Fabric softener can work too add one cup to a gallon of warm water.
Remove vinyl wallpaper from wood pabel.
Start by peeling off the vinyl from the paper backing.
If you are having trouble removing the vinyl from the top try working from the bottom up.
Depending on the size of the room and the product you purchase you can spray or wipe the commercial remover onto the wallpaper itself.
This should help you to get enough leverage on the wallpaper to pry it up.
Once the paper is soaked you can scrape it away from the wall.
Mix up some wallpaper removal solvent.
Once you have made the x in the vinyl wallpaper start to soften it by spraying some of the water onto the wall from the spray bottle.
It may work better.
Once the tough vinyl layer is gone commercial wallpaper removal products will be effective.
If the wallpaper isn t strippable you ll need to score it so that wallpaper stripper or steam can get behind the paper and soften the adhesive.
Otherwise use any of the following.
Commercial wallpaper remover mix as directed on the bottle.
Sometimes just plain water works fine if you re lucky.
Allow a few minutes for it to soak in and then press your knife around the wet area.
Generally the remover will need to stay on the walls for up to 30 minutes before it is effective.