Was about to hang some wallpaper last night when I was pitched a curve-ball...instructions say to paste the wall, not the paper. Now it's taken me long enough to get the hand of pasting the wall! So I was wondering - what woud happen if I just used reegular "paste-the-paper" paste and treated this just like "paste-the-paper" wallpaper?
It's fine to paste the paper in the normal way, you don't need to allow the paper to 'soak' for 10 mins like traditional and you don't get the expansion/shrinkage that you do with traditional papers. Three out of the last four papering jobs I've done have involved paste the wall stuff, I pasted the paper on each and didn't have any issues. Crack on.
Tray and 9" roller and paste (roll) the wall. Don't take 2 mins and just brush out top and bottom. Normally use ready mixed for paste the wall. Quicker than standard paper by some time
There are different ways of papering depending on the type of paper, but some delicate papers you are far better papering the wall rather than the paper because the paper becomes extremely fragile when wet so the faster your get it on the better.
Finished this job at the weekend and was fairly pleased with the paste the wall technique. Definietley easier to slide the paper about. The main problem was that the bottom 24 inches of the paper wanted to roll back up and whilst I was sliding the top into position it would rest against the wall - meaning that the face side of the paper ended up with a line of paste across it. It washed off fine, so not a biggie, but would prefer to find a solution to this problem before I did it again!
After cutting length of paper, roll back up ‘inside out’, ie with the finished face on the inside, can secure loosely with elastic band and allow to ‘relax’ for few mins (paper, not you) This will take the papers eagerness to roll back up away. Depends on weight of paper, some just roll inside out then it’s gone almost immediately Then you can just pick up length or loosely fold in half and move over to wall and lay paper in place - definitely helps
Thanks Dave, will try that next time. Other thing I had thought about was pasting the last 12" or so of the paper to make it a little more 'bottom heavy'.