Wagner 715 Power Steamer, Wallpaper Removal With Chemical Free Steam

It's not a commercial steamer so don't expect it to be. It is a very good small steamer for home use. Requires some patience to wait for it to saturate and soften the wallpaper but once it has the paper comes off easily. Removed a whole wall floor to ceiling in about 45 min and this was wall paper that simply refused to come of with any other method. Only one issue the hose is still and until it gets warm a royal pain to work with. Overall good product for the price.

I received this Wagner 715 Power Steamer with the hopes it would make the job easier for removing old wallpaper. It did just that. It took approximately 15 minutes from the time I plugged it in, to the time it was steaming and was ready for use. I held it in one spot about 4 seconds and took a putty knife to the area and it peeled right off. Once I got a rhytm going and enough area steamed you could peel most off by hand. I did an area approximately 4 foot by 7 foot in about 9 minutes. Now this was working with a 1925 era house with 2-3 full layers of wallpaper over plaster type walls. I stripped it down to the bare plaster. I would recommend this product as it worked much better than any other method we had previously tried or attempted. I did score part of the area prior to using this, but when I got that area stripped, I just kept going and it worked fine on the areas without being scored, maybe just needed a bit more steaming than the scored area. Now this does drip water and is a messy job, but that was expected since you are dealing with steam/water, so best to cover stuff in the area with plastic or something if you don't want any water or debris from removing the wallpaper. [This review was collected as part of a promotion.]