Leave It to the Pros: 5 Reasons to Hire a Professional to Remove Wallpaper
Posted on July 29, 2021
Maintaining and updating your home is important as a homeowner. It’s the biggest investment you’ll make. Maintenance and repairs are important as well as moving with the times and styles. So if your outdated wallpaper has passed its prime, consider removing it. This task is harder than it seems. Our pros recommend hiring a professional for wallpaper removal, and here’s why.
1. Get It Right the First Time
Wallpaper was applied different ways at different times so removing it isn’t as easy as it seems. Some of it seems to become more stuck the longer it is up. While it’s tempting to take it down yourself, there are some skills and tools you may not have in your toolbelt. Removing it yourself can mean hours of diligent scraping only to leave a wall of exposed drywall seams, divots and shreds of paper hanging on.
2. A Professional Brings the Right Tools and Equipment
Removing wallpaper seems straightforward, howere there is an immense amount of tools, and patience. In order to get a smooth, paint-able wall at the end, you’ll need at a minimum scoring tools and scrapers. To help the process along, a spray bottle, ladder or even a steamer can assist. For particularly stuck on wallpaper, chemical removers, gloves, eye protection and more are necessary. When you tally up the costs for tools and time involved, hiring a pro might actually be cheaper.
3. Their Advice Can Help You with Your Interior Design
A professional will approach your wallpaper removal with the end goal in mind. Are you putting a texture on the walls, or looking for a pristine painted option? Each outcome requires a particular level of wall preparation. Your professional may be able to save some time in removal or offer other options to save you money or heartache.
4. Don’t Damaging Your Home’s Walls
Even the most diligent homeowner will end up scraping or divoting their walls. This means more money and time to make repairs before you can finish the project with paint. Experts are well versed in how to avoid the damage. However, if they do cause issues, they are also able to repair anything they cause on the spot, leaving you with walls that are ready to be painted.
5. Save Your Own Time and Frustration
Convenience is on of the biggest reasons that homeowners hire pros to help take down wallpaper. It’s a task that is full of wasted time, aggravation and messes. Bringing in a professional, or crew, will allow the process to flow quickly and expertly.
Get Started
The team at CertaPro Painters of Chula Vista is happy to help with your wallpaper removal and painting projects. Learn more about our wallpaper removal service and then schedule a free estimate appointment to discuss your project.
