How to Remove Wall Stickers Easily

How to Remove Wall Stickers Easily
4 min read
01 December 2022

Easy wall stickers removal is a main selling point that encourages more and more people to brighten their walls and change their interior atmosphere from time to time. Wall decals are affordable and available everywhere, with slight quality and usage differences. Being removable or permanent, for outdoor or indoor usage and less or more thick play an imminent role regarding how easy to remove are they.

How to Remove Wall Stickers Easily

This article gives you different alternatives to easily remove your wall sticker:

Armed only with patience and rigor, hopefully you will successfully remove it

It’s not totally impossible to remove your sticker easily just with your hands. If your vinyl sticker material is thick enough, if the room temperature is warm enough and if your decal has not been there for years, you can go slowly and carefully. In fact, low temperatures in addition to the sticker’s age strengthen stickiness and adhesion which make it totally complicated to remove. 

How to Remove Wall Stickers Easily

Try a hair dryer to heat your sticker and peel it quicker

If the room is too cold, it doesn’t really help to remove your sticker. So you can just heat your sticker using a hair dryer. In fact heating would lower the sticker’s stickiness but you need to carry on this operation wisely to be efficient. The principle is to gradually heat and peel. First you need to heat  the corner that you intend to peel off for about 30 seconds. To avoid damaging the sticker, which will complicate its removal, try to keep about 15 cm between the dryer and your decal. Then you just need to carefully peel the heated surface and if it doesn’t come away easily you can heat it more till it’s ready. 

How to Remove Wall Stickers Easily

Combine the power of heat and water and Wipe with a wet and hot sponge  

One of the most recommended methods to remove your wall sticker is to wet it. As Happywallz tested, heat also helps a lot.  What if we combined the two techniques and used hot water or wiped with a wet sponge then heated with a hair dryer.

Oil would remove it faster but your  wall cleaning time would be longer

Oil is surprisingly an excellent solvent for glue. You can just apply it on the entire surface of your decal and wait for about 10 minutes before peeling it off for better results. Actually,  you just need to operate carefully to limit dirtying your wall. Otherwise, you should take into consideration that you have to thoroughly clean up your wall before any painting or any other application.

Use the right tools to easily remove the sticker and residues

Improvising your wall sticker removal could not be successful all the time. You should know that using the right tools could really make the difference. Getting equipped would significantly ease your mission and you will be always ready and motivated to start the next project. So to easily remove not only the sticker but also the residues you just need:

-A putty or a Glass scraper

-A spray bottle

-Tweezers

Use safe domestic chemical solvents to ease your wall sticker removal

If any of the previously mentioned solutions doesn’t really work to remove your wall decal, you can try safe domestic chemical solvents such as alcohol and acetone. You just need to keep in mind that it would probably damage your wall paint.

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