laminate glue on drywall

[turfgrass]

I'm remodeling my kitchen and the old back splash is a sheet of glued laminate. The sheet will remove easy enough, however, will I have to replace the drywall? There will be some glue that ran above and below the sheet and some of the drywall paper is being removed with the laminate. Thanks in advance.

[pushkins]

If you can get all the glue off the wall with moderate drywall damage then the fix is pretty easy, paint the damaged drywall with an oil based primer like kilz etc...(the oil base will stop the damaged paper from bubbling or peeling). when it's dry, repair the area with drywall mud, sand and finish as desired.

[turfgrass]

a portion of it maybe tiled. is that still an option?

[pushkins]

It sure is, repair the wall like previously mentioned, when it comes to sanding down the drywall mud, obviously you don't need to be as pretty where the tiles will be.

[Fischer]

Kilz original works great for the repair suggested by Pushkins. This is exactly how I repaired sheetrock walls when removing wallpaper and tile. After the Kilz has dried, take 80 grit drywall paper and sand the fibers that are raised.

[turfgrass]

great info.. I got the laminate off rather easily, but no I have the glue to remove. Not so easy.

[turfgrass]

A lot of the glue didn't come off. Afre there any solvents that will remove the glue?

[Fischer]

I always make a VERY shallow cut just around the adhesive and pull the top layer of white paper off with the adhesive. You'll leave the brown paper on and then go over that with a coat of KILZ original and then put joint cement over that.

If you do not first coat the brown under layer of paper with KILZ the paper will continue to flake off the wall, and it will be a helluva job to straighten it out. You need an impervious layer for the joint cement to lay on top of.