How to glue meter wallpaper

Almost each of us had to glue the wallpaper on our own or help with this acquaintance, so the work technology does not cause questions - applied glue and put it to the wall. But today on the market you can find unusually wide wallpaper, the pasting of which introduces even some experienced workers into a stupor. These wallpapers, to say, are very beautiful, durable and unusual, and in this article we will talk about how to glue meter wallpaper.

Characteristics of the material

The meter wallpaper is becoming more popular every day-people want something new and “fresh”, and unusual and colorful wallpaper are just that. The width of the material exceeds the usual 53 cm by almost 2 times. They are 90, 110 and even 140 cm in width, and if you know how to properly glue meter wallpaper, you can only imagine how quickly such a repair will take place!

Of course, for all attractive new products you have to give a round sum, so wide wallpaper often scares ordinary inhabitants with their price tags. But those who have already dealt with this material, unanimously claim that each penny spent is worth it - the wallpaper looks homogeneous, harmonious, serve for a long time and are unpretentious in use.

It is time to consider the advantages of meter wallpaper:

1. Gloring meter wallpaper is much faster and easier (owning technique) than standard ones.
2. The drawing is more solid.
3. Less joints and seams.
4. Wide wallpaper is produced only abroad in compliance with special technologies and high quality.
5. Despite the apparent high cost of meter wallpaper, one roll will be cheaper than two rolls of ordinary wallpaper of the same quality.
6. Ideal for large rooms.

As usual, even the highest quality products have their drawbacks, and meter wallpaper is no exception:

1. Gloring them alone is quite problematic, especially if you do it for the first time.
2. Before pasting, it is necessary to carefully prepare the walls - wide wallpapers look good only on perfectly smooth and even surfaces. Otherwise, the docking of adjacent wallpaper strips will be distorted.
3. Despite the impressive width, the length of the wallpaper may not be enough, which is why you will have to buy a roll, so you need to draw the exact measurements of the area of \u200b\u200bthe room before going to the store, especially for rooms with a non-standard square.

  Preparatory work

Before proceeding to gluing the wallpaper and the transformation of your home, it is necessary to go through several mandatory stages - to prepare the walls and conduct calculations. Without this preparation, any idea is doomed to failure, so carefully read the sections below.

How to calculate the wallpaper consumption

The correct calculation of the number of wallpaper for repair will help save an impressive amount and make work clearly and quickly. Many for this purpose decide to use a special program-an on-line calculator for wallpaper. But even the best calculator will not help you with wide wallpaper, especially if you are lucky to own an apartment with a non -standard layout.

Conducting calculations consists of several stages:

1. You should start with the perimeter, calculating it according to an elementary scheme familiar with geometry lessons: (wall length+length of the adjacent wall) x2. For example, if there is a wall with a length of 4 m and a wall with a length of 3 m, then the calculation will look like this: (4+3) x2 \u003d 14 m.
2. Measure each wall separately along the lower edge, making amendments to the niches of the doorway, recesses and protruding parts.
3. Many “subtract” the doors and windows, reasonably believing that the wallpaper will not be spent on them. But if you are not strong in the calculations and cannot calculate how much window and doorways occupy in total, it is better to let it remain a little material than in the event of an error you will have to buy another roll.
4. Do I need to glue wallpaper for furniture? Ideally - yes. In general, before pasting, it is advisable to take out all the furniture from the room. But if we are talking about a bulky wardrobe in the entire wall, which you are not going to rearrange the next few years, then you can not burden yourself with unnecessary worries and costs.
5. It is always recommended to leave a roll or half of the roll in reserve. This is necessary in case of unplanned repair, replacing a piece of wallpaper (the child painted with a felt -tip pen, the dog scratched, etc.). If you do not leave anything in stock, then finding exactly the same wallpaper on the market then can be quite problematic.

Surface preparation

When working with wide wallpaper, the most difficult and laborious occupation is not pasting, but preparation of walls. This should be started even when the ceiling is finished if you are dealing with the new building or do overhaul in the apartment.

What is the preparation of walls:

1. Remove the lid from all sockets and switches, and gently swing the holes with electrical tape or painting tape so that it can be easily removed after work.
2. Remove all the fasteners from the walls (nails, screws, self -tapping screws).
3. Remove the old coating (wallpaper, paint, etc.). It is necessary to remove completely, up to the smallest pieces.
4. If necessary, align the walls, covering the potholes and shutting down the tubercles. The dried putty should be wiped with fine sandpaper.
5. Without fail, even on perfectly smooth and even walls, one or two stood primers should be applied. It increases the clutch force (adhesion) of wallpaper with a wall and significantly saves adhesive composition. The primer clogs all the smallest holes in the wall, not allowing the glue to absorb into it and ensuring strong gluing the wallpaper. Apply glue to a completely dried primer. The deadlines of drying are different and depend on the number of layers applied. More detailed information is indicated on the packaging of the primer.

If you got an apartment with catastrophically crooked walls, the alignment of which will take a lot of forces, means and time, it makes sense to consider the option of lining the surface with drywall. In this case, you can “kill two birds with one stone” - create a perfectly even surface and make high -quality thermal insulation, which is especially true for modern apartments with thin walls.

Video how to glue wallpaper and correctly align the walls will help you work quickly and competently:

How to glue wallpaper: instruction

When all preparatory work is behind, you should check and, if necessary, replenish your construction arsenal.

For gluing wide wallpaper, you will need the following tools:

• a wide brush or flat construction brush with hard bristles for applying glue (some prefer to use rollers, but better start with a brush);
• rubber roller for ironing;
• a ruler with a length of at least 50 cm;
• simple pencil;
• construction plumb;
• chancellery knife;
• scissors;
• pure dry rag.

Gloring wide wallpapers is best together or three, because from habit, it is quite difficult to control the large sections of the material.

The technology of gluing meter wallpaper is as follows:

1. Measure the wall length with a tape measure and calculate how many stripes of the wallpaper you will need to cover it.
2. Mark the first canvas. You should start from the window, moving deep into the room. 105 cm from the corner, draw a vertical line from the ceiling to the floor, using the plumb line and ruler. Just in case, it is recommended to leave a couple of centimeters if the walls are not quite even.
3. When working in the corners, allowances should be left, which will subsequently block the panel on the adjacent wall. In this case, unsightly cracks will not form.
4. Cut the number of stripes required for one wall, making a small allowance in length of 2-3 cm.
5. Glumenly lubricate the wall with glue over the entire width of the panel, slightly going beyond the marked boundaries.
6. Since the first time it is better to glue wide wallpapers with an assistant, one of you should hold the panel over the upper edge, climb with it on the ladder to the ceiling itself and attach the edge clearly to the line of the ceiling and wall. The coincidence along the vertical border scheduled by the pencil should be controlled by the assistant.
7. Seek the wallpaper to the wall with a dry rag or hand in a rag glove, moving down from top to bottom and extinguishing the air bubbles to the edges. In no case do not try to stretch the wallpaper horizontally, otherwise after drying you will find the wrong result on which you counted on.
8. Place the following canvases close to the already pasted, applying them without overlap or gaps.

In most cases, it is not possible to accommodate an equal number of stripes on one wall, and you have to cut the panel vertically. Then the wallpaper on the adjacent wall should be applied to the corner, blocking the section so that the gap does not work, and wipe the glue from under the material with a dry rag.

Excess wallpaper (allowances along the length) should be cut only after the panel is completely dried, because otherwise the sheet is most likely to cringe in the corners, and curved gaps are formed near the floor, which cannot be disguised even by a wide skirting board.

How to glue wallpaper alone

If it turned out that you could not get an assistant for gluing wide wallpapers, you can cope with this work yourself. There is an opinion that non-standard wallpapers can be glued with only one or two assistants, but this is not so. The width of the roll is more than 100 cm, and the scale of the person’s hands is 150 cm, so you can easily cope alone, dock the seams and level the panel.

The principle of gluing is exactly the same as in the case of working with an assistant. If the first time it was not possible to stick the canvas evenly, it can be removed and applied to the wall again - dense material, as a rule, allows this to do this without prejudice to the structure.

Playing hard -to -reach places

Places behind the batteries, in the corners and areas above the doorways always cause difficulties, especially when we are talking about wide wallpaper. To glue the panel behind the battery, you will have to cut the panel into several small parts. It is best to cut one canvas so that it is easier to recreate the original pattern.

To make the drawing completely coincide, in such places it is quite problematic. And if an inexperienced person can still cope on the doorway, then this can only be done for the battery on condition that you have appropriate experience or design skills.

First, it is necessary to glue a piece of wallpaper to the free section of the wall, and then level it according to a pre -designated vertical. The second segment is glued from the opposite end of the battery, aligned as clearly as possible, and the seam is closed with an edge. It is unlikely that you can do such an operation perfectly the first time, so you are patient.

Flosely wallpaper will be the best choice for inexperienced builders - their position on the wall can easily be adjusted for 10 minutes after the sticker. But to make it possible, it is necessary to use adhesive compounds without additives for quick solidification.

Useful tips for beginners

Below are useful tips for beginners from professional builders who will help you learn how to glue non -woven meter wallpapers correctly and reliably:

1. Before gluing, prepare the walls as thoroughly as possible. It is impossible to overdo it in this regard - the more perfect the surface will be, the more likely the wallpaper will stick more evenly and beautifully.
2. To improve the stability of the adhesive composition, it is recommended to primed the surface.
3. It is extremely important to create suitable temperature conditions in the room in order to ensure uniform drying of glue. Otherwise, the wallpaper sheets can be deformed, and the drawing at the joints will move.
4. During gluing and until completely dry, do not allow the formation of drafts.
5. The humidity in the room should be minimal, otherwise the glue will dry for a long time, and leave the quality of the work the best. In the worst case, high humidity can provoke the appearance of fungi and mold under the wallpaper.
6. It is recommended to glue vinyl meter wallpaper in the summer (before the start of the heating season).
7. It should be borne in mind that behind the batteries the wallpaper will be exposed to high temperatures for a long time, so they can cringe and move away from the wall.
8. In order to deal with the process of gluing wide wallpaper, it is enough to make markings only for the first segment. But if you are not sure, it is better to play it safe and mark the whole room, immediately counting and cutting the roll into the right number of paintings.
9. Inexperienced builders who want to cope on their own, it is better to start acquaintance with the world of wide formats with non -woven wallpaper, since they do not need to be smeared with glue (only the wall), and it is easier to handle them than with other species.
10. If you bought non -woven wallpaper, purchase glue, designed specifically for them and recommended by the manufacturer.
11. It is very convenient to use two ladders to ensure uniformly leveling the canvas on both sides.
12. Many inexperienced builders do not know how much time should pass after gluing before you can open the windows and ventilate the room. It should be taken into account the pace of drying of the adhesive and the type of wallpaper, since some are enough for a day, and a friend will dry for 3-4 days. Information about this can be read on the packaging of the adhesive.
13. And the most important rule is to prevent drafts during work, otherwise, be sure that you will have to redo everything again.

The meter wallpaper gradually ceases to be a outlandish novelty, and they can be found in almost any apartment. Another question is whether you yourself will make repairs or prefer to pay a construction company? We hope that after reading this article, you will not have difficulties with independent gluing of wide wallpaper.