Wallpapering instead of painting

When it comes to wallpapering many is a classic situation comedies and series in mind: A young man stands on the third rung of the stepladder and desperately struggling with the already when pasted wallpaper, in which he becomes entangled more and more. This Wallpapering is not that hard. Make sure, however, these ten mistakes when wallpapering to avoid. Then you get your wallpapers easily on the wall. Our videos demonstrate how you paper properly to windows in roof slopes or on the ceiling.

 

Thus, the wall design with wallpaper is not to annoying pain, you should supply before starting work with the necessary tools. Most importantly, a sufficiently large trestle table on which a complete wallpaper roll has space and can be pasted.

Rent or buy trestle table

Who do not want to buy their own, can borrow a trestle table. Many hardware stores offer this service. In larger cities are also worth looking into the Internet, if someone from the area rented a trestle table. You can not get around the initial purchase, one should not resort to the very cheap tables. These are usually not very stable, which hampers the work. Good models are getting from about 50 euros.

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Important tools for wallpapering

In addition to the table include a ladder, brush and bucket, as well as ruler, pencil, wallpaper knife and spirit level standard. Must be removed before wallpapering still the old wallpaper, you also need a spatula and, where appropriate, a spiked roller, the so-called Nigel wallpaper. With a few tips and tricks detachment of the old wallpaper is playing slight of hand .

 

Pay attention to the amount of wallpaper

Before one can begin with wallpapering, one must be clear about how many rolls of wallpaper you need. Crucial to the requirements are room height and room dimensions. When wallpapering Samples and Murals demand must be planned very generous, because here in greater amounts of waste. Make sure when calculating on doors and windows. The different wallpapers roles differ in width and height. We have listed for you the amounts of woodchip wallpaper using the example of the default role with 33.5 mx 0.53 m:

 

Prepare the ground for wallpapers thoroughly

For the new wallpaper keeps well, you should clean the surface thoroughly and remove old wallpaper and paint residues. They are usually solved through the paste and the new wallpaper can not adhere to the wall. With drywall, you should be extra careful: If you forget the primer on a plasterboard wall and it just paper going, get the wallpaper down ever again without damaging the surface. The wallpaper combines so tightly with the paper layer of plasterboard that you completely tear down this surface and the plaster would be exposed.

Whether the substrate suitable for Tape, you should first test with a single sheet or a smaller piece of wallpaper. If you observe that the wallpaper does not connect with the ground, you have to make the extra work and prime the walls before wallpapering. However, this is still better than having finished papered the whole room and then finding that the wallpaper slip back from the wall.

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