How to glue non-woven wallpaper?

If you picked up non-woven wallpaper for your living room, bedroom or other room’s decor in your house, you probably did it deliberately, after weighing all the pros and cons of various materials. It is these paintings that perfectly hide small defects, perfectly wash, stand out against resistance to stretching, drying, deformation. And they can easily emphasize the chosen design, because the variety of coatings of this type is very large. But all these advantages can only be fully appreciated if you know exactly how to glue the non-woven wallpaper with your own hands. It is with this stage of decoration that we will figure it out in this article so that you can design the interior with quality and beauty.

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Getting ready for work

Doing non-woven wallpaper with your own hands is much easier than, for example, decorating with paper wallpaper. This happens for the reason that the structure of the paintings with such a core has thickenings. Due to this, a thorough roughing with a laborious leveling of the walls is not needed - small bumps will hide due to the density of the decorative coating. But still there are a few organizational issues that need to be puzzled before the start of the repair. We will dwell on them a little more.

Instruments

Even before gluing non-woven wallpaper with your own hands, you need to prepare a complete set of tools. In order not to forget anything that you might need, stick to the following list:

• Roulette - the minimum length should be 5 m;
• Construction level - you can use both a liquid and a more modern laser version;
• A roller with a long pile on its roller.
• Mesh for cleaning it.
• Spatulas - you will need both narrow on a metal base, and wide of plastic.
• Brush, plumb, pointed knife.
• Foam sponge, pencil, ruler.
• Buckets or suitable containers - for the preparation of glue and for clean water.

Cooking the walls

As we have already noted, thorough roughing work is not needed to glue the non-woven wallpaper with your own hands. It is only necessary:

• remove the old decorative coating;
• clean the dust and remove the main garbage.

Important! If you decide to do everything thoroughly and wash the walls, wait until the base is dry.

But the next stage of preparation - markup, it is better not to miss. Here you facilitate your further work. Step by step, proceed as follows:

• Check the height of the surfaces in different planes and on the same wall. This is necessary in order to then clearly cut the wallpaper of the desired length and prevent the formation of unaesthetic gaps.
• Next, make vertical markings on the entire surface of the walls with a pencil, plumb line and ruler. At the same time, you withstand one step - either equivalent to 1 meter, or the coating width you have chosen.

Important! This markup will be used when gluing non-woven wallpaper with your own hands. So you spend less time on adjusting the position of individual bands of material and their joining.

We prepare the wallpaper ourselves:

1. We lay out the roll in an even strip on a horizontal surface.
2. We measure the necessary length, which should be equal to the height of the walls plus a gap of 5-10 cm.
3. We roll out and cut parts from the roll on only 1 side.
4. As a result, we get the number of strips of non-woven wallpaper that is needed for pasting the entire area of ​​the walls of your room.

Important! Do the cutting very carefully and accurately, especially if you took material with a complex large pattern. The drawing on the walls should be solid.

Choosing a good glue

When pasting walls with non-woven wallpaper, the quality of the adhesive solution is very important. He must for a long time hold sufficiently dense and heavy paintings on the walls. And here the producer of the building mixture plays a big role. Well-proven products of such brands:

• Pufas. Among the line of adhesives of this brand there is a special series designed specifically for such wallpapers. Since the work can be carried out both privately with your own hands, and with the use of special equipment, carefully pay attention to the information and markings on the package.

Important! Pufas EURO 3000 with indicator is a real find for those who want to glue non-woven wallpaper with their own hands. Color pigments in the composition will not allow to miss a single centimeter of the surface. Its composition provides optimal sliding of the canvases, hardening up to 5 minutes and the absence of traces on the finished surface.

• Quelyd - a means of the French manufacturer, which is in demand along with the goods of the above company. These products do not have a pungent odor, do not spread, glide well, evenly grasp coatings on the walls.

Important! If we talk about the shortcomings, then the adhesives of this brand are very expensive, in addition, packaged is not very convenient for the user - 350 g.

• Metylan This German manufacturer also supplies special solutions for non-woven wallpaper. Production is carried out at different factory sites, but the quality remains unchanged.

Important! Users note the stability of quality, compliance with the actual flow indicated by the company on the packaging, as well as ease of use due to the presence of pink indicators.

• Lacra. The products of a Russian company, which is an excellent alternative for those who seek not to lose on quality, but to save money. Low price, correct setting speed, stable fluidity, ease of use, even if you need to stick thick, embossed and heavy non-woven wallpaper with your own hands.

Important! The only nuance when using glues of this trademark is a small discrepancy between the actual consumption and the declared by the manufacturer.

• Emcol Universal. The adhesives of this brand are universal, so they will be very appropriate if you are going to combine non-woven wallpaper with other types of coatings, artificial stone.

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Glue non-woven wallpaper

The process of sticking takes much less time than all preparatory activities. You yourself will see this if you adhere to the recommendations from this instruction:

1. Glue the entire area of ​​the wall with glue, moving from the corner to the first marking line.

Important! Please note that the adhesive solution must be applied only to the wall - the material of the decorative coating is not smeared.

2. Glue the first sheet. Correct immediately its position so that the vertical strip clearly coincides with the marking line.
3. Smooth the wallpaper well by directing the roller from top to bottom and from the center to the edges of the wallpaper strip.

Important! Do not skip this step so that later you do not have to deal with air bubbles.

4. Remove excess glue along the edges with a foam sponge.
5. Then, in turn, glue the remaining strips, applying the material butt.

Important! A small overlap can only be done at the corners. When pasting directly on the wall area with non-woven wallpaper, this is not necessary. The material does not stretch or compress, respectively - gaps are not formed.

6. When everything is set, very carefully trim the line along the baseboards.

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Using the information in this article, you will now be able to make yourself a clear work plan, properly organize the process of preparing and pasting the walls with non-woven wallpaper. We hope that little effort has been spent, and you are already enjoying the beautiful interior, which has become the fruits of your work.