Working with liquid wallpaper: Tips for applying

Contents:

• Liquid wallpaper. What is it?
• The advantages of liquid wallpaper
• Disadvantages of liquid wallpaper
• How to glue the liquid wallpaper?

Liquid wallpaper made just a revolution in the world of construction and gained popularity among many. Those who are already faced with them will be a long list of advantages: both beautiful and environmentally friendly, and take care of them easy, and very practical. But often, if necessary, to change the situation favored the old paper wallpaper, and just because a few people know how to glue liquid wallpaper. However, do not be afraid, everything is much easier than it might seem at first glance.

Liquid wallpaper. What is it?

Before you go to the section where we will explain how to properly glue liquid wallpaper, let's find out what it is, what are the advantages and whether the disadvantages of this type of materials.

Liquid Wallpaper in its structure is more like dust or flakes. They are not sold in rolls, like we used to, and in plastic bags, weighing 1 kg. The composition of wallpapers includes natural cotton or cellulosic fibers, dyes, and the acrylic adhesive composition components. There are plenty of additives, such as silver or gold thread, quartz chips or mica.

After the coating liquid wallpaper wall surface becomes pleasant to touch and provides a seamless coating with a thickness of 10 mm. When the wallpaper dry, they remind in their structure foam: the surface is rough and soft.

There are several types of liquid wallpaper, differing in texture after application: one smooth and subtle, others more like a fabric with a noticeable relief.

The advantages of liquid wallpaper

• Possess antistatic properties and does not attract dust. Helps to create a good indoor climate.
• Universal. Can be used for decoration of the corridor and the bathroom, and a living room or child's room.
• Can be used for finishing the apartments in the new building. Not afraid of shrinkage and are not deformed during the operation.
• Able to hide the slight defect walls. In addition, they do not have any seams and give the surface of a perfectly smooth look.
• The material allows the walls to breathe and thus perfectly absorbs sound.
• Glued on any surface
• Quickly restored when needed. The damaged area is not a reason to conceive new repair. It can be removed by simply soak with a spatula. In place of the old pieces of the new composition is easy to apply, and you again perfect repair.

Disadvantages of liquid wallpaper

Yes, there are still shortcomings. But they are so insignificant that they may find insignificant, it:

• The high cost of the material.
• The lack of moisture resistance. Liquid wallpaper washed with water, so be careful if you use them for decoration of bathroom or decide to wipe them with a view to maintaining the purity of a damp cloth. You can, of course, cover them with a protective varnish on top, but then there will be no "breathing" walls.

How to glue the liquid wallpaper?

For a start it is worth noting that the package weighing 1 kg last about 5 square meters. m. walls. The first stage does not differ from the procedure that we perform before pasting paper wallpaper. It's about preparing the walls.

Remove from the surface of the walls of all the remnants of the previous repair and metal objects, if any. If your wall has its own unique color, it will have to get rid of it by using enamels, primers and other building tricks.

If the wall can not boast of an ideal surface, it is best to soak solution FG or any other impregnation. If your plans do not have the appearance of yellow spots, the constant companion of old apartments, the best pre-wall paint over white latex paint.

Wood surfaces can absorb excess moisture, so before you put on them wallpaper, make sure that they have sufficient thickness and they are not deformed in the process of applying wallpaper.

Prepare for the application of liquid wallpaper on the walls

Take a suitable container and fill it with warm water according to the instructions. The dry mixture was added in small portions and mix thoroughly using a drill-mixer. Ready wallpaper similar in consistency to a thick cream. If there were any bad stir part, it is better to remove them.

After mixing, leave the wallpaper for 20 minutes, then mix them again. Important: the prepared surface must be covered at one time, so prepare immediately an amount of mixture to her enough.

Application of liquid wallpaper on the walls

You can find a lot of videos where you will be like glue, liquid wallpaper, but we have prepared for you a little instruction, which is bound to be useful.

What you need:

• Capacity large dilution of the mixture;
• Roller or trowel for leveling wallpaper;
• Orchard (you can do without it);
• Roller-knurling to give relief (if necessary);
• Finish.

Take a little mixture with a spatula and distribute it on the surface. Wallpaper glued tightly under them should not be voids or bumps. Smooth out the first portion of the wall, apply a second only, check that between them had no noticeable border - each piece must move seamlessly into the next.

If the result does not satisfy you and you formed a bald spots or, conversely, a ball, try to remedy the defect, lightly spray the wallpaper, and then fill with a mixture of land and level it. Adjustments should not get carried away, after the third soaking the wallpaper will be ruined.

The rate of application of wallpaper on the wall is greatly increased if you apply a special gun - hopper. Another important point: the application of liquid wallpaper on the wall should be carried out at a temperature no lower than 10 degrees Celsius.

Thus we are working out the entire mixture and after the wall is completely processed, give a wallpaper dry. This typically takes from 12 to 72 hours, depending on the level of humidity, ambient temperature and the grade of material.