on something like this?

How much wood can a wood chip chip if a wood chip could chip wood?

Hello would this work on woodchip celing tough wallpaper? And did you say you used a garden spray thing ? I am all new to this haha Thank you :)

Hi. I’ve recently bought a house in which nearly all the ceilings are papered with wood chip wallpaper. It’s going to have to come off ASAP !! Do you suggest any additional technique other than shown in this video to successfully remove it without too much grief or damage. Of course wetting the ceiling paper will require decent eye protection !

I’m using Zinsser paper tiger and some Zinsser DIF liquid after watching this video! Our flat is covered with several layers of paint on top of woodchip wall paper 😱 it is hell... What would you recommend to do with the ceilings? Shall I replace the ceilings? I’m afraid it’ll costs almost the same as replacing them if the wall papers are removed by professionals and then re-plastered. I need an advice 🙏🏼

Thankyou…. I appreciated your concluding comment…. Whichever way you tackle it… it’s challenging. Thankyou

Woodchip is the pebble dash of interiors. Just plain ugly! Just got my first flat and am having the hallway and front room redone as they are covered in badly applied woodchip. Hopefully underneath is fine and I don't have to go through the fuss of having it repannelled. This video was a lot of help.

Doing this for the first time today and jaysis, what a faff. No magic Zinsser solution I'm afraid, wish I had seen this before. Back to it tomorrow, might make a trip to the shops early to see if I can find this stuff. Having some success with a sharp scraper, super stripper brand thing and a steamer but it's tough going and it's a large room. I've spent most of the day cursing the people who put this stuff up in the first place.

I have a whole corridor to scrap off wood chip wall paper. Is the scraper sharp like a blade???

Who came up with woodchip paper??! I'd like to find that ol'fart, who's probably in a care home now, and take him for a day out to Beachy Head.Next target would be Mr Magnolia, for all those that suffered depressions in bedsits, you sir...get special treatment!

hi i have been useing an old hand planner bland without water its going good but thanks for the tip with the water ill give it try

Once paper has been removed, on old plaster, would your recommend using lining paper before painting or filing the old plaster, sand it to a smooth finish and then paint. The walls I have seem overall in good condition but I'm concerned they will take a lot of coats to paint - will they absorb a lot of paint?

hey I'm new to this and just got my new flat and got alot of wallpaper stripping to do can I use these methods on a plasterboard wall I used a steamer on one wall and it's chipped at the wood let me know thanks In advance

i used to work with a guy whose job was strippin woodchip off walls an ceilings in council properties refurbs .what a nightmare.could you skim over wood chip if you ruffed it up a bit first ?

will this technique work well on normal wall paper?

EUREKA. Hot air gun! Score top to bottom 6” strips. Heat at the top and get the edge. Peel down and judge the heat need. After 2 days messing with a steamer finallly found a clean efficient and dry method. Works for me!

What kind of stripper would your recommend for this kind of job

Awful stuff! Thanks for the video, good to know should I need to tackle this in the future, I have known people though who found it easier to just rip down the wall and start again! haha.

Thanks for the tips. Dreading doing this job. Is that an Accrington accent?

I prefer to use a sponge - we just did a job and it was quicker using sponge than the steam wallpaper stripper - totally agree they are a waste of time. Always learn something new from your Vids UH - Never thought of using a garden pressure sprayer and the Zinsser hole ragger is a great device.

Woodchip is the Devil's wallpaper. It looks hideous and doesn't want to be removed without a fight.

Am ready to tackle the evil woodchip wallpaper which looks like its been there since the 70s 😢

my favourite job.... where you lose the will to live. plus you end up with sore arms...scraping..I find some music and headphones does help...Elgar...not motorhead

Hi there. certainly one way of stripping wood chip butI really can' t see the point in adopting this system at all. The fact that the paper ideally needs prepping the previous day (3 coats at intervals) is certainly not efficient or practical. I've also read the hyperbole about the stripper and the literature actually tells you to not bother spraying it on. The paper tiger has its uses but is completely unnecessary. All you need is a decent steamer and to be careful and do the job straight away. Wood chip is not problematic for a decent steamer. As you say, there will inevitably be some damage whatever method is employed. Also, that scraper is less than ideal for this purpose and will cause more damage than necessary. Just my opinion. Yours respectfully 21c

Man that would be hard work, lots of time consuming labour to get it done right

I am a plasterer we have skimed over wood chip wallpaper we have just made the pva stronger than normal I have never seen the plaster blow off it

Oh no, I've just bought my first home. There is woodchip on the ceiling in every room, wish me luck.

Makes me cry, got woodchip in a spare bedroom and bathroom :(

I've got a full hallway to do with woodchip that's been painted over multiple times since the 60s or 70s

this is actually a nightmare, i'm redoing my room and i'd prefer to have flat walls, luckily im in a small room that only has this on two of the walls compared to my mums room which is on every wall 😂👍🏼

Whoever invented woodchip paper was a sadist.

My rabbit is a marvel at stripping wood chip _ she obviously hates it 😂😂😂 she cleared the lower part the wall overnight - getting her a set of steps and a trestle plank tomorrow so she can sort the rest. 💪🏻 Hiring her out at £10 an hour. If you can collect 😂

i cant belive how small this removing tool is... Chemicals are made just to drain money. Best way to remove wood chip wallpaper is water sprayin + sharp 10 cm removal tool, with right angle 45degr paper flys off (Even 3 layers) Regards from Germany

How to remove wood chip wallpaper = petrol and a match and a arguement to the insurance people :)

lol Where did you record the narration? In your wardrobe?! What you need is an sE Electronics Project Studio Reflexion Filter Vocal Booth! Or just a lot of cushions! Ha Ha! I've taken this stuff off many times & I believe that the smaller scrappers are better due to their more pressure per area aspect. Plenty of water.. or even better Lucozade! lol! Great vid tho man! Yeah man!

I use hot water and a airless sprayer , 3000 psi it flys off the wall

In the process of removing wood chip from virtually every wall and ceiling in the house we moved into. Wood chip has two layers. By far the best approach I've found is to remove the first layer dry, then spray twice with hot water and detergent on a square meter. Make sure your scraper is stiff and sharp and away you go. The sharpness is required to take off residue paste which is left behind after removing the second layer of paper. You have to be a little more careful when scraping and spraying plasterboard but the process is working here. About 1m2 per 30-45.

a lot of patience is required...

Oh Debra do you recall? Your house was very small…

stripped down quite a few woodchip walls and from what i've seen no matter what you do it's always gonna be a bastard job ... save yourself some money and time on the expensive solutions and just score it with a blade and steam it down ... using overpriced zinseer stuff won't help at all :D

Arson is quicker. ;)

My wife got loose with a steam stripper and we ended up with a load of "blown" plaster that had to be replaced. They might have their place but not in stripping paper, not in my house anyway.

2.28! You call that easy? I will stick with the steamer, its far quicker and wont damage plaster if contact time is limited to 10 seconds or so and the user keeps moving the steam plate around as they go. Your method is painfully slow!

we just sore it. and wet brush hot water .still did not work .its a shit lol

Anyone in the past who has put wood chip up that I've had to remove. I curse u with 50 water infections, 20 stubbed toes and an endless itch. I hate the stuff 😭

Night mare to get off

I hate wood chip.

woodchip. one of mans worst creations

the worst crap in the world to get off