One of the most common materials fordecoration of apartments are wallpapers, sold in a huge assortment. The process of pasting the walls is quite simple, but first you need to do some preliminary work.
Basic requirements for wallpapering. Correctly executed wall decoration will help make the rooms beautiful.
Preparing for pasting walls
Decorating an apartment with wallpaper requiresthe right approach to this process and great patience. When pasting the walls of any room with wallpaper, no special knowledge is required. You only need to choose the right surface, choose the right wallpaper and patiently paste it, so that you can then get satisfaction from the work done. The most important is the preparatory stage, during which it is necessary to ensure that the walls are dry and smooth, without paint, lime, wallpaper. Wooden, painted, whitewashed, with old wallpaper or newly built walls require an individual approach.
Preparing walls for wallpapering. Finishing work should begin with the following important works:
Preparatory work includes 3 stages: removing the old coating, eliminating all defects and priming the walls. Return to contents</a>
Features of preparation for the main works
Apartments purchased for self-finishing require a lot of time to prepare the room for wallpapering. The technology of finishing walls during plastering works is carried out in several stages:
Much attention should be paid to the spaces between tilesseams. They need to be caulked, papered, puttied, and then sanded. If you do not remove the old wallpaper, it may come off later on its own. To begin the preparatory work, you should prepare the following building materials:
Tools for wall finishing.
- spatula (wide and narrow);
- roller, brush, sprayer;
- water;
- additional funds: vinegar, grater, etc.;
- means for removing wallpaper.
The surface of the wallpaper should be wetted with hot water.You can add vinegar to the water, which will act as an adhesive solvent. Those who don't count money can use a special wallpaper remover. If there are oil stains on the walls, they should be painted over with nitro varnish, nitro enamel or sealed with thin aluminum foil. Plastered walls should be tapped over the entire surface of the walls so that this plaster does not come off under the wallpaper later. In case of small damaged areas, everything should be repaired and leveled, and in case of damage to large areas, it is better to remove all the old plaster. Preparation of wooden walls for wallpaper is done using plasterboard or dry plaster sheets. Then the wall is primed. Return to the table of contents</a>
Preparation of painted walls
The technology for preparing painted walls is more complex,than it happens with similar works with wallpaper. It is very difficult to get rid of paint, especially oil paint. The use of special solvents and spatulas does not always help in cleaning the surface from paint. You can get rid of paint using a construction hair dryer and a spatula. The hot air of the hair dryer bubbles the paint layer, and these peeled layers are easily removed with a spatula. Using a grinder or a sanding machine brings inconvenience associated with a huge amount of dust. In this case, protective equipment such as glasses and a respirator do not help.
Sequence of priming walls.In some cases, small hatchets are used to clean the walls, which make notches, and then all unnecessary things are removed with a staple. After this work, the walls are cleaned of dust and dirt with a damp cloth, sponge and dried. An effective way to finish a painted surface is to use a special remover. In this case, you must observe all safety precautions: rubber gloves, safety glasses, a respirator. If all these methods do not help, then you can cover the walls with a special primer or buy glue for vinyl wallpaper. But you can get the best result by removing all the paint. Return to the table of contents</a>
Ground works
Technology of finishing wall surfacesconsists of eliminating irregularities, cracks, defects using a spatula and putty. Before starting this work, it is necessary to pull out all nails, screws, dowels and other fasteners. If there are not many cracks, chips, potholes, then these areas can only be puttied, but experts recommend puttying the walls completely. Wall finishing should be especially careful in places where there is metal reinforcement, so that rust stains do not appear on the wallpaper in the future. Putty should be applied in two thin layers: in vertical and horizontal directions or diagonally. The applied layer of putty should dry, and then it is necessary to sand the walls with sandpaper and remove the dust that has appeared. After this, putty is applied again, smoothing out all the irregularities. Then you need to go over it again with sandpaper. Upon completion of this work, the finishing is completed with a primer, after which the wallpaper is glued. For priming the wall surface, a primer is used, which has its own characteristics and properties. The division occurs according to the following types of primer:
You can also prime with glue, which will be usedglue the walls. The primer can be applied with a brush, roller, sprayer. This material can be purchased diluted or dry. For strong walls, one layer of primer is usually enough. For crumbling walls that do not absorb the solution well, a second layer should be applied only after complete drying. After a set of preparatory works, you can start gluing the wallpaper.
