Repair is a business troublesome and expensive. But if you really want to change something in your home, the simplest thing you can do on your own is to cross the boring wallpaper. If your choice is satin wallpaper, then before you start working on the disposal of old wallpaper, it is necessary to carefully plan - purchase the necessary tools, measure the right number of rolls, calculate how much glue is needed, as well as pick up a pleasant color of the canvas. These are the most pleasant troubles, because it is thanks to the huge choice of varieties of drawings and colors, satin wallpapers and are popular and have positive feedback.
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What are satin wallpapers?
Wallpaper is called a special rolled material, which is designed for decoration in the walls and ceilings. And this material is applied with a special glue. Wallpapers have a different basis - then this paper, whether it is vinyl, or it is Flizelin. In addition, wallpapers have different external coverage.
Most often distinguish the following categories of wallpaper:
- Paper.
- Vinyl.
- Fliseline.
- Textile.
- Velor.
- Under painting.
- Gymelomes.
- Wall mural.
Satin wallpaper belongs to the category "vinyl" wallpaper, as they are also called "flat vinyl". Another very common name satin wallpaper is silk-screen.
Satin wallpapers are made by hot embossing of various drawings on the surface of the wallpaper. Thanks to this technique, it is possible to embody even the most bold and unusual design solutions into reality. Despite the drawings, the surface of these wallpapers is always smooth and silky to the touch. Satin wallpapers can be both matte and pearl or spraying.
One of the delusions of consumers (it, by the way, is often fueled by negligent vendors) - satin wallpapers are made of silk threads - from here, they say, and the name "Silkography". In fact, this is not at all. Of course, thanks to the latest technologies, most often satin wallpapers mimic silk fabric, but all this is only due to very complex and, of course, the dear method of processing vinyl. The highest quality satin wallpapers are manufactured in Germany.
How to glue satin wallpaper
Silk screen refers to heavy types of wallpaper. In general, the sticking of satin wallpaper is similar to the attachment of the usual fluiselin coating, but there are features and rules. For example, due to the lack of any relief on satin wallpaper, it is necessary to very carefully prepare the surface on which the canvas will be applied. For example, on the walls it is desirable to do at least a bump.
The most important difference between satin wallpaper from others - the glue must be applied not to wallpaper, but on the wall, as it is properly glued to the dry cloth to the moistened surface.
What will take for work
- Wallpaper.
- Glue.
- Soap solution.
- Scissors.
- Knife.
- Plumb.
- Primer.
- Pencil.
- Ruler.
- Putty knife.
- Level.
- Rule (metal).
- Sandpaper
- Roller (rubber).
- Brush.
- Dry rags.
- Structural paper.
- Water.
- Tableware la glue.
- Step stair.
Preparation of walls
How to glue silk screen on old wallpaper
First of all, you need to remove the old wallpaper from the walls.
- Thoroughly moisten the wall with soap solution and leave them for 10 minutes.
- If the wallpaper is very thick, then it is better to add dry glue into the soap solution.
- To moisten the wallpaper well, do shorts on them.
- Remove the old wallpaper with a spatula.
How to glue wallpaper on paint
If on the walls on which you plan to stick satin wallpaper, paint is applied, then it is necessary to get rid of it only in one case - if the painted surface is old and peeling. If the paint rests well, there are no chips and cracks on the wall, then it is quite thoroughly wash the surface and stick to it.
In the event that the paint is old, then it is necessary to get rid of it - with the help of reagents, and then the surface is cleaned with a brush for metal work.
How to glue wallpaper on plasterboard
Despite the fact that the plasterboard is an ideally smooth surface for sticking wallpaper, glue satin on them is undesirable. It is first necessary to process the necessary surface of the primer, and then the wipeloky - starting and finishing, and then again the primer.
How to glue wallpaper for plaster
Do not glue a silk screen on a bare plaster. Previously, you need to remove the top layer of lime, and all chips and the crack shashpat. The surface prepared in this way must be washed with warm water, after which it is polished.
How to glue wallpaper on concrete
It is categorically contraindicated to glue satin wallpapers (as well as many others, however) on concrete, as stains may appear on the wallpaper. Before glue wallpaper, concrete must be placed, and then process the soil.
How to Align Walls
If satin canvas fall ugly, then all your efforts will go to the pump, so it is from how you prepare the walls depends on the work.
- Carefully check the surface on which you will be glued with silk screen.
- Remove the plaster that does not hold well - it is better to sharpen again than cross the wallpaper.
- The walls that you were leveled by putty will need to clean up well - using the sandpaper.
- Before glued wallpaper, once again wipe the walls from dust and dirt - use the primer for these purposes.
- Old coatings that were on the walls often hide mold and bending, so it is necessary to carefully prepare the walls.
- Satin wallpapers have a paper base - it can bloom and fall off if the walls are not prepared properly.
How to prepare glue
- Buy Satin Wallpaper to buy special glue for vinyl wallpaper - it is based on PVA. But the usual glue for wallpaper "Universal" is suitable.
- Carefully read the instructions and dig glue, as written - in accordance with the proportions.
- You should not wait until the glue is shown - apply it on the wall, where he will dry a little. Thanks to this, the hitch wallpaper with the wall will be very high.
How to prepare wallpaper
As soon as the walls are ready for sticking wallpaper, you need to prepare wallpapers themselves.
- Basically, from one wallpaper rolls, for which there is no need to pick up the drawing, three or four bands are coming out.
- If you need to pick up the drawing, then more than three lanes will not be released from one roll.
- Measure the walls, measure the desired length of the wallpaper and add a bit - centimeters five to eight to the reserve.
- Sliced \u200b\u200bbands fold with a pile, front side down.
Stages of work execution
- The first wallpaper band must be glued near the window, and then continue to move around the perimeter.
- Squake best from the top edge.
- Wallpaper band is applied as close as possible under the ceiling as possible, and then we are painted from above.
- If you do not want a skew, the first strip with slope or by level so that everything is strictly perpendicular to the ceiling and the floor.
- All other bands must be placed strictly jack.
- If the wallpaper is with a pattern, pre-pick up the picture and spread the wallpaper in the sequence in which they should go.
- Wet, satin wallpapers can be stretched, and the striking - shrink. Do not stretch the wallpaper, because spaces can remain - gaps between stripes.
- Ideally, satin wallpapers need to glue a mustache - at least one millimeter.
- Under the wallpaper can be sized paper strip.
- Wallpaper smoothed on the walls using a roller - due to this, you can drive out air. The roller needs to move from the center of the strip to the edges.
- If you have not noticed that the air remained under the wallpaper, you need to pierce the bubble with a needle or pin, and then press a little on the bubble to come out.
- Make sure that two bands connect on the corners - it is advisable to make a mix with overlay here - its depth depends only on how smooth angles.
- When you pasted the whole room, you can start cutting off extra wallpaper - first the sharp knife you need to cut off all unnecessary under the ceiling, and then near the floor.
- Leave the room for a few days so that the wallpaper is well dried.
- As soon as the wallpaper is dried and the walls are dried, you can kill the plinth and glue the curb on the ceiling.
How to glue satin wallpaper on the ceiling
Punning wallpapers on the ceiling is a very time-consuming job: first, it is physically inconvenient, secondly, it is not easy to strover the canvas, thirdly, not visible irregularities and errors.
- Before glue satin wallpaper on the ceiling, it is necessary to stick a special structural paper.
- Wallpaper on the ceiling glued from the windows of the enclosure. Thanks to this, you can visually hide the joints.
- Do not glue wallpaper on the ceiling yourself - invite the assistant for these purposes - the work will be advanced and faster, and better.
- After the wallpaper will be pasted, you will need to ensure tightness in the room, otherwise defects may appear from drafts.
