How to properly glue wallpaper?

First of all, it is necessary prepare the walls. It should be remembered that the walls under the wallpaper should besmooth, dry and clean. If the wall has previously been pasted wallpaper, then the old wallpaper should be removed. To do this easily with a warm soapy solution with the addition of a small amount of wallpaper paste. It is necessary to apply this solution to the walls and leave it for a while. Old wallpaper softens and can be removed using a metal spatula. If the wall on which the wallpaper is going to be glued is painted, then the surface of such a wall should be scraped to give it more roughness for better adhesion to the glue. All irregularities or cracks on the walls must necessarily be plastered or plastered.

Once the walls are prepared, you canproceed to pasting. Starting to glue the wallpaper is recommended from the window, so the seams will be less noticeable. To paste wallpaper strictly vertically, they usually use a plumb line. A plumb line is drawn on the wall with a vertical line along which the first cloth of the wallpaper will be leveled. The second cloth should be aligned on the first and so on.

Cut the wallpaper follows as follows: To unwind from a roll of wall-paper a piece on length equal to height of a ceiling plus an allowance on 5 sm from above and from below. If compliance with the figure is not required, then you can cut several identical sheets at once. However, if the picture needs to be joined, then to the length of the canvas you need to add the distance to match the pattern.

Unsharpened wallpaper is necessary glue. The glue is applied to the web from the center to the edges. The piece laced with glue is recommended to be folded in half (see the figure), but neatly, without fixing the fold. Next, the wallpaper should be left for a while impregnated with glue (this time is usually indicated on the glue pack).

After the wallpaper is sufficiently impregnated with glue (it is necessary to make sure that the wallpaper is soft, but not drowsy), you can proceed directly to gluing the wallpaper to the wall. Each sheet should be glued so:

• unscrew one half of the canvas, apply the cloth to the wall and straighten the edge of the canvas along the drawn line (for the first piece) or at the edge of the previous cloth, leave 3-5 cm on top;


• press the wallpaper to the wall and squeeze the air out with a dry cloth or brush, leveling the wallpaper from the center to the edges;


• turn the second, bottom half and repeat with it the same operations, holding the upper half so that it does not slip on the wall.

For wallpapering, you usually use twoways - "butt" and "overlap". Thin paper wallpaper can be glued "overlap", but the wallpaper for painting is necessarily glued "butt", so that after painting the seams were invisible. Therefore, after pasting all the stitches smooth with a rubber roller or a clean cloth, trying not to press the relief pattern (if any).

Left over and below allowances need to crop before the glue on the wallpaper dries. Cut better with a sharp knife, keeping it horizontally to avoid tearing the wallpaper. A spatula can be used as a stop.

To prevent bubbles, wrinkles or stains from appearing on the wall, you should glue the wallpaper when closed doors and windows. Wallpapers are afraid of drafts, excessive humidity,sunlight. Until the wallpaper dries completely, at least 24 hours must pass, so during this time, drafts or dampness should be avoided. The optimum temperature for drying wallpaper is 23 ° C.

That's it! Pasting the walls with wallpaper can be considered finished! And how to properly glue with wallpaper external, internal corners and various hard-to-reach places you can find out here.