It depends on how well the wallpaper is chosen andare pasted, the mood of the owners for several years to come depends. Pasting them is one of the final stages of apartment renovation. This work is quite sophisticated, requiring skill, accuracy, patience. At the same time, it is so simple that the owners often do it themselves, without spending money on hiring professionals. If you are gluing wallpaper for the first time, then you want to gradually gain experience, choose those that will require as little of your skill and effort as possible. How easy or difficult it is to glue wallpaper depends on many conditions:
Wallpaper is a universal material for decorating walls in a room.
- their material;
- their width;
- their thickness and weight;
- drawing on them;
- their colors;
- method of applying glue;
- the required quality of the walls.
What are the wallpaper?
Methods of finishing walls with fabric:a - fastening the new wallpaper to the wall, b - checking the verticality of the folds using a plumb line on a cord. The most common types are paper, vinyl, and non-woven. Paper wallpaper is good because it is cheap, lightweight, and environmentally friendly. But it is short-lived, sensitive to high humidity, dirt, and requires extra care when gluing - impregnated with glue, it tears easily. They are single-layer and double-layer. The latter are stronger, but if you coat them with glue and leave them on for too long, their glued surface will dry out in minutes. So, oddly enough, it is not so easy to glue paper wallpaper. Vinyl wallpaper is the most popular. It can be on a paper or non-woven base. Its front side is covered with waterproof and airtight polyvinyl chloride. Environmentally, they are not as perfect as paper wallpaper. But they are suitable for all rooms: the wettest and the dirtiest. They are reluctantly glued in the nursery. They are quite durable and resistant to mechanical impact. If there is too much glue on them, you don't have to worry about them tearing. It is not dangerous if their front side gets dirty with glue when gluing. Return to contents</a>
How important is the preparation of the walls?
The procedure for wallpapering.Washable wallpaper - one of the subspecies of vinyl - has a significant drawback. Their thinness requires careful preparation of the walls, filling in depressions, cracks, unevenness, otherwise all the smallest flaws will be visible behind the wallpaper: sand grains of plaster, brush hairs, nail heads. Preparation of walls - an important stage of work. Sometimes it turns out to be more labor-intensive than the wallpapering itself. Whatever you are going to wallpaper the walls with, they must be flawless - free of old wallpaper, peeling paint, whitewash, leveled, putty, sanded and primed. But wallpaper made of foamed vinyl allows for roughness of the walls. The relief pattern on their surface makes them thick and creates some inconvenience when gluing. They need to be smoothed with a rubber roller so as not to damage the bulk coating. Their thickness hides minor wall irregularities. The colorful wallpaper pattern also masks wall flaws. If the wall itself has become colorful after puttying, then dark spots will show through thin, light, single-color wallpaper. You are unlikely to be satisfied with such work. So, if you were lazy at the preparation stage, then dark colors. Return to contents</a>
Which wallpaper is easier to paste?
Wallpaper pasting tools.Wallpaper that does not require pattern matching is easier to glue. As a rule, they give the room a strict, not very cozy look. Combining patterns of adjacent stripes takes additional time. In addition, you have to cut off an unnecessary piece from each strip, and then the calculated rolls may not be enough. But in the end, you will get a wall with a single pattern, and it will look very beautiful. The most common wallpapers are 53 cm and 106 cm wide. Narrower ones are easier to glue, especially when you have to do it without assistants. It will be difficult for an inexperienced craftsman to cope with wide ones, but with an assistant, the process will go faster, and fewer joints between the strips will give the wall a more aesthetic appearance. But you will have to better prepare the wall for them, since if it is significantly uneven, it will be impossible to accurately join the pasted strips. They are used for large rooms with even walls. Pasting wide wallpaper in the kitchen or hallway, where there are many corners and protrusions, will turn into torment. Half a meter width is a standard inherited from the USSR. The optimal width is 70 cm for imported wallpaper. Wide wallpapers are often non-woven. They differ from paper wallpaper in that the glue is spread on the wall. This is more convenient because when applying glue to the wallpaper itself, its front side, the worker’s hands and clothes, the table or floor on which the spreading is done often get dirty. Wallpaper that is wet from glue tears easily. On the other hand, the wall under non-woven wallpaper should be perfect. There are many elite types of wallpaper: natural, textile, metal, glass wallpaper. In terms of pasting technique, they are not much different from paper and vinyl, but their high cost requires extreme care. So, which wallpaper is easier to paste? The ones you like. You will be strengthened by the idea of how they will look on the wall, how much the room will be transformed with them, what a wonderful mood they will create. And it is harder to glue "compromise" ones, chosen for reasons of low or, on the contrary, high price, a pattern that does not require adjustment, a fashionable color, ease of application of glue. Do not be afraid of difficulties, glue those wallpapers that will definitely please you until the time comes to change them.</ ul>
