Lessons proper repair: sticking non-woven wallpaper

Contents:

• Fleece Mural
• Preparing Wallpaper
• Preparing walls
• Wallpapering

Dear reader, how often do you do the repair in my house? Maybe this is your profession? Who agrees that the repair - it is pleasant, but troublesome? Anyway, undertaking cosmetic repairs in the apartment, the first thing we want to enjoy this work and want the result would please us more than one year.

However, not everything turns out perfectly: the ceilings are uneven, the construction flaws appear through the new wallpapers; and the angles suddenly offended at you and cheated their "cheeks." Remember, as before we had to glue the paper wall? Oh, it was necessary "skill, training, training!" The paper quickly get wet, torn in the most unexpected place, it sticks together. And if you happened is that in the morning you find the wallpaper on the floor?

Since then, it took not so many years, and the wallpaper industry is not simply stepped forward and made a huge leap in its development. "Clothes" for the walls is presented in an incredible amount of any color, taste, size, quality. Today offers wallpaper, paper, acrylic, by screen printing, non-woven, mats and washable.

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Fleece Mural

Because of its quality is the most popular non-woven oboi.Chasche purchased just this type of wallpaper is paintable. And they can be water-based paint, latex and acrylic means. In any color. And kept these wallpapers ten paint layers. Using stencils, you can put drawings of any complexity.

Before you learn how to glue non-woven wallpaper, you think it will be interesting to know what are the advantages of this type of wallpaper over similar paper products. On any construction market will tell you that, firstly, the fleece is much stronger than plain paper, although made on the basis of non-woven wallpaper pulp and textiles. In addition, the manufacturing technology makes this kind of wallpaper resistant to deformation, they do not stretch and do not shrink when dry.

Fleece wallpaper can be glued on any surface: on concrete, wood, plasterboard, particleboard. And one of the important advantages of non-woven wallpaper - it's easy sticking accessible to everyone. We only need to know some of the rules, which we describe below.

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Preparing Wallpaper

Buying wallpaper, pay attention to the lot number of each roll. It must be consistent, otherwise there may be some difference in color or shade. A required amount of the material will help you to calculate directly in the store. Professionals are usually advised to always take the wallpaper with a small margin, especially if the selected picture is required to customize the wallpaper. After unpacking, inspect the wallpaper: they must not be scuffs and creases. Next, you should cut the strip height of the walls with a mandatory allowance adjustment for five to ten centimeters on each side. Examine the label - it is usually accompanied by recommendations for docking paintings, according to which you have to cut and preform.

Types of connections

• Reverse coupling means that each subsequent sheet must be turned by 180 ° with respect to the previous one. That is, you must change the top and bottom of the wallpaper in turn.
• For direct docking wallpaper glued in one direction on one of the selected lines.
• Free dock is the most economical type of interface, as it allows glue paintings one by one, without observing the predetermined pattern. Just remember that the non-woven wallpaper glue should butt to hide the seams.
• Joining offset - a laborious kind of docking, which provides for the selection of the picture. Therefore, every picture is necessary to make a stock for at least ten centimeters from the bottom and top.

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Preparing walls

Though non-woven wallpaper is enough thick and are often glued to the untreated surface, suggested yet to prepare a pre-wall. This step will allow you to obtain a stable result, and in some instances the thin wallpaper not tread bumps or spots that are usually located, as luck, the most prominent place.

Thoroughly remove old paint with all the lumps. If you are having difficulty with this, simply by a wet bristly roller stubborn areas of warm water, let it sit for a few minutes to get wet easily and spatula scrape off the remaining pieces of wallpaper. Simultaneously with the removal of wallpaper, remove all the screws for paintings sticking dowels, remove the outlet of the pre-de-energized, remove the curtains and so on - remove anything that might prevent you to stick wallpaper ...

Next, you need to align the surface of the walls: formed to cover large holes and cracks cemented solution to handle minor irregularities putty. Now attach the wallpaper to the wall and see whether the building can be seen through the stain your wallpaper. If the answer you have to treat the entire surface of the filler or diluted with a special paint to make the monotony. And only then you can cover the walls with primer.

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Wallpapering

Answering the question of how to glue non-woven wallpaper, note the main and perhaps the only difference between this process. It consists in that the adhesive is only applied to the walls, wallpaper themselves do not need to be lubricated in any solution. This simplifies the process so that you will immediately become a fan of this kind of wallpaper! And of course, you must use only adhesive designed specifically for non-woven wallpaper. Prepare a solution according to the instructions. A common misconception - to dilute the adhesive in warm water, which provokes the emergence of numerous lumps. Use only cold water, and you get rid of unnecessary problems.

Adhered non-woven wallpaper butt does not matter which side you start the process, but still reasonable to start from the corner of the room. With the help of a plumb or level of construction draw a strictly vertical line and treat the surface of the adhesive slightly wider cut fabric. Glue must be applied carefully, using nap roller, brush for hard to reach places or brush. Be careful, the adhesive should not be too much or very little, in the case of improper connections linen should be easily separated from the wall.

Thus, the first web is glued strictly vertical line. The upper edge slightly catches the ceiling. Then spend a squeegee along the wallpaper in the center, and the "herringbone" roller slide area just cloth to remove air bubbles, and tightly clutching the wallpaper to the wall. Excess fabric on top and bottom cut off office knife, using a metal spatula and the stop line instead.

Particularly dense platen press space docking wallpaper. Exude glue between the seams should immediately remove clean with a damp cloth. If time does not remove the adhesive, with subsequent painting these places will be less intense.

Important! Pasting wallpaper the walls should be done indoors, and in any case can not open the windows or specially warm room to complete drying of the natural walls.

Paperhanging places outlets and switches

• Disconnect sockets and switches.
• Remove the outer parts of the sockets and switches.
• Stick blade wall entirely, covering the orifices intended for outlets.
• After drying, cut the wallpaper on the perimeter of the hole stationery knife.
• Replace the external parts of the circuit.
• Paperhanging inner corners

At first glance, a beautiful corner of the room seems to be wrapping jewelry work. However, following further advice from our story about how to hang wallpaper on non-woven backing, you can easily learn in a professional way pasting corners.

Relying on the fact that most of the width of the nonwoven wallpaper have one hundred and six centimeters make two vertical markings on different sides of the angle width of one meter. First, stick wallpaper on one side along the line marking, following the above-described technology, and firmly press the sheet at the place of the angle. You have formed transition wallpaper another wall. Then, without delay, perform the same operation on the other side of the wall angle. So you formed overlaps the wallpaper in the corner.

Then the office knife swipe along the angle (or slightly shifted to any wall) cut-off line. Be careful, use a metal spatula for convenience. It is necessary to carefully cut away the excess wallpaper, or whenever necessary to handle the angle and firmly press the adhesive wallpaper. So you get a perfect butt in the corner.

So now you know how to glue non-woven wallpaper. Summarizing all the above, we note the main differences between the process pasting wallpaper on non-woven backing: gluing only in the surface of the wall paintings and the label relative to each other only butt. We hope that your repair successfully ended and brought only positive emotions!