Wallpaper…
…or lack thereof.
Last night Denny and I began the considerable task of removing wallpaper from our kitchen/dining room. So far, it’s not so bad. Of course, we’ve only done part of one wall, but it’s coming off pretty well. We decided to go with a 3:1 water:vinegar mix as a solvent, and it’s doing the trick quite nicely. The people at Lowes recommend some chemical spray that I’ve heard works well, but we thought we’d try the vinegar thing first, just because I’d rather not coat my kitchen in chemical glue dissolver, know what I mean? Yes, all you snooties, I’m aware that vinegar is a chemical, but I figure if I can put it on a salad, it’s not too big a deal to have floating around my atmosphere.
The only bad news is that I accidentally ate some wallpaper paste. It was gross. I thought it was part of a cookie. I was way off on that one.
We picked out some paint chips, too. We hope to use those colors in the kitchen/dining room when we’re done de-wallpapering, assuming we have the energy. I’ll do my best not to eat the paint.
I think one of your friends, (was it Pam?) ate kindergarten paste. I’m not sure she thought it was a cookie, though. Perhaps she thought it was Pla-Doh.
Any story that contains the line “I thought it was [part of] a cookie” is tragic indeed.
didn’t EVERY kid eat paste in kindergarten? I know I did (in 1st grade). It just smelled so good.
Here is the real story, the commercial paste removers are 90% water .005% bleach 2% soap and 7.995 fabric softener. 99 % of the paste used in wall paper is water soluble but can be reconstituted for life. The paste is more dangerous than the remover as many have a very light formaldehyde binder hence the light brown color. Sometimes fragrance I added. Which is more dangerous then the remover. Kindergarten paste is white paste a natural adhesive made from animal or vegetable bi products and whil it can be eatedn with little health effect it is now not produced withte fragrance to prevent it from being consumed by the little tikes.