Restoration of damaged wallpapers

Repair is the most common occupation that accompanies a person throughout his life. And even if it was made in full, then in a year something will have to be repaired. Grease, glue and even plaster. After all, it often happens that by carelessness when moving furniture, scratched their expensive so carefully glued wallpaper, but it's nothing. And if they were torn, and even in the most prominent place. What to do? How to repair the wallpaper so that its tracks can not be seen?

Preliminary preparation of walls

When renovating apartments, wallpaper plays a major role, because they are the most contemplated element of any home. Therefore, the basis should be as qualitatively as possible prepared.

The first step before starting the gluing is to inspect the damage site. If it is deep enough, the surface must be ground and sanded with sandpaper. Then a piece of the wall is treated with a primer of deep penetration, so that the wallpaper does not fall off again.

Often among the damages of wallpaper there are tears due to cracks in the wall. This happens mainly in new homes. Moreover, in single-story and multi-apartment multi-storey. This process is inevitable, because any structure shrinks, in which there are cracks in the weakest places of the walls:

• corners;
• plate joints;
• thin partitions.

Before repairing damaged wallpapers, you must do the following:

• Remove wallpaper by stripe at least 20 cm wide along the entire length of the crack.
• Clean from the old putty and make the crack wider so that a plaster mix can be applied.
• Before plastering it must be treated with a high penetration primer. After completely drying, plaster this piece of wall, with the simultaneous laying of the metal mesh. When leveling the surface with filler, it is also recommended to use a fiberglass reinforcement stack.

Kinds of damage on the wallpaper

On the wallpaper there can be a variety of damages, the causes of which can be anything:

• furniture;
• is a human factor;
• poor-quality glue or improper preparation of the substrate in some places;
• old age.

As a rule, in the latter case, the walls are completely re-glued, because each person does not like the rustiness, and on their background the pieces of new wallpaper will be very prominent. Therefore, consider cases with physical factors. But before starting work, the first thing to do is to choose wallpaper for repair, corresponding to the color and texture.

Scratches

Scratches are the most common causes of damage to walls covered with wallpaper. They can be either large or small. Proceeding from this, the front of work is chosen. Here it is necessary to take into account the geometric parameters of the wall, if the scratch is on a small separate section of the wall, then it can be re-glued completely, which will be the best option. If the scratch is in the middle of a large and even wall. Then on the wallpaper mark the correct shape of a rectangle, square or strip and cut it carefully with a mounting knife and a level, rule or ruler. Then cut out of a new piece of wallpaper of the same regular geometric shape piece, but with a margin of 1-2 cm on all four sides. The prepared piece is pasted onto the wall by known methods. Then, using the same mounting or wallpaper knife and ruler, all sides of the piece are cut with an indentation of 0.5-1 cm from the edge. The cut edge is carefully removed and the edges of the newly glued piece are lifted to remove old wallpaper from under it. And everything rolls around for wallpaper. If the wallpaper has a certain pattern, then, consequently, it is necessary to select it.

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If the damage happened exactly in the figure itself, then you can replace it only by cutting it neatly along its contour. With this method of repair defects will not be visible at all.

If the scratch was small, then using a thin brush, the glue is applied to the lagged pieces. Then, with a clean and dry cloth, gently press down to remove excess. Be sure to hold the piece moistened with glue. After that, the place can be rolled with a roller, expelling the air.

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If for some reason the wallpaper was torn, then there are two options for action:

If the piece from them was still hanging, then the wallpaper can be simply glued some liquid and white glue. For these purposes, glue for gluing wallpaper can be all known PVA.

Be sure to let the edges soak to soften the edges and they will be more malleable.

It should be remembered that heavy wallpaper, require the use of a more durable adhesive. And to accelerate the drying process, you can use a conventional hair dryer to set the hair and set the average temperature of the air flow.

If the wallpaper fragment is missing. Then we should act as described in the first case.

Losses

When forming large scale scuffs on the surface of the wallpaper with the appearance of their structure, it is necessary to act here, as it was described earlier. Cut a piece of properly geometric shape on the wall and from the remains, but larger. Then paste with PVA and roll. Next, trim the edge and remove the remnants from under the newly pasted piece.

The wallpaper gluing can also be carried out in a second way to create abrasion. The glued piece can not be cut off on an even line and in the form of a regular geometric figure. It can be torn off while the tear should go in the opposite direction, so that the edges of the wallpaper are not visible on the front side. Thus, these edges turn out to be thin, which will ensure the best gluing and merging with the general background. Here, the main thing is to roll the piece well with a roller and glue it with glue.

Air or blooming of wallpapers

We take an ordinary syringe, we recruit PVA glue and we introduce into the cavity in different places a little. After that, we smooth the surface.

Sealing the seams

The joints of the joints are glued as follows:

1. wallpaper With the help of a fine brush, the bent joints of the wallpaper are carefully greased.
2. Then, using a roller, they re-attach to the wall.
3. Let the linen soak.

Radical method. If after the zealous smoothing of the wallpaper at the joints joints were formed, then they can be successfully disguised. To do this, you need a thin brush and paint under the color of the wallpaper. The edges of the wallpaper should be carefully torn off the wall, if possible. Then, at the joint, paint the wall and allow to dry.

It is also possible to hedge if the preparation of the wall is not good enough, at the junctions, glue the paper tape( suitable for cash registers), this procedure is well done at the time of wallpapering the wallpaper.