Pasting walls with custom wallpaper
When working with non-standard wallpapers, such as: vinyl, embossed, pile. When pasting with a fabric without a substrate - you can use the classic methods of wallpapering. But there are also features that we will discuss below.
Content
- Preparing walls for wallpapering with heavy wallpaper
- Glue relief wallpaper
- Correct pasting with vinyl wallpaper video
- Pasting with polystyrene foam
- Glue fabric without a backing video
- Papered wallpaper
Preparing walls for wallpapering with heavy wallpaper
Before working with elite or heavy wallpaper, or if the walls have defects that can appear through the wallpaper, it is necessary to glue the walls with paper.
Considering that the paper connection lines may coincide with the joints of the wallpaper, stick the paper horizontally. Before pasting, draw a horizontal line on the wall with a distance equal to the width of the roll, start the mark from the ceiling.
Start work from the upper right corner, and if you are left-handed, start from the upper left corner.
After applying glue to the wallpaper, fold it with an accordion and glue it on the wall, smooth the paper with a wallpaper brush, moving from the middle to the edges of the canvas.
Try not to stretch or tear wet paper, gently glue the corners.
Let the paper dry for 24 hours and start wallpapering.
Glue relief wallpaper
After facing the walls with paper, proceed with gluing embossed or embossed wallpapers.
Having opened the wallpaper canvas, apply glue for heavy wallpapers abundantly and evenly on the segment, while paying attention that too much glue does not accumulate in the recesses, let the wallpaper soak for 10 minutes, and cotton fiber wallpaper for 15 minutes.
The difficulty in decal of such wallpaper is that you can damage the relief of the pattern when rolling with a seam roller, so seal the joints with a wallpaper brush.
Do not paste over corners with embossed wallpaper, try to trim the wallpaper so that they fit in the corner (when you reach the corner, crop the wallpaper around the corner, this trim can be glued on the other side of the corner). Only after the wallpaper has dried well, seal the outside corners with cellulose putty.
Professionals can make the interior in a historical style, but this work requires special equipment, it is not easy to master it, so the amateur does not need to complete such complex projects - invite a specialist.
Correct pasting with vinyl wallpaper
The glue is applied in the usual way to paper-based vinyl wallpapers; when sticking such wallpapers, usually there are no problems.
But vinyl wallpapers on a cotton or non-woven basis are glued in another way.
The glue is applied directly to the wall, it is better to use fungicidal glue (it protects against fungal infections), the glue should dry out a bit, and then apply wallpaper.
When working with vinyl wallpapers, to smooth them, use not a brush, but a sponge, or a special scraper to smooth them. Bend the top and bottom of each piece, then cut the bends with a sharp knife.
Often, vinyl does not stick to vinyl, so when pasting corners, use a sharp knife to cut both pieces in the place where they overlap.
Remove the excess, smooth the glued pieces, the result of your work should be a perfectly accurate butt joint.
There is another option - use a special repair glue for gluing the edges of the wallpaper.
Pasting with polystyrene foam
When facing with expanded polystyrene, glue for heavy wallpaper is applied to the walls.
The coating is glued directly from the roll, smoothed by hand (palm), then easily rolled with a dry roller. With the presence of even edges, adjacent pieces are simply joined.
If the edges are damaged, overlapping joints are made, then both layers are cut with a sharp knife, the trim is separated and the edges are smoothed.
With a sharp knife, the ruler cuts the top and bottom.
After drying for 72 hours, glue the wallpaper on top of the polystyrene, use a thick fungicide adhesive paste when pasting.
Glue fabric without a backing
When creating a project, designers use fabrics (on the same wall or in alcove) to create a special effect.
Light, colored or not very heavy fabric can be glued directly to the wall, but they can be pulled onto panels of lightweight panels 12 mm thick., Thereby providing additional insulation, in addition, light objects can be fixed to this wall using pins or buttons. Then, such panels are attached directly to the wall.
If you are gluing the fabric directly to the wall, check to see if the adhesive will ruin your fabric. If the test yields a positive result, cut the canvas of the required length, grease it with glue, wind the canvas on a cardboard tube and gradually unwind it on the wall, rolling it with a dry paint roller. Make sure that the weaving of the fabric does not warp.
If, according to the design project, it is necessary to glue two strips side by side, overlap, but do not cut it until the glue dries, as the fabric may sit. Then remove excess, re-apply glue and seal joints. In the same way, the fabric is pressed against the corner between the ceiling and the wall (between the wall and the baseboard), after the glue has set, the excess is cut with a sharp knife.
If you decide to make a panel, in this case, pull the fabric on the panel, wrap the edges around the edges of the panel and using latex glue, glue them on the back side.
Temporarily, until the glue has set, fix the fabric with the buttons.
The made panels can be attached to the wall with universal glue or nail them with small nails directly to the wall.
Papered wallpaper
If, after pasting the pile wallpaper (pasting is done in the usual way), air bubbles have formed to remove them, put a piece of paper on the wallpaper and smooth the wallpaper with a brush until the air bubbles are removed.
Paper will protect the pile wallpaper from damage.
When using handmade wallpaper, often with uneven edges, overlap the edges a little, then cut through both layers and remove the excess.
For a neat joint, push both edges against the wall.
