super sticky old wallpaper paste

[DIYedboy]

I'm stripping wallpaper in a 30's house, the stuff below where the picture rail was comes off as normal...................but jeez, that above needs an angle grinder to remove it!

What sort of wallpaper paste did they use back then?

 

[Robbie uk]

If its above the picture rail, it could have been Lincrusta and would have been put up with Lincrusta glue. This is a very strong ready mixed adhesive.

 

[Bosswhite]

Going by the year, it could be Flour and Water Paste,

Non of those new fangled cellulose wallpaper adhesives around then.

 

[DIYedboy]

Surely flour n water paste couldn't be that sticky could it?

 

[Robbie uk]

It sure can !! Thats what they used to use in the early part of the 20th century and before .

 

[DIYedboy]

Are we all being mugs? if flour n water paste is that sticky what's the advantage of using solvite?

 

[Bosswhite]

Are we all being mugs? if flour n water paste is that sticky what's the advantage of using solvite?

Because its Potato Starch based, and modern.

 

[Robbie uk]

The old paste wouldn't have anti mould and anti stain additives in either.

 

[DIYedboy]

Mould resistance?..............if the wall isn't damp how does the paste get mouldy?

 

[Robbie uk]

Your putting wet paste onto a wall, that makes it wet !! and trapped behind the paper. That's why they have anti mould ingriedients in it.

 

[DIYedboy]

I see, my thinking then is this.....if you are putting up a PAPER wallpaper you should use flour paste cos the wet will dry out through the paper and it will be ten times more stuck than solvite, what do you think?

 

[Bosswhite]

I see, my thinking then is this.....if you are putting up a PAPER wallpaper you should use flour paste cos the wet will dry out through the paper and it will be ten times more stuck than solvite, what do you think?

Such was life before Solvite got involved !