How to Repair Kitchen Nook Wall - Part 1 of 5 - Wallpaper Damages

Razor knife + extra blades

By Gary Boutin
 
Supplies and Tools: 
Razor knife and extra blades
Tarps cotton 9 ft. x 12 ft.

I was called by a client in Santa Clarita, California. They were selling their home and moving to Colorado. After the Realtor checked each room of their beautiful home, she requested a huge laundry list of repairs that needed to be addressed immediately. One job was to repair the kitchen nook dining room wallpaper. Two kitchen windows had bad rubber seals and had completely dried up. Sprinkler water had passed the rubber seal creating the damages on the kitchen walls.

This post shows the four steps showing the damages to this kitchen nook wall.

Step 1: Fig.1 shows that all these walls have damages. Windows were not closed and water seeped inside the wall.

Fig.1 Dining room walls damages
left, middle and right wall repair

Step 2: Fig.2 shows that the right side of the wallpaper had huge bubble were the paper was free from the walls.

Fig.2 Right side bubbling wallpaper

Step 3: Fig.3 shows that most of the wallpaper by the baseboards were also moldy and had a black trace coming to the surface of the wallpaper.

Fig.3 Right side moldy wallpaper

  Step 4: Fig.4 shows how this section was cut and pulled away from the wall.

Fig.4 Right side ripped and cut wallpaper

How To Repair a Kitchen Nook Wall:

• Part 1 of 5 - Damages
• Part 2 of 5 - Removing Wallpaper
• Part 3 of 5 - Remove and Repair Wall
• Part 4 of 5 - Install New Sheetrock
• Part 5 of 5 - Applying Wallpaper

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