How to properly glue vinyl wallpaper. Instructions for beginners

When choosing wallpaper for repair, pay attention to vinyl - very popular, comfortable, beautiful and practical. These wallpapers have two layers, the top one - foamed polyvinyl chloride, and the bottom one - paper or non-woven fabric. It is very convenient to cover vinyl with wallpaper in new homes, because the elastic, slightly stretched wallpaper structure showed itself well during the shrinkage of the house, they do not tear, do not deform and do not peel off. There is a huge amount of vinyl wallpaper: for painting, embossed, patterned, various decorative effects. When buying wallpaper, compare the batch number, which should be the same on all rolls. How correctly to paste wallpaper? On the roll there is an instruction that shows in detail which glue should be used for their gluing, how to properly glue vinyl wallpaper, the symbols indicate their technical characteristics.

Preliminary preparation of the surface of walls

For a high-quality sticker, you first need to prepare the wall surface. A dense structural top layer of wallpaper allows to glue them on not very even walls with small defects. But their surface must be dry and primed. Before priming the wall, it is necessary to repair all cracks and visible defects with the help of putty. Priming the walls with a special primer, or diluted with water wallpaper glue. After drying the primed walls, you can proceed to the wallpaper sticker. Yes, it is recommended to remove skirting boards, upper panels of switches and sockets.

Glue wallpaper

How to properly glue vinyl wallpaper? Actually, there are no special difficulties in this work. We measure the height of the wall and cut the roll with the wallpaper into strips of the necessary length (+ 10 cm). If the material has a picture, then before you cut the strip, it must necessarily be combined. By the way, wallpaper with a large picture is bought with a "margin", necessary for combining the picture.

The cut strips are spread on a smooth smooth surface with the wrong side up, displacing each by 10-15 cm. Preliminarily, according to the instructions, a special glue is made for this type of wallpaper.

Now carefully look at the instructions to them, there are clues on how to properly glue vinyl wallpaper. There are three types of wallpaper: when sticking some, glue is applied only to wallpaper, another type involves applying glue to both the wallpaper and the wall. The third type of glue, applying glue only on the wall. In this case, it is not necessary to cut the wallpaper into strips, they are glued directly from the roll, but cut off already on the wall. To regret glue it is not necessary, put it densely and carefully that there were no not glued sites.

Glue the wallpaper better with the assistant. One is located on top, under the ceiling, and the other from below serves a strip of wallpaper. It is better to start from the door, or from the window. First, using a level, you define an even vertical, which will be the starting point for starting work. Stripes of wallpaper glue butt, densely adjusting them to each other. On the wall, spread out with a special wallpaper trowel or a stiff brush, and the joints are rolled with a rubber roller. It is impossible to tighten the strips forcefully, rub them with a rag or brush, which can deform their face layer. Wet wallpaper is quite vulnerable in this respect. In addition, if they are strongly stretched during gluing, then after drying they will shrink, and a gap will form between the strips.

How to properly glue vinyl wallpaper in the corner. For this, there are standard rules. A strip of wallpaper in the corner of the room is glued so that it slightly enters the adjacent wall, no more than a few centimeters. The angle is very well and thoroughly ironed with a spatula, the wallpaper must be glued in the corner especially tightly. The next strip is pasted on the next wall, starting from the corner along an even vertical (it is determined by the plumb line).

The upper edge, if they are pasted not under the ceiling itself, is determined by a previously applied horizontal line. All possible irregularities formed during gluing are cut off after the wallpaper has dried with a knife.

The edge of the wallpaper from the bottom is also cut after drying one or two centimeters below the upper boundary of the plinth. If the skirting can not be removed, then the bottom edge of the wallpaper is bent inward 1 cm below the baseboard and well smoothed with a spatula.

In the places where the switches and sockets are located, the wallpaper during the work is not cut out. This is also done after drying, with a sharp knife. Then the edges of the cut are pressed against the panels of the sockets and switches that are screwed into place.

We tried to give the most general recommendations on how to properly paste vinyl wallpaper. However, this process is not complicated, the beginner will be able to cope.