Vinyl wallpaper glue removal?

Yeah, another house question. On a car site.

The newsed house had vinyl wallpaper in the main hall. This was thick textured stuff, it came off easily in large sheets and left no paper behind. Some seams had been glued, which caused the paper on the wallboard to tear so I have to fix that. No biggie.

The adhesive is another story. When the wallpaper came off, it left flecks of yellowish adhesive which had a tacky feel, it's not the usual flour and water type paste. That stuff is now no longer tacky and seems to need to be scraped off. There's a helluva lot of hallway to scrape.

Anyone have any experience with removing this stuff? Teh Googles return only the usual wallpaper removal techniques, which will be used in the two rooms that have 'regular' wallpaper.

You can use a wallpaper steamer (which can be rented from a rental store or paint store) if you want to do it the manly way.

Or, you can use stuff available from the paint store called, drumroll please...., wallpaper remover. It's cheap, and it dissolves the glue.

I'd try the wallpaper remover first.

I used the glue remover in a spray bottle to remove glue from a huge wall mural. After I got as much of that removed, I hit the wall with some sanding foam blocks to knock down the rest of the glue. Then painted over it all. TMFPITA. People who put up wallpaper in a room, should have to come back and take it down.

I have a certain amount of experience with wallpaper. The wallpaper cleaner works pretty well, but all you need is something that keeps it damp for a fairly long time- any bits you miss, you will be able to wipe up when you paint the wall...

laundry softener with hot water in a spray bottle

Rapid-tac adhesive remover.

http://www.rapidtac.com/products/remover.html

And it smells great! Needs lots of ventilation. Lots.

If removing it fails using all the above methods, I've had good luck skim coating over stuff like this with drywall compound. I actually did our entire dining room ceiling this way since the PO used a textured paint that made it look like it was covered with mini stalactites. Came out really nice if I do say so myself.

My previous condo was the papered palace.
It was there on my originally smooth walls that I learned the simple, inexpensive and effective task of making your own "knockdown" type textured wall. I am not taking crazy huge texture but rather a pleasant, proper looking slight texturing to the walls that does a perfect job of hiding many scraps, gouges, residual paper and other sins.

Start with drywall mud. I bought the pre-mixed stuff and then added water till I had the consistency of a milkshake.
I started with a real heavy roller made for texture and with the ability to hold the mud. This:
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Applying this this will get a lot of the mud on the wall. After about 1 hr of the mud being on the wall, come back over the wall with a dry, clean, cheap, low nap roller. This second roller will knock down the mud to a nice, pleasant texture.
Let dry more and then just paint the wall as typical.

I use laundry softener and water. Works great. I have a steamer and usually I don't even use it. By the time the steamer gets up to temperature I can have 1/2 of the paper off with the laundry softener.

Vinegar and water in a spray bottle combined with a plastic paint scraper worked pretty well for me.

I like the texturing idea. Man, would that save a lot of scraping! I have removed regular wallpaper before but not this stuff, the glue is mucho different. I swear it looks a lot like rubber cement.

Drywall Compound is cheap too. A 5 gallon bucket of the premixed stuff is less than $10. The powdered stuff where you add your own water and bucket is about $5.

Both the commercial enzyme wallpaper remover and vinegar/hot-water have worked well for us.

The key is to keep it wet.

Just for gits and shiggles, I tried some commercial wallpaper glue remover on this stuff today. I stripped all the wallpaper and border in two other rooms with the same stuff and it worked great. This other glue just laughed at it. It's possible to dry scrape the stuff off unless it's in a large patch. If it is, then there's no way to get it loose without doing damage, so texture it is. I swear this stuff looks like rubber cement (it's yellow).