To glue the wallpaper on the wall and not be disappointed with the result, you need to follow a certain technique. Perfected by time and the experience of generations, it guarantees that the wallpaper will be glued. Quality and aesthetics will, of course, depend on your efforts and accuracy..
How to glue wallpaper on walls correctly?
There are three main steps in how to paste wallpaper on a wall:
- preparation of walls,
- pasting a straight wall,
- corner gluing.
Wall preparation is the most important step in paper wallpapering. If the walls are poorly prepared or not even enough as a result of the work, then no matter how hard you try, no matter what efforts you make later, even the best and highest quality wallpaper in the world will look bad in the end. Conversely, if the walls are ideally prepared, then even the simplest paper wallpaper will look neat and beautiful..
To prepare the walls for gluing paper wallpaper means to remove the old wallpaper, to clean the crumbling plaster from the wall, to putty the irregularities, to level the surface if necessary, either by adding plaster or using drywall. Sand the walls over the entire surface, wipe off dust, apply a primer. For all the nuances of working with wall coverings, it is better to get acquainted additionally in order to have a more detailed understanding of the process.
We start gluing wallpaper on the wall. We divide the roll into parts according to the measured vertical length, plus five centimeters, for trimming. It is important if you have a patterned wallpaper you will need more stock.
We start gluing paper wallpaper on the wall from right to left, indented from the corner. We apply all strips with glue applied, from top to bottom, smooth out from air bubbles, cut off excess from above and below.
How to glue wallpaper on the walls in the corners, let’s take a look. Spread the glue evenly with a brush over the wall surface and the selected strip of wallpaper. Next, apply the overlapping strip to the corner and the adjacent wall, and smooth it from top to bottom as usual. Next, along a ruler set exactly to the corner, cut off the excess wallpaper with a clerical knife. Perform the same operation with the adjacent wall..
After gluing the wallpaper on the walls, it remains to glue the places behind the batteries and above the windows. It is not very convenient to glue behind the batteries, it is better to remove them altogether, if this is not possible, then carefully refuel, well glued and pre-cut “tails” for radiators.
Wallpaper above the windows is glued in the usual way, it makes sense to trim the length of the canvas after pasting, especially if the slopes are not even.
So, you got acquainted with the main stages and already theoretically know how to glue wallpaper on the wall. We wish you good luck with your renovation.
