00:00Welcome back again and here is an item that maybe is not used as much around the houses of the newer
00:18homes but that certainly is in the from the old homes and this is a commercial wallpaper steamer
00:24this is the forgetting that tough wallpaper off where grandmother put it on the doors on the
00:29ceiling on the walls maybe put two or three layers on because they didn't want to take it off started
00:36wallpapering different wooden benches everything wallpaper has been around for years vinyl of
00:44course came in and then it became even harder to get off and if it's pre-pasted not quite as bad
00:50but once the wallpaper has with the mixed up paste and that's put on the wall and then your wallpaper
00:56put on certainly commercially in these larger three foot wide sheets it becomes a bit of a
01:01challenge to get it off without taking and destroying some of the wallpaper or the paper
01:06that's on there from the drywall as opposed to plaster plaster days it wasn't so bad you could
01:12scrape away pretty good but once the drywall is there and you start gouging it you're starting
01:16to do some patching so the way to use these is fill them up with water maybe about three quarters of the
01:24way up some people fill them up too far too high and the reason for that is you need some area for
01:30the steam on top that's going to come through the the hose so fill them up of only about three quarter
01:36you push this button in on this weight on top this is where you're going to put your water in
01:41and you've obviously got a vial in the gauge where how far you can fill it put this back in
01:47just like a kettle not much different it's just going to start you plug it in and usually not an
01:56extension cord but I plug it right into the wall socket I'd put a board or source or something
02:01underneath because this does get warm underneath so just in case you're putting on top of your
02:07hardwood floor you don't want to see a little spot on the bottom where maybe it's faded a bit from the
02:12heat of the wallpaper steamer so put something underneath it even a couple of oven nets or a
02:17piece of wood or or aspenite just something to keep it off the floor and then hook up your hoses
02:25this is the normal paddle size that's used for the larger areas sometimes over doors or smaller areas
02:31you've got a narrower paddle as well that you can get so they just go in by quick connects and snap them in
02:36snap the other one in on top of the machine the same way throw this paddle into a bucket when you
02:45plug it in and just wait for the steam to start coming now just like a kettle it's not going to
02:50come out in a matter of seconds or a couple of minutes depending on how cold the water was that
02:55you put into this and how much you put in will determine how long it takes to start steaming so it
03:00could take 20 minutes half an hour for you to start seeing steam come out of the paddle and usually when
03:05you plug this in you'll see the red light comes on so you don't have power these do draw full 15 amps
03:10it's a heating element so if you all of a sudden don't have steam first place you look is the light
03:17could have tripped a breaker or a fuse there could be other things on than that circuit so don't be
03:23surprised if you if it trips out and you don't see the light so in that case you're gonna have to reset
03:28and get it going again but wait for the steam to keep coming out of the bucket not a bad idea to have a
03:34bucket around anyways just to shake off the excess water sometimes you're doing this in the winter
03:38time and the walls are cold so you're going to get a fair bit of condensation and run and water
03:43running down the wall another good idea is if it's vinyl or hard paper to get off there are these
03:50rollers that have little dimples on them that cut through the outer side of the wallpaper or you can
03:55just simply take a an exacto knife or your trim knife and just slit some slits in through the vinyl of the
04:02paper and thereby the when you put the paddle right up against the flush right onto the wall
04:08then it's got a chance to get in behind and soften it up start at the top and the paper and your water
04:14will be running down and just keep moving down the wall once you can use your scraper your putty knife
04:19to start scraping it off it'll start moving along fairly quickly now even even in some real small areas
04:27or areas that you think you could use steam or maybe there's some paint areas hot steam can be
04:33used by taking the the hose off of the paddle and even just put a oven mitt or some rags around this
04:41hot hose but remember it is hot the whole hose is going to be hot because you got steam going through
04:45it and you can direct it into some smaller areas as well and i've seen it i've seen it used for
04:53a number of different purposes only because even though it's a wallpaper steamer you are generating
04:59steam and it does shoot out of here and if you need that you can use it for other purposes as well
05:05so it may have may come in handy for something that we're you're not even aware of where you wish you
05:10had some some generation of steam and this could provide that for you so there's something else that
05:17you could consider and maybe that'll make your projects a little easier see you again soon and
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