Paper Tiger (or similar), North London

[Clive]

Hi,

Does anyone know of a place in North London (Barnet etc.) that sells the Paper Tiger (or similar) wallpaper perforater? I have looked around a few of the sheds (there's one of each around here) and a couple of "specialist" decorating shops. None have such a thing.

Thanks,

Clive

[Cicero]

================================== Is there a 'Focus DIY' in your area? That's the last place I saw one of these.

Googling shows a few if you don't mind buying online.

Cic.

[Rob Bashford]

"Does anyone know of a place in North London (Barnet etc.) that sells the Paper Tiger (or similar) wallpaper perforater?"

I have used a "Trimeasy" for sometime. See this link. It's not a professional's tool, but it's very good for DIY'ers. It's the only trimmer that I have found to work on all types of paper , including well soaked anaglypta. Spares are easily obtainable from the manufacturers.

I got mine in Focus DIY, I've seen them in B&Q as well.

[Martin Pentreath]

I got one a couple of years ago from Chris Stevens at the top end of Holloway Rd - telephone [phone].

[Ed Sirett]

I bought mine in Homebase a few (

[Clive]

[jkn]

I saw one in my local B&Q the other day - it's not marketed as a 'Paper Tiger' though, just as a generic-style wallpaper perforator. I can't remember which 'manufacturer' was on the packaging ... Stanley?? It was the yellow triangular one anyway.

If I hadn't read about them here recently I'd not have realised that the perforator I bought some 10+ years ago was indeed one of these Paper tiger things. It has the name moulded on the side somewhere.

J

[Martin Pentreath]

Hi again Clive,

I've never used a steamer. I stripped acres of woodchip slapped on top of psychadelic paper going back to about 1905 using wallwik:

's basically wallpaper-shaped strips of absorbant fabric which you soak with water and which then stick against the wallpaper and saturate it within a few mins. Worked very well for me - do the paper tiger thing, slap a few wallwik sheets on, watch a bit of telly, return, and several sheets of paper pretty much peel away. Repeat (in my case for a few weeks) until house is woodchip-free.

Cheers!

Martin