Best way to remove wallpaper glue?

[purpleminion]

I am in the process of removing some wallpaper in our kitchen/dining room. It's not a whole lot (two walls and about 30 feet of soffits), but it's a lot of work nonetheless. Anyway, the paper and most of the glue came off of the walls, but there is SO. MUCH. GLUE left over on the soffits. We have some major scrubbing to do in our very near future. What's the best way to get the glue off? Hot water and soap? A water and vinegar solution?

Also, I didn't use gloves when I removed the wallpaper, and I just read something about wallpaper glue containing toxic fungicides. I'm not going to grow a third arm or anything, right?

[zarapipe]

We got a solution at lowes. I'll go dig it out for the name. It works well.

[auntie]

I have de-papered 6 rooms in my house, two of them twice.

You can do a final wash with an enzymatic remover like DIF, but you'll never get it all off.

I usually use steam to remove and then wash down the walls with TSP using a taping knife and then a plastic scrubbie pad and I still don't get it all off. I always prime before painting using an oil based primer to seal whatever paste remains so it isn't activated by the moisture of latex paint.

[purpleminion]

Aug 2, 2015 7:37:48 GMT -5 auntie said:

You can do a final wash with an enzymatic remover like DIF, but you'll never get it all off.

I usually use steam to remove and then wash down the walls with TSP using a taping knife and then a plastic scrubbie pad and I still don't get it all off. I always prime before painting using an oil based primer to seal whatever paste remains so it isn't activated by the moisture of latex paint.

I was told that if we didn't get all the glue off, the texture might not stick. (I know how most people feel about texture on walls, but all the other walls in our kitchen are already textured, so we need to match it.) Should we prime it before the texture gets put on?

[auntie]

I'm not sure.

I have always gotten as much paste off as possible and repaired the walls before priming. I've not had issues with spackle not sticking. There was one wall we nicked up badly. Clearly the paperhanger didn't size the wall. It took as long to get the paper off that one 8 x 10 wall as the rest of the room, the entire MBR and MBath. I had to run a skim coat over it before priming.

[sb]

There's a Zinnser product that's some kind of sealer, it will seal in the glue and allow the texture and paint to stick to it. I want to say it's called Gardz?

[purpleminion]

Okay, so I tried to get the glue off, but the drywall paper wants to come off with it. So I'm just going to get it as smooth as I can and we'll prime it before we put the texture on. This is definitely one of those projects that ends up being WAY more work than I expected.