Angles are, perhaps, the most difficult places for gluing wallpapers , because most often in our apartments there are no equal angles at all. In any room, the corners can be internal and external. If you decide to do repairs on your own, let's find out how to glue the wallpaper in the corners.
How to glue the outer corner with wallpaper?
To glue any wallpaper you will need these materials:
- wallpaper;
- wallpaper paste;
- long ruler;
- roulette;
- pencil;
- plumb bob;
- sharp knife;
- roller or rags.
Consider the option in which the wallpaper on the flat part of the wall is pasted and it's time to stick the outer corner. The width of the wallpaper sheet should at this point be such that the canvas overlaps the angle itself and by five centimeters crosses the adjacent wall. Do not glue a wide angle on the corner, because in this case you will not be able to avoid "wrinkles" on pasted wallpaper.
- Before you start to wallpaper, apply glue to the wall and wallpaper. Start to glue the wallpaper on the corner in the same way as on a flat wall - from above. Lift the sheet to the ceiling, and attach to the corner, letting the wallpaper wrap around the ledge. Lightly press the sheet from above. On the underside of the underside of the sheet, make an incision. Brush or roller smooth the wallpaper in order to remove all the air from under them. The surplus of wallpaper at the bottom behind the "turn" can be cut.
- Take another sheet of wallpaper, or better - the remainder of the previous sheet, if it is wide enough, and paste it in the same sequence, but on the adjacent side of the angle overlapping the first layer. Do not forget to fit the picture if it is on the wallpaper. And be sure to check the plumbness of the vertical strip. We also smooth this strip with a brush.
- To the corner did not get the overlay of two layers of wallpaper, the top of them must be cut. To do this, lean a long metal ruler or profile to the edge of the corner and gently prune both layers of wallpaper with a knife. Carefully remove the top strip of wallpaper and cut off all the allowances below. The wallpaper on the outer corner is pasted.
How to glue interior corners with wallpaper?
To paste wallpaper on the inner corner, you need to know a few secrets. Glue them in the inner corner must only overlap. As you know, there are no perfectly smooth corners in the room. If you paste a wallpaper in the corner, but after drying, they can disperse, and an ugly gap appears between the canvases, which can not be eliminated any more.
Another secret to gluing the wallpaper in the corner is as follows: you can not glue the full sheet in a corner: skews and creases may appear, and the following wallpaper sheets will fall unevenly.
Before you glue the corners with vinyl wallpaper you need to apply glue and wallpaper and wall, as it is in the corner that the wallpaper can be unstuck most often. In case you miss a corner with a roller, you need to use a brush. As a rule, to glue the corners with non-woven wallpaper, it is necessary to apply glue to the wall only.
- Measure the distance from the last pasted strip to the corner, adding to the resulting 2 cm. Cut the sheet, bend over this stock and glue it to the wall so that the surplus passes to the adjacent side. Carefully smooth the pasted canvas with a brush or rag, expelling air from under it.
- Do the same with the sheet on the adjacent side of the corner, remembering verifying the verticality of the gluing with a plumb. Glue the sheet into the corner, overlapping the allowance for the previous sheet of wallpaper. Now you can smooth the sheet with a brush, but do not press tight in the corner.
- In order not to have a two-layered wallpaper cover in the corner, cut both layers with a sharp knife and remove the excess wallpaper.
- Now the wallpaper in the corner itself should be pressed tight against the wall to "squeeze out" all the air from under them. Remove the allowances from the top and bottom of the wallpaper. So we pasted the wallpaper on the inside corner.
