How to glue meter wallpaper: detailed instructions

Many for some reason believe that you can paste wallpaper yourself quickly and without much effort. To some extent they are right, but only in part. Because a sufficiently large number of home craftsmen still live with old ideas about this procedure, when both the finishing material and the pasting technology were almost antediluvian.

How did it look like before? People bought cheap paper wallpapers in the store (others were simply not sold, and they were not manufactured), they quickly pasted them on top of existing ones, especially without being puzzled by the preliminary preparation, after which it was left to rejoice at the results of the "repair". Today things are somewhat different. The market presents a huge number of various kinds of this finishing material, and the wallpaper is offered not paper, although there are also such, but vinyl, fabric, non-woven base, bamboo, etc. All of them are made of modern materials and based on innovative technologies, And therefore the process of pasting requires a competent approach. Moreover, the wallpaper today is available in various widths - from 53 cm to one meter six centimeters. And just like that, with a pounce, not having at least minimal skills and enough basic knowledge, they will not be stuck.

No, of course, you can put any tapestries on the wall, but the result will not always please you. This is especially true of wide wallpaper, or, as they are called, meter. Not only is it difficult enough to work with them due to their large size, they are also extremely capricious in terms of exactingness to the surface to be glued. Therefore, anyone who thinks about how to glue a wall-paper wallpaper, must carefully study all available information about it before proceeding directly to the process itself. Which, in fact, we intend to submit below. And let's start, perhaps, with the basics.

What is a meter wallpaper

The most important thing that a beginner should know is that there are only two kinds of wallpaper. Or vinyl on a non-woven basis, or purely non-woven. The latter, as a rule, go under painting.

Non-woven fabric is, in its essence, a nonwoven material created on the basis of cellulose fibers, which are fastened with a special polymer. It is much thinner than the traditional paper wallpaper base, but at the same time it is much stronger. It is this feature that every master should be aware of, who is looking for an answer to the question of how to glue wallpaper on a non-woven base (meters or standard widths, because there are such ones - it is not so important). Because, possessing a mass of merits, this finishing material has one significant drawback - it is extremely demanding on the surface to be trimmed. And even in spite of the fact that non-woven wallpaper is quite able to hide minor defects and irregularities, it is necessary to conduct preparatory work before the actual process of pasting. And sometimes quite large-scale. About this - further.

On the need to prepare a base surface

In the question "How to correctly glue non-woven wallpaper on the wall?" The key word is "non-woven", not "meter". Of course, it is difficult enough to paste without a skill beautifully and smoothly so large and heavy piece of wallpaper, the area of which is more than two and a half square meters. However, this is not the main thing. If the finishing material is thin enough (and such wallpaper can be very thick and almost transparent to light) or has a light tint, then, if there is a heterogeneous color under it, all this "geography" will be visible under a new coating. In other words: if the wall is dark, plus there are plots covered with putty on it, all this beauty will simply be visible under the non-woven fabric. Therefore, rule number one: you can glue wallpapers only on a uniform surface color. The desired white.

Since the manufacturer recommends to glue the meter wallpaper without spreading the finishing material (that is, only the wall is treated with glue), the base surface must be clean, dry and not absorbing glue with the speed of sound. This is the second rule.

And the third. Since to glue a meter wallpaper is strictly a joint in the joint (there can be no overlapping), it is necessary that the base base be smooth. The presence on it of all kinds of pebbles and irregularities will not allow you to make an ideal seam.

It is with these rules in mind that preliminary work is required.

Wall Preparation

First of all, you need to completely remove the old wallpaper (whitewash, paint) from the wall. Then it is necessary to repair all cracks and other possible defects. Then there are, of course, several options for training, but all of them, each in its own way, are not entirely suitable. Ideally, the wall needs to be ground and primed. Let not thoroughly, as for painting, as small defects disappear under the wallpaper, but still at least once walk through the putty on the wall you need. As a result, you get a white, smooth, well-fitting surface with a finishing material. That is what fluseline wallpaper requires.

If, for some reason, this is not possible, then it is desirable to conduct at least several types of work. First of all, it is necessary to treat the walls with a deep penetration primer. After this wall, not so I will "drink" the glue. And then, since it is strongly recommended to glue the meter wallpaper only on a surface that is uniform in color, it is necessary to treat the substrate again with ground. Only this time tselenirovannym. Thanks to it, the walls will turn white.

About adhesive

Remember: no universal compounds should not be purchased. Buy glue, intended solely for non-woven fabric. Since to glue vinyl meter wallpaper is necessary, promazyvaya only the walls, then the composition for the work should be designed specifically for this type of work. That is, on the box with glue there must be an inscription: "For non-woven wallpaper". As to the method of preparation of the composition, the whole process is usually detailed on the package.

Marking of walls

After the surface has been prepared, you need to start marking. By and large, the wide wallpaper is glued in exactly the same way as the narrow ones. The only difference is that, in the case of a large number of doors (for example, in the hallway), it may be difficult to trim. Yet the canvas is wide enough. Well, of course, without the skills of one with such a heavy and wide piece to cope will be quite difficult. Therefore, work must be carried out together. So, competently draw the walls. That is, estimate from which side it is better to start, so that in the end the inserted piece is not visible in a prominent place in a few centimeters. Sometimes it is advisable to start the pasting from the door, not from the window. Or even from the middle of the room. Once you have decided on the starting point, draw a vertical line on the wall using a plumb line or level.

Preparing wallpapers

Next, cut the wallpaper. It is not recommended to immediately cut all the rolls in the event that the wallpaper with a picture. Do this gradually, as necessary. If the finishing material without a picture, then you can cut all the wallpaper, adding five to six centimeters to the allowances along the length.

Adhesion

Since it is recommended to glue vinyl wall wallpaper on fliseline only by applying glue to the wall, then first of all this is what you are doing. Thoroughly lubricate with a roller or brush the area to be glued. After that, standing on the table (the step-ladder in this case is not suitable because of the width of the wallpaper), attach the first cloth to the wall, focusing on the outlined line. At the top leave a small margin. Then, with a rubber roller, start to smooth the canvas from the top down, carefully watching that there are no bubbles. After this, remove the rests of adhesive with rags and trim the top and bottom. The next canvas is glued in exactly the same way, but it is strictly a joint in the joint. And so to the corner.

How to glue a meter wallpaper in the corners

If you are sure that the corners in the room are absolutely equal, boldly wrap the wallpaper on the next wall and continue to glue on. Just smear more glue in addition to the angle itself. If there is no such confidence, the canvas will have to be cut. To do this, wrap it on the wall, gently walk the edge of the spatula along the corner, and then trim the wallpaper, away from the intended line by half a centimeter. Cut off a piece of overlapped lap in the corner, and then dance from its edge. In the event that you start to glue from the corner, the edge of the first cloth run on the angle of a centimeter. The second paste on it, too, overlapping under the control of the level, so that all subsequent bands fall flat.

How to glue a meter wallpaper to the ceiling

This procedure has some peculiarities. As for the preparation, the option here is one: the ceiling must be cleaned of whitewash, putty and primed. It should be white, smooth and smooth. Then you need to take care of the preparation of "forests". That is, arrange several tables so that you can freely move through them. Then stir the glue, draw an even line on the ceiling (the marking starts from the window), measure the length of the first cloth (the distance from the wall to the wall with a margin of 10 centimeters). Glue is recommended in length, not in width. After that, cut off the desired piece of wallpaper and roll it into a roll, but the front side inside. We spread the ceiling with glue and begin to glue the wallpaper, gradually unwinding the roll and smoothing the surface of the finishing material with a roller. The procedure should be carried out only together (one glues and smoothes, the second unwinds and corrects). We cut off the surplus, remove the remains of the glue, glue the next strip in exactly the same way and the joint in the joint.

Conclusion

We tried to tell in detail how to properly glue meter wallpaper. As you can see, the procedure differs little from that of working with conventional materials, except that only the wall needs to be smeared. But in order to have such an opportunity and get a good result, this wall needs to be properly prepared. Which is, perhaps, the most important nuance of this kind of finishing work.