At first glance, it may seem that how to glue the wallpaper everyone knows and can easily cope with this work. But when it comes to practical actions it turns out that this issue contains many difficulties and nuances that must be taken into account and observed. When starting this work, you need to remember that wallpapering your own hands is not an easy task and requires a person to have strength, patience and some skill.
Contents
- Wall preparation
- Step-by-step instruction for wallpapering
- Video wallpaper wallpapering
Wall preparation
First of all, you should thoroughly clean the walls of old wallpaper or other coating. If we are talking about old wallpaper, then you can simplify your task if you first moisten them with water. Paper wallpaper quickly take off if you moisten them with a soap solution, adding a little wallpaper paste. You can also do with washable wallpaper, and speed up the process of soaking will help scratching the layer with sharp and cutting objects. If the walls were finished with paint or other materials, then special means should be used to remove the coating. To remove the old cloth, a metal spatula is ideal, if the first time you can not remove everything, then you can repeat the procedure described above.
After removal of the old coating, you can proceed to eliminate cracks and other wall defects. To do this, use putty and plaster. After clicking on the link, you can see how the plaster of the walls is done by yourself. After the preparatory work, the walls should be smooth, smooth and dry.
Step-by-step instruction for wallpapering
In this article you can see videos and photos about how to properly glue wallpapers that will allow you to see the whole process with your own eyes, understand the principle of work.
The first thing to do is to cut the canvas, which is done taking into account the picture. It is important to ensure that the strips have the same pattern and correspond to each other. However, there are such wallpapers that do not require the matching of the picture, then in that case you can simply cut the linens of the required length, leaving a small margin of about 1-2 cm.
Begin the wallpapering of the wallpaper by the window, drawing with a plumb line a straight vertical line. Applying glue to the canvas, it is necessary to pay special attention to the corners and edges. After this, it is necessary to fold it with the wrong side inward, at the same time to make sure that there are no creases and kinks. The exposure time depends on the type of wallpaper, usually the manufacturer indicates the roll on which time period to leave the strip. Working with heavy canvases, you can also glue the surface of the wall with glue.
Having pasted the first strip, each next glue is butted from the previous one. Correctly arranged the canvas, it is passed through a clean rag or special roller, which is necessary for tight gluing.
Knowing how to paste wallpaper yourself is not enough, it is important to be able to work properly with difficult places in the room, which include the corners. Since the construction of houses does not allow to make the walls and corners perfectly smooth, this must be taken into account when decorating the walls. So, in a corner it is not necessary to try to paste the whole canvas, as it, most likely, will not lie exactly. It is best to make an allowance of 2-3 cm on the neighboring side, and then on top of this canvas paste the following. Cutting the place of a double joint with a sharp knife and removing the remnants, you can get a perfectly finished corner.
Now you know how to properly glue the wallpaper and if you want you can quickly transform any room. And the proposed photos and videos will help to better understand the features of the process.
Video wallpaper wallpapering
For clarity, we suggest you see below a video of how to properly glue wallpaper.
