Wallpapering : how to prepare the wall

How to prepare the wall for wallpapering: remove the old finish

No matter how decorated the walls above, is to remove the old finish before a new facelift.

Note!Exceptions are smooth walls covered with acrylic or latex paint with a thin layer without fixing glossy coatings.

remove old wallpaper from the walls of old wallpaper

need to soak with warm water (use a soap solution to greasy surfaces).

What you will need to remove old wallpaper from the walls:

• bucket or basin with warm water (soapy water);
• big sponge, brush or roller;
• spray;
• spatula or trowel;
• ladder.

Procedure:

1. wallpaper needs to be wetted with water convenient for you.The easiest way to do this, first go through them wet roller, brush or sponge, and then periodically sprinkling spray.So water will not run on the arms and walls, and wetting will be uniform.
2. spatula poddevat sheets and remove them from the walls, trying to disrupt the entire list at once.If the wallpaper is torn and exfoliate, so do not end up wet - go back to Step 1.
3. Remove soggy remnants of wallpaper from the walls with a damp sponge and a trowel.

Note!If the old wallpaper on the decorative layer stratified and a simple paper, most likely, the layer - substrate.Manufacturers suggested that it would serve as an excellent basis for the new wallpaper.If you are satisfied with the quality of the walls, it is not necessary to remove the substrate, can be glued directly on top of the new wallpaper.

Remove the whitewash from the walls

Wallpaper glue to whitewash can not be categorically as it would be desirable to avoid the dirty and unpleasant procedure wash whitewash.Once the wallpaper dry, they immediately fall behind the walls.

There are several ways to wash whitewash from the walls.The most popular - to blur it up until you reach the concrete.But you can use a clean method - soak whitewash paste and remove one glued seam where the adhesive composition has grab, but not yet cured.

Note!When the cover is removed, it's time to figure out whether you have enough outlets, whether they are located and whether you want to transfer switch conveniently.At this point, the easiest way to adapt itself electrocommunications.

Assessment of walls and eliminating serious defects

After the old finish has been removed from the surface, it is possible to assess the quality of the walls.

1. Are they equal?
2. there any cracks and holes?
3. Do plaster falls off?
4. Is there a fungus or other suspicious spots?

curved walls can be leveled by means of plaster or drywall.How to do it, you can see in movies.

Cracks and holes are sealed in different ways depending on their size.For serious cracks (almost right through the wall) should be used metal tightening structure, and after plastering.This process is complicated, time-consuming and requires considerable expertise.

smaller holes can be repaired:

• soaked with liquid cement plaster cloth +;
• small pebbles, gravel + cement + plaster;
• with foam + plaster.

Minor defects can be corrected, smeared their alabaster, plaster or poshpaklevav surface of the walls.

If the old plaster is no longer pieces, do not try it "grease" in the hope that it "will stand for another hundred years."All untrusted sites need obbit and plastered over.

If parasites or fungi were found, processing of special antiseptic priming all the walls is required.In the normal case of intact surfaces is done as desired, although not clearly superfluous.

Alignment surfaces before pasting wallpaper

Regardless of whether they were on the walls of the defects or not, most of the buildings are made without compliance technology.Because of this highly granular plaster, putty and the old are often far from ideal.Add irregularities and carelessly daubed Stroebe installers of communications.

Hope that modern wallpaper thick hide these imperfections, it is not necessary.If a new finish will not succeed, you will have at least another couple of years to live in a house where the walls of the defects apparent.

Putty perfectly cope with the task of aligning the walls.When you use the obvious shortcomings of the start + finish putty, and if they are barely visible, the finish will be enough.Learn more about the spackling can on video technology.

substrates under wallpaper

That function, which previously carried out with varying degrees of success the old newspaper, and now rests "on the shoulders of" modern substrates under wallpaper.It is worth noting that they offered a great variety, depending on the functional task.The substrate may be a wallpaper:

• hide minor imperfections in the walls;
• warm the house;
• paroizolirovat room;
• improve adhesiveness wallpaper paste;
• walls protect against parasites.

There are simple thin paper substrate for the walls, and there trehhsloynye.The latter consist of polymer foam for thermal and vapor barriers and heavy paper, framing insulation.There are special materials, consisting of a dense, antiseptic impregnated paper.And those and others, and others are sold in rolls, like conventional wallpaper.In most cases, instruction on the wallpaper substrate is written on the packaging.