What is non-woven wallpaper for painting

Performing repairs or cosmetic renovation of the room, you have to solve a number of issues related to the choice of materials for decoration. Now the range of offers is so great that even the most experienced employees do not know all the options: almost every week there is something new in large construction stores. It was such a novelty recently was flizeline wallpaper for painting. Of course, now that they have already gained a well-deserved popularity, the situation has radically changed, and their predecessors on a simple paper basis slowly go down in history. And, it does not depend on the desire of buyers - the industry simply "turns off" such a production. Accordingly, now wallpaper fleece can be bought in any specialized store. This is quite natural, if you recall their advantages.

What is the non-woven wallpaper

In German, the word "non-woven" means "non-woven fabric". Its basis is not paper, but in a certain way pressed cellulose fibers, additionally glued with special additives. Due to this, the change in the size of the pasted cloths is practically absent, than paper wallpapers can not "boast", especially the lower price category. In addition, the strength of non-woven fabric is higher. The level of air permeability is quite sufficient to call such wallpaper "breathing".

There are several types of such wallpapers. So, in the market you can buy "fleece with a building" - these are rolls with a width of 1 m and a length of 20-25 m. In fact, this is a real fleece. The second type - non-woven wallpaper for painting. In contrast to the first option, they have a palpable structure: they are thin enough to be light, but at the same time, strong enough not to tear in the hands. Externally, non-woven wallpaper under painting resembles a paper-blotter from Soviet notebooks, with the only difference being that the bulk structure-print is whiter than the base. After gluing (by the way, the glue is applied only to the surface-substrate) and drying, wallpaper must be painted. For this you can use water-based paint. The optimum result is achieved with a double pass: along, and after the layer dries, across the glued rolls.

The third type is represented by wallpaper, in which the base is non-woven, and the top layer is made of another material, for example, polyvinyl chloride (vinyl). These are already finished products, they do not require painting.

The main advantage

In comparison with paper variants, non-woven wallpaper for painting have a unique ability to hide microcracks. Let us dwell on this point in more detail. Residents of private houses are well aware that even on ideally plastered walls and ceilings, cracks develop over time. They can be quite insignificant, but, nevertheless, noticeable. The situation is exacerbated if mistakes were made during the construction of the house: a weak foundation that allows settling; Incorrectly selected material for masonry; Violation of finishing technology. By the way, even such a seemingly reliable material, like gypsum cardboard, can crack at the sheet joint, even when using a reinforcing mesh and a special putty. By pasting non-woven wallpaper, you can not worry that the appeared cracks will damage the strip, as it would be with paper variants.