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Earlex LMB150NA SteamMaster Wallpaper Steamer

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before i get to the bad stuff let me just say that i have experience with labour, but using this machine was this was the first time ive ever peeled wallpaper. the machine was also a rental from my loacl home depot, so there is a chance it was underperforming due to its misuse and abuse by lots of people. however. i still think it shoulfd have been able to get the job done..
The problems i found ith this unit were (the big seaming attachment did not distribute seam very well and one area would be over dampened while the rest would be under dampened. this mean that i would go to scrape some walpaper off and the dry part wouldnt peel, and the damp part would tear a chunk into the drywall. (sure it would help if i was better at moving thesteam pad around more, but when you are scraping with one hand and steaming with the other, some times your timing isnt perfect.

Also the smaller steam attachment has plastic threads, that strip easily meaning the hose that relays the seam though can pop off often, shooting steam all over, and making it impossible to reattach until the whole unit cools down...

other than the obvious flaws in this device, i cant help put wonder if there isnt a better way to remove wallpaper than this? I am a very fit, muscular guy and I used this steamer for 10 hours and could only get about 70 feet of paper off? srely there has got to be something better?

We have another of these in our inventory of rental items and they both work great