this is so hard to remove.
so much stick is left on here it is unbelievable
so i am officially moving in two weeks and that means that all the rental friendly hacks that
i've done all the little upgrades need to be removed and the place needs to be restored
to its original condition now i'm a little bit concerned because will this take me like the
full two weeks to complete or will it take me a couple days or will it take just one day i don't
know because all the things that i've done all the upgrades are in theory removable but i don't know
how easy they're going to be to remove so we have peel and stick flooring peel and stick backsplash
contact paper on counters and on cabinets i have an accent wall that's a color block
and an accent wall that's wainscoting i'm going to be removing all of them and taking you along
for the journey so without further ado let's get started with the bathroom so
in this bathroom i have many things that i changed i have to undo the countertops the
cabinets the cabinet handles and the floor which needs to be removed i'm gonna do that right now
there is a little sticky residue
so much stick is left on here it is unbelievable so just so you know i
love the quality of these tiles i love how they applied how easy they were to maintain
they didn't let water like seep underneath at all they were just really really nice
the design looked good i love these tiles and now having actually tried removing them
i can say they're super easy to remove they do just leave that layer of goo
so i'm going to see if i have something that could work if not i'm going to go to the store
in the meantime before i go get that i'm going to actually take off the cabinets and start removing
the contact paper that's on here and i think i need to like properly take these off so
so removing the wood contact paper was actually pretty easy it's just that it ripped apart in many
many different pieces as i was doing it which made it a little bit annoying some of the pieces came
off quite easy like this piece right here but then some pieces need a little bit of help with
a hair dryer at least that's what i use you could also use a heat gun if you had that kicking around
but i basically just went slowly and peeled it off and all was well i'm really glad that
i got to have that wood look while i lived here and now i can move back to removing
the sticky residue that's on the floor so i'm back and i picked up my goo gone and i'm 90%
sure this is going to work however it is poisonous and i feel like the fumes are
probably not the best since the bathroom is this very enclosed space i wanted to try something
natural first i read online that you could put baking soda down and that would kind of like
stick to the glue and then you could scrape it and i was like kind of skeptical about it but
i had it so i tried it it wasn't really working however then i tried putting rubbing alcohol onto
a like dish washing pad and rubbing it with the baking soda and let me tell you it worked so good
Parth? "Yeah"
you want to come do this?
"ok"
my husband at work
you work stand on the one tile as you as you sponge the baking soda just the one tile it's
like twister oh no oh my gosh all the big oh you think i can sponge it from this position?
ew i can taste this in my mouth with the baking soda okay google what happens if you
accidentally eat some baking soda on the website missouripoisoncenter.org they say
if a large amount of baking soda is ingested expect vomiting and diarrhea
quickly after the ingestion because it raises the sodium levels in the body
i can feel the baking soda in the air you know i can feel baking soda in the air hold on
i'm trying to get the baking soda out of the grout lines as well
because they are like oh my gosh all i taste is salt
good morning so we have the floors all done and cleaned up
we have the cabinets all good to go i just haven't installed them yet but i think the next thing that
i'm going to do is actually remove the contact paper that is on the sink now just to quickly
show you how the contact paper on here held up it did such a good job it lasted beautifully
and it didn't budge at all from the day that i installed it so like find a little edge
the hair dryer definitely is working way better
so this contact paper left a sticky residue as well and i actually decided to try using olive
oil on there first and that actually did remove this type of sticky residue so highly recommend
that and then all you need to do is basically rub that in and then after your whole place
will be like super oily so then you need to go in with some sort of a cleaner i just used lysol
so i'm just going ahead and reinstalling those cabinets and screwing those in and then after
that i am going to be working on the cabinet handles and these are a bit weird because they're
actually handles that i spray painted and i just want to show you how easy it is to reverse with
some nail polish remover so this is weird but i'm actually going to use a swiffer wetjet pad
fully off
so when i initially did this bathroom makeover i didn't actually show that
i spray painted these because i thought i would get some criticism
but i can now tell you that this is a hundred percent renter friendly
good as new
so it is now time to move on to the kitchen where i have done many things in terms of rental
friendly upgrades including the countertops in here as well these pendant lights which i love
and the backsplash and i think i'm gonna start with the backsplash because
i just it's such a big surface area i feel like i need to get that done first now i
will just say that removing this was so easy but i think that's largely because i applied
it over an existing backsplash if you apply this over paint i am 99% sure it will rip off
the paint so i would not recommend that but over an existing backsplash it will remove just fine
so it is now time to remove the kitchen countertops and i have a feeling that this contact
paper should be quite easy to remove in terms of sticky residue i don't think there should be that
what i've noticed so far with contact paper is if you use a hair dryer or a heat gun with it it will
remove easier but then it will in turn leave a bit of a sticky residue at least that's what i found
so i'm going to try and not use a heat gun for this and hopefully it will be easy to remove
it's so hard to remove so my husband just recommended holding onto the edge and like
using my body weight and i'm like still not moving i swear i have to like actually pull it this is
so hard to remove without a heat gun but i just don't want to use one because i don't want the
residue on the top so i'm just gonna keep going or i'm gonna pass this off to my husband real soon
success now just like five more of those to go
so i would say that the quality of this contact paper was literally 10 out of 10. it was so
easy to add on you couldn't see any air bubbles or anything with the design and with the matte finish
it stayed perfectly in place no water damaged it or anything and i loved it so much in my kitchen
i am now going to move right along to uninstalling my beloved hanging pendant lights
shouldn't be too hard i think so basically i am just pulling these off and then
i have some command strips that are left on the ceiling i'm pulling those off and there is no
paint peeling on the ceiling there's no residue nothing i just had my perfect render friendly
pendant lights that i loved so much the whole time and now i can remove them and i'm good to go
hello so it is now the next day day three of undoing all the rental friendly upgrades that
i have in my apartment today i think i'm going to start off with undoing the arch wall so i
applied this using this like cornstarch solution that is supposed to in theory be fully removable
with no residue or anything i don't know though we'll find out right now when i peel this off
and hopefully we're good so wish me luck i'm gonna start by clearing all the decor away first though
so the moment of truth you guys let's see how this is gonna go
it came off so easy
okay let me show you the little bits that have paint so do you see that way up here
that will be the paint i'm referring to now i do just want to say that in hindsight i would
have painted the wallpaper and then applied it to the wall using the render friendly paste method
and that would have avoided these little spots that have paint now
however like i mentioned i'm pretty sure these will come right off
you want to see a close-up of how the paint goes away let me show you
so if you see this little mark right here that's where it bled a little bit
and it came right off up here
and it came right off right here too so all of it is gone so you can't really see
it i don't think from where you are but there is a little bit of a glare
that is from the cornstarch solution however i know that you just need to also just like
wipe that down with a little bit of the soap and water and it does come right off
the wall is now all cleared as you can see here and now
i'm gonna move on to the mdf boards that are on the other wall
but let me give you a peek at what the living room really looks like right now oh stuff everywhere
but this is the stuff that we're gonna remove but first i gotta move stuff out of the way
so basically to remove these all you have to do is just pull them off like kind of rock them away
and they just pop off like that to remove these you just gotta pull down and make sure you're
like holding the top as you do that otherwise this will snap back at your hand and it's all
guys this is literally how easy it is to remove these i swear this is the best rental friendly
hack i've ever done so 10 to 10 recommend it actually like 15 out of 10 recommend
okay now time to remove all of the command strips and i'm going to wear gloves because
they do still snap a little bit it's not a big deal but this is a big wall
this wall is clear now i just have this big mess to clean up
so that is officially it for removing all of my renter friendly upgrades now i will say all of
them were indeed renter friendly they just had varying levels of complexity with restoring it
to the original version so i would say like the contact paper and the peel and stick tiles had
a little bit of residue that does kind of get left a lot of the times depending on the brand
that you use and you do need either a chemical or a natural solution to fix that up not that big of
a deal you just need to plan for the time to do that and then i will say that the color block wall
did require a little bit of a wipe of warm water and soap but after that it was totally good to
go as well and then the wainscoting slash wall paneling that we had was just so easy to remove
i always love that one as well so i hope you enjoyed this video it was really entertaining
for me and hopefully entertaining for you as well if you did like this video would mean a lot to
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either way thank you so much for watching once again and i will see you next time bye