How to glue wallpaper?

Although the number of types of building materials is increasing, wallpaper will always remain a popular way of interior decoration of rooms. With their help you can easily decorate the surface with an interesting pattern and make it textured. Now it's easy to choose the right canvas for any taste, decorating the room in just a couple of hours, both in classical and in ultramodern style. Therefore, the knowledge of technology, as you can properly glue wallpaper, come in handy to any hostess.

How to glue wallpaper on a wall?

1. To ensure that the wallpaper is held securely on the walls, it is necessary to make a qualitative preparation of the walls. Very often, you have to remove the old, time-worn coating. It is not recommended to glue a new cloth over previous wallpapers. Easy water or a special liquid, for example, Metylan, facilitates this dirty work.
2. Mix the working fluid with water, following the instructions.
3. Spray the resulting composition on the wall, and then wait a little time so that it absorbs.
4. The material softens and can be easily pushed, and then removed from the wall.
5. Now the old wallpaper is quickly removed, freeing the surface for work.
6. In the question of how to qualitatively glue wallpaper, we can not do without a primer. We raise and apply the composition to the walls.
7. Align the surface and fill the plaster with all the sinks and furrows that may be under the layer of old wallpaper.
8. Next, put the putty and carefully level the wall.
9. If after drying you spend with your fingers on the wall, and on them there is lime, then it must be primed with a weak glue solution. The liquid concentration is usually indicated on the box.
10. Roller we apply this original primer to the surface, the preparation for gluing is finished.
11. We choose the adhesive taking into account the material of the wallpaper.
12. You can use a universal concentrate, which is well suited for vinyl wallpaper, paper, non-woven and fiberglass .
13. We prepare the solution, pouring the glue into a container of water, stirring the liquid with a stick. Then the resulting solution is left for a few minutes and mixed again.
14. If the glue is of good quality, then lumps should not be obtained.
15. Determine the height of the walls.
16. We take measurements on a roll of wallpaper, apply labels, add to the resulting size of 5-10 cm, which will help to avoid marriage.
17. Cut off the necessary piece of wallpaper with a sharp knife.
18. Now let's start by describing the process of how to start directly gluing the wallpaper. Using a plumb line, we put a vertical on the wall so that the first strip is glued as smoothly as possible.
19. Pour the glue into a convenient container so that it is convenient to wet the roller in it.
20. If the wallpaper has a brush icon, then the composition is applied to the reverse side of the strip of material.
21. When you find a roller icon on the package, this labeling means that the glue must be applied to the wall.
22. We fold the glued canvas in a special way and let the composition soak in. If the glue dries, it becomes transparent.
23. From above gently leave a few centimeters to fit.
24. Folds and bubbles are smoothed from the center of the strip up and down.
25. Excess material cut off at the junction of walls and ceiling.
26. In a similar way, we glue the adjacent sheet, and immediately wipe the excess glue, without waiting for drying, with a sponge.
27. In some places, the wallpaper is stuck hard, so here at the end we use glue for joints.
28. The work is finished, the wallpaper is pasted, you will agree that now our interior looks much more interesting.

How to glue wallpaper with a picture?

Usually, any pattern is repeated with a certain step indicated on the package. Knowing this parameter is easier to calculate the number of rolls when buying. By the way, the shorter the periodicity of the pattern repeating, the more economical the material diverges during the gluing. Many have difficulty with how to glue wallpaper with a complex butt pattern. You just need to carry out the adjustment before the glue begins to dry, carefully moving the strip until the pattern exactly matches. In case of mismatch, you can easily peel off the material from the walls and try to fit it again.