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Wallpapering advice please
Anonymous user 15/03/2024 - 2.35 PM
Hi! I am currently attempting to wallpaper a small wall as a feature wall. However failing! It's paste the wall paper and everytime I try to put it up it sticks to the wall and gets in a mess and ripped! Also how do you cut the edges as it keeps ripping and my coving and wall edges are uneven. Many thanks from a frustrated female!
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Adrian Bone
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Paste a little wider than the width of the paper usualy 21"so go 24" paste one drop at a time. to trim top and bottom push paper to be trimed with paperhaning brush to ceiling hold fermly with a broad pallett blade and with a sharp stanley knife cut long stroke along ceiling same process for skirtings.wash seams, ceiling ,skirtings. Wall edges make straight as possible with powder filla rubbing down to a straight edge, or you can use decorators chalk to create straight edge.Ihope this is helpfull.
Answered21 August 2017
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Chestnutt Decorators
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I find that also pasting the paper helps giving you a little more time in moving the paper.
Also you can use a sharp Stanley blade but this can rip .
Using your thumb as a guide draw a line with a pencil ,slightly more than were you would want the cut line ,then peal back paper ,top first and cut to the lower side of the pencil line with sharp scissors.
Same at the bottom.
I hope this helps.
Gary
Answered13 September 2017
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