How to glue vinyl wallpaper?

You can glue vinyl wallpaper only on a dry and flat surface. Therefore, first you need to clean the walls of old coatings (wallpaper, paint, plaster), putty all cracks and carefully level the surface.

Before gluing the wallpaper, the walls are primed with a deep penetration primer or special adhesive for vinyl wallpaper and treated with a fungicidal composition that prevents the appearance of mold under the wallpaper. You can glue vinyl wallpaper only on a completely dried wall!

The wallpaper should be cut into strips, leaving the allowance for a length of 10 cm. If there is a picture on the wallpaper, select the adjacentso that the pattern matched. Before cutting the wallpaper, make sure that all the rolls match the series - the wallpaper from different series may differ slightly in shade.

To glue vinyl wallpaper you need to butt. But this wallpapering has its own nuances: after drying, vinyl wallpaper can "shrink", and between the panels there will be gaps. Therefore, less adhesive is applied to vinyl wallpapers than to paper wallpapers, and In no case do they stretch them across the width when glued. Do not press the wallpaper against the wall with a spatula, but with a special rubber roller or a brush with a short stubble, especially smoothing the seams.

For the same reason, wallpaper must be glued in a room without drafts - when dry they are "whimsical", do not tolerate changes in humidity and temperatures. Therefore, in no case can you open the windows or turn on the air conditioner until the wallpaper dries completely.

Glue for vinyl wallpaper should be diluted according to the instructions, usually it needs to stand for 5-10 minutes for swelling. The glue is applied either only to the wall, or to the wall and wallpaper - this should be indicated in the instructions on the roll with vinyl wallpaper. It depends on the basis: on wallpaper with a paper substrate you need to apply glue, on wallpaper with non-woven - no.

If you apply glue on vinyl paper on a paper base, make sure that the edges are not dry. Paper-based wallpaper does not glue immediately after applying glue. They are folded back to the base to swellglue (swelling time depends on the density of the material and is indicated on the package). For the seams to be clean and the wallpaper look perfect, the adhesive layer should be thick and uniform, and the swelling time is the same for all the panels.

To glue vinyl wallpaper together. One man climbs onto the ladder andApply the upper edge of the wallpaper to the wall. The second stands on the floor and supports the bottom edge of the panel, gently aligning the wallpaper strip along the vertical (for this you can pre-hold a vertical line on the wall to navigate it).

Then you need to lightly press the wallpaper to the base andTo displace air bubbles with a brush: from top to bottom and from the center to the edges. If there is glue at the edge of the wallpaper, it should be wiped off immediately with a clean rag. It is important to ensure that the glue does not get on the front side of the wallpaper.

Surplus of vinyl wallpaper under the ceiling and near the skirting should be cut off by a ruler with sharp sharpened knife. If the blade is blunt, it will crumple and tear the wallpaper. The bottom edge of the wallpaper bends under the baseboard to 5 mm (it's better if you remove the skirting before sticking, and then put in place).

About outlets and switches - they are de-energized before the work starts, they are removed, the wallpaper is glued directly over the holes, after drying, the necessary parts of the wallpaper are cut out and the sockets and switches are screwed into place.

But gluing vinyl wallpaper yourself is not so easy - it's better to attract professionals to it, who will do everything at the highest level. Did you have to glue vinyl wallpaper? Are you satisfied with the result?