Finishing is the final,the final stage in construction and repair work. Nowadays, there are many ways to finish walls in a room. The most widely used of them are finishing walls with decorative plaster, plastic and PVC panels, ceramic tiles, various wooden materials, painting with interior water-based paints and pasting with various types of wallpaper.
In addition to its aesthetic qualities, vinyl wallpaperresistant to moisture, mold and mildew, and they are also practical, reliable and easy to clean. One of the most common ways of finishing is wallpapering. From the variety of rolls on the shelves of supermarkets, you need to choose the most suitable option in terms of design and functionality. A good solution would be to choose vinyl wallpaper. Vinyl wallpaper is sufficiently durable, fade-resistant and moisture-resistant. Their base is paper or non-woven material (non-woven fabric). Vinyl wallpaper is made by pressing polyvinyl chloride film and a base. Basically, vinyl wallpaper is divided by the type of vinyl film. Wallpaper made of foamed vinyl can hide some defects, uneven surfaces. Thinner ones are hot stamping vinyl wallpaper or wallpaper on a non-woven base, which are glued to smooth, prepared walls. In order for the walls of a room to have a perfect appearance after wallpapering, it is necessary to qualitatively and correctly prepare the surface of the walls before wallpapering.
Preparing walls for wallpapering
The first step in the process of pasting walls with vinylWallpaper can be considered the choice of the base material and the calculation of its required quantity. Before you start pasting the room with vinyl wallpaper, you need to inspect the surface. The remains of old rolls must be completely removed from the walls. This can be done by generously wetting the remains of previously pasted materials with water or a special liquid for removing wallpaper, and removing them with a spatula. Remove greasy stains with gasoline or a degreaser. All seams and cracks should be expanded, all poorly adhering plaster or other fragments of the wall should be knocked off. Then you need to prime, putty the seams and chips in the walls. After the putty dries, it must be sanded with fine sandpaper or mesh. This will smooth out the resulting irregularities during the puttying process. Then the entire surface of the walls is carefully primed. Priming is necessary to remove dust from the wall and improve the adhesion of the glue to the surface. If the walls of the room have sufficiently strong irregularities, depressions, bulges or crooked corners, then they must be leveled. The alignment of walls can be done using plaster or gypsum plasterboard sheets. It should be noted that gypsum plasterboard can easily hide even very large wall defects. Working with gypsum plasterboard sheets, unlike plaster, is quite simple, does not take much time, is less dirty and is accessible to a non-professional.
Tools for gluing vinyl wallpaper.There are two ways to install gypsum boards. The first method involves gluing the sheets to the walls with a special adhesive. The second method is to install gypsum boards on a frame made of metal profiles. Before pasting the room with vinyl wallpaper, it is necessary to plaster the walls using beacon profiles, which are set on the walls according to the level. After leveling the walls with plaster, putty is applied to the entire wall surface. Putty has a finer structure, which makes the surface smoother. Between all layers of plaster and putty, it is necessary to apply a primer. The primer is applied to the layers of plaster or putty only after they have been processed with sandpaper. Before , the entire surface of the walls is well primed, regardless of which option for leveling the walls was chosen. Priming the surface also prevents rapid absorption of water from the wallpaper glue. This means that the vinyl wallpaper will not fall off after a while. Return to contents</a>
The basic rules of pasting walls
Basic requirements for gluing vinyl wallpaper.Immediately before pasting, you need to dismantle all switches and sockets, isolate the remaining ends of the wires, and dismantle the door frames. Any wallpaper cannot be pasted with open windows. There should be no drafts in the room until the adhesive has completely dried. You can paste the wallpaper end-to-end from any convenient place. Before pasting the first strip, you need to mark the vertical. To do this, apply a level to the wall surface, mark a vertical line with a construction pencil. Then paste the first strip along this line. All other strips are glued end-to-end (one to another). With this method of pasting, it is necessary to coat the edges of the wallpaper well. Additional vertical lines every 3 m will help maintain accuracy when pasting.
Technology of gluing vinyl wallpaper.Depending on the type of the canvas, the glue is applied to the wall and the wallpaper strip or only to the wall. Applying glue only to the wall is practiced when using vinyl wallpaper on non-woven fabric. Unlike a paper base, a non-woven base does not require deep impregnation with an adhesive composition. The pasted strip must be aligned with the previous strip or along the applied vertical line, smooth the canvas tightly with a special rubber roller, driving out air bubbles, excess glue, smoothing out the resulting folds. The strip must be completely glued, have a flat and smooth appearance. Vinyl wallpaper cannot be stretched in width. When drying, they shrink, and cracks can form at the joints. Therefore, it is recommended to smooth this wallpaper not with a spatula, but with a special rubber roller. For joints, a small rubber roller is used for rolling the seams. Return to the table of contents</a>
Features of wallpaper wallpapering
To ensure that nothing distracts you from your work, you need to prepare all the necessary tools in advance:
Scheme for gluing vinyl wallpaper in corners.The glue is selected in strict accordance with the type of wallpaper and the type of wallpaper base. This will help to avoid unpleasant moments during their use (the appearance of yellow spots, divergence of joints, partial peeling of the wallpaper). The glue should be diluted according to the instructions, which are printed on each pack of glue. If the ceiling line is even, plain wallpaper can be immediately cut into strips. If the ceiling line is not perfectly even, the wallpaper is cut only after determining the length of the desired strip. Wallpaper with a pattern requires perfect fitting. On such rolls, the fitting step is necessarily indicated by a special symbol. It should be noted that each roll has special symbols that convey all the necessary information to the consumer. Pasting wallpaper in a doorway is a rather complicated process. If the canvas goes into the doorway, then there is no need to cut the strip. You need to glue it entirely and only then cut off the unnecessary remainder with a knife along the contour of the opening. It is also not very convenient to glue the canvas behind heating radiators. Therefore, the wall behind the radiator can be painted with paint tinted to match the color of the wallpaper. After finishing the wallpapering work, it is necessary to put the door frames in place, screw in the sockets and switches (after carefully cutting holes in the wallpaper with a construction knife), and decorate the top of the wallpaper with a border or ceiling plinth. If, before gluing vinyl wallpaper, you carefully study the main stages of the work, the features of pasting the walls, the rules for preparing the surface, then this process will bring satisfaction, joy and expensive experience.
