The wallpaper of the walls with wallpaper is considered the simplest stage of repair, it seems that no special skills are needed: I cut off the canvas, smeared it with glue and put it to the wall. Well, if there is a drawing, you still need to combine, which, however, is also not particularly difficult. And then it turns out that here the corner is moving away, but there were some bubbles there… In general, it is better or to entrust the case to professionals or to carefully study the technology in advance.
In order to glue wallpaper, you will need:
Actually, the wallpaper itself;
wallpaper adhesive suitable for the selected type of wallpaper;
A paper knife and a set of blades to it (it is better if it is with a metal “guide” at the place of the blade – such a knife will last longer and it will be convenient to cut dense wallpaper);
a plumb line (a load on a strong thread, which allows you to accurately determine the vertical;
simple pencil for wall marking;
A primer for walls so that the wallpaper is better glued;
soft brush;
painting brush or painting roller to apply glue to wallpaper;
a clean roller to smooth the wallpaper;
A lot of pure rags: to remove excess glue, you need rags that do not stain the wallpaper)
Macool, preferably not dirty with typographic paint;
one assistant if you are going to glue wallpaper on the walls and two – if on the ceiling.
It is worth starting to choose the right time for repair. Firstly, if you do not know the condition of the walls under the now and not yet removed decorative coating, then by the calculated time, feel free to add another week to level the surface and prepare it for pasting with wallpaper. Secondly, it is best to glue wallpaper in the middle-end of spring or early autumn: the optimum temperature for this lesson is between 10 ° and 23 °, and the humidity should be about 75%. This means that it is necessary to choose the time so that it is not too hot on the one hand, on the other, it is not particularly cold. Do not glue the wallpaper in the heating season – from the batteries the air at that time is overpowered, but also at the time of protracted autumn rains – also not very good. In addition, before the start of the repair, you need to make an estimate and buy all the materials in advance. And then you can start the process itself.
First of all, you need to prepare the walls for gluing: the wall should be smooth and even and there should not be anything superfluous on it. First, remove the old wallpaper. To do this, you need a thin metal spatula, water, preferably in a spray gun or a special liquid for removing wallpaper. If you do not want to look at your hands by the end of the repair, then stock up with rubber gloves in size. Old wallpapers are completely and thoroughly moistened with warm water: this can be done using a sprayer or rag. It is necessary that the wallpaper is carefully saturated and the glue under them is a reason – so give them time or even wet them several times. After that, the edge of the wallpaper is packed with a spatula and the wallpaper usually easily. This method is much faster than just to tear dry wallpaper, and then slop down pieces that they don’t want to leave for a long time, scratching and damaging the smooth surface of the walls with a spatula or even with a knife. Then, from the walls with a damp cloth, gently erase the remnants of the wallpaper glue, at the same time removing dust and a dream. If the walls are glued to the wallpaper for the first time, or if they are terrible and non -casms under removed wallpaper, then it is necessary to prepare them: completely clean, plastered and only then start gluing wallpaper, because even the most beautiful and expensive wallpapers will look depressing on uneven, bugr walls. After this event, you will have to wait until the plaster has completely dried out – the wallpaper can only be glued to a completely dry surface.
The walls prepared and cleaned from all kinds of pollution must be primed – so the wallpaper will be better.
The next stage is marking. Here we will come in handy a plumb line and pencil. Choose the place from which we begin to glue the wallpaper and screw closer to the ceiling of the self -tapping screw, to which the free end of the plumb line ties. By the way, you need to start glue wallpaper from the walls with windows and continue in a circle. Actually, as soon as the plumb line ceases to hesitate, it is necessary to note the point of location of its cargo and draw through two formed points a straight line, along which we will navigate when sticking the wallpaper. In general, it would be nice to draw all the walls in this way, measuring the width of the roll every time, but still checking the strict vertical using a plumb line. This is especially important if the wallpaper is not overlapped, but in the same case – in this case, special accuracy is necessary.
Today, find wallpaper with the edge, which often came across before, is almost impossible, which cannot but rejoice – there will not be necessary to cut anything along the edge. It is not worth it every time before sticking a strip of wallpaper, cut it off from the roll: and you can cut it off at once as you need it, because the number of lanes is easy to calculate, especially when the room is already drawn. Pluses laid on a cleaned floor will lie and straighten – it will be more convenient to glue them, their edges will not be so wrapped in. The stripes are cut off with a clerical knife, carefully drawing the perpendicular or simply tightly pressing the ruler. So the edge will be noticeably more even than when using scissors for these purposes. Even for wallpaper without a cyclic pattern, it is necessary to leave the wage up to 15 centimeters long, and if you need to dock the picture, then the supply should be left a significant for this.
On a large table or on the floor, it is necessary to spread the sheets of waste paper, and on them to put the wallpaper themselves. You should take no more than ten from the chopped panels and lay them on each other, retreating about two centimeters from the upper edge. If the picture of the wallpaper has the top and the bottom, then now you need to ensure that they are laid in accordance with this. Next, the upper sheet is smeared with glue diluted according to the instructions on the package. To do this, it is convenient to use a roller or painting brush. They begin to spread the sheet from the middle, as if dispersing the glue to the edges. It must be remembered that just the edges must be smeared most carefully, although in fact the glue should be distributed evenly. Be careful – if the glue falls on the front side of the wallpaper, then ugly dirty spots will remain on them. Next, the panel must be carefully folded in half in the lubricated surface inside and shifted to some clean place (it is better to prepare it in advance): the wallpaper must be carefully saturated with glue. Impregnation time depends on the type of wallpaper and their thickness. Paper wallpaper, one – and two -layer should lie down for about 6 minutes, wallpaper on a paper basis, but with some other external coating they require a little more time – about eight minutes. But wallpaper from non -woven in impregnation do not need at all, you can smear with glue – and immediately on the wall. Nebumber wallpapers, that is, those that go a non -woven basis and do not smear from fiberglass at all – it is applied to the walls, and then the wallpaper is glued to it. There are several dangers: firstly, paper wallpaper well-soaked glue can simply spread in their hands, like any wet paper; Secondly, wallpaper with silkography and vinyl wallpaper must be impregnated with glue especially carefully – in dry form they are very afraid of creases that are perfectly visible on their texture. When a sheet of wallpaper is finally saturated, you can start glue. At this stage you will need an assistant. One of the employees carefully, so as not to stain, not to hush and break, takes a sheet of wallpaper rolled in half, rises with him on a ladder and unfolds there. While the first puts a sheet of wallpaper to the marked line at the ceiling, the second straightens it from below. This will help to avoid creases, bubbles and wrinkles. Further, the panel should be gently smoothed out of the center to the edges, and glue. If he performs, you need to wipe it instantly with a dry clean rag, otherwise the spots will remain. It is convenient to smooth the wallpaper on the wall with a brush or a clean roller. The remaining sheets are glued according to the same principle.
One of the complex points is the corners. For their proper pasting, the panel is cut into two parts along two parts, and such that one of them reaches the corner, overlaps it and another five centimeters went to the next wall. The remaining part of the panel is simply glued to the water, like other wallpapers. Such a technique will help to avoid wrinkles on the wallpaper. In the corners, the wallpaper has the ability to lag behind, so there they need to be squeezed separately well and additionally pass them with a roller.
The next moment, requiring special attention – sockets and switches. Firstly, before any work related to the power grid, you need to de-energize what you have to encounter so that there is no danger of a current blow. After that, you need to remove the upper (usually plastic) part of the sockets and switches – that is, their lids, and then, right on top of everything that remained in the wall, glue the wallpaper. In glued canvases, round holes are carefully cut out by stationery in the place of sockets and switches, and then the upper covers are returned to the place, so the edges of the wallpaper do not dangle and are reliably hidden under tight -fitting plastic details.
The last places over the door openings and above the windows are overlapped. Do not forget that it is necessary to comply with the combination of the drawing and remember where the top is – let the wallpaper be there and not so very closely, but you should not rely on the fact that it will not be noticeable.
If the wallpaper was pasted inaccurately and went wrinkles, then, unfortunately, this can no longer be fixed in any way. But the formed bubble can be carefully glued, so much so that no one will guess that he was there. To do this, you need a regular medical syringe with a needle: you need to type a little wallpaper glue into it, pierce the bubble, inject the glue there and smooth out with a clean rag. The main thing is not to overdo it with glue, otherwise everything will look ugly.
Playing the wallpaper of the ceiling is a separate undertaking, noticeably more time -consuming than decorating the walls in the same way. For the ceiling, it is customary to choose wallpaper of light tones without a pattern or with an unobtrusive textured pattern, but colored plain wallpapers, for example, blue or green or special wallpaper with luminous phosphorescent stars, will not be no less interesting – this solution is perfect for children, for example, for example.
The wallpaper for the ceiling first of all needs to be chosen by weight – they should not be too dense and heavy so as not to peel off and not collapse at some point under the influence of earthly attraction. An excellent solution, for example, will be non -woven wallpaper. The ceiling for pasting with wallpaper is prepared in the same way as the walls, except that the primer should be chosen more thoroughly, focusing primarily on acrylic – they will hold the wallpaper stronger, which is extremely relevant for the ceiling. The consumption of such a primer is about 10 kg per 100 m² of ceiling, so such a package is definitely enough for the entire apartment, it will also remain. On the ceiling, the wallpaper begins to glue for about two to three hours after the application of the soil. Here, as when working with the walls, glue is chosen depending on the type and quality of the wallpaper themselves.
As in the case of the walls, the wallpaper from the roll is divided into separate panels, and it is better to place them across – along it will turn out too long and therefore, most likely, poor -quality. Moreover, to cut off the ceiling wallpaper also with a margin – in order to take into account far from always straight angles of the room. The ceiling, like the walls, is better to pre -draw.
Threesome wallpaper on the ceiling: two work standing on the goats or a strong table, and the third below smears the panels with glue and, when they are soaked, folds with a neat accordion and serves upstairs. The first employee sticks about a third of the panel, and the second at this time carefully unfolds and glues the rest. The wallpaper on the ceiling should be glued quickly and immediately pressed very tightly so that they do not fall off in the process.
