First of all, let's look at how to glue wallpaper is not necessary. The most common mistakes newbies make are:
Plaster corners will help to quickly and easily align the outer joints of the walls. During installation, they are leveled, after which they are glued with plaster or putty. The price of corners starts from 30 rubles per 2 meters.
The exception is paper webs, which can be cut vertically. The only thing, in this case, you first need to stick a thin strip of wallpaper on the junction of the walls in case the joints diverge;
Beginners are often interested in - from what angle to start gluing wallpaper? If they are all even, then it does not matter where you start gluing. Otherwise, start gluing from an even angle to avoid warping the strips on the walls.
As you know, there are two types of angles:
Each of their types requires its own approach when pasting, therefore, further, we will separately consider the process of pasting wallpaper on external and internal corners.
The sticker instructions are as follows:
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Surface preparation. Beginners often prime the walls with their own hands only with a roller, however, as in the case of glue, it is difficult to process corners with this tool. Therefore, after priming the walls, be sure to “walk” through hard-to-reach places with a brush. |
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Applying glue. If non-woven wallpaper is glued, as mentioned above, the glue is applied to the walls, not the canvas. |
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Gluing.
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This completes the sticker.
Now consider how to stick this finishing material on the outer joints of the walls yourself:
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Surface preparation. As in the previous case, the surface must be primed and glue applied if the vinyl sheets are non-woven. |
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Bonding:
If the wallpaper is patterned, with such a small twist, you may need to trim the edge of the second canvas to match the pattern. |
Many people are interested - how to protect the wallpaper on the outer corners? For these purposes, there are special decorative corners that are glued on top of the finish.
Wallpapering has always been considered one of the easiest types of construction work that can be done on your own without expensive construction equipment, without carefully leveling the walls, and even without experience. However, not all homeworkers know where to start and why from there, and not everyone has a clear idea of \u200b\u200bhow to properly paste over the inner and outer corners.
Even if you are not constrained by funds and can afford to hire a team of workers, knowledge of the technology of some repair work will not be superfluous. You can get an idea of the real qualifications of hired workers by asking them a couple of tricky questions. For example, ask the masters how they will glue wallpaper in frankly crooked corners. True professionals will give a clear answer.
The curvature of the corners in the apartment is not always noticeable to the naked eye, but when you have to glue wallpaper in these crooked corners, unpleasant surprises begin. Perhaps gluing in the corners is the most difficult part of working with wallpaper. But if you follow a number of simple rules, the work will be quite doable.
First of all, let's figure out where to start gluing wallpaper. Until now, many are sure that only from the window. This has its own reason, which was relevant in the era of paper wallpaper, when they were glued "overlapped". Such joints were less noticeable precisely when moving away from the window.
Modern wallpapers, for the most part, are glued end-to-end. However, the window continues to be one of the main reference points for starting. The fact is that during construction, it is windows and doors that are most carefully aligned vertically. And for high-quality work, we need an exact vertical so that there are no distortions with subsequent stripes. That is, both the window and the doorway can serve as a starting point for work.
It also does not matter in which direction - clockwise or counterclockwise - you will glue the wallpaper, it is advisable not to change direction during the work.
Now directly about the algorithm of work. Before starting work, coat the corner with glue, because it is there that the wallpaper most often peels off. If necessary, use a brush instead of a roller.
You can not glue the whole canvas into the corner. The strip will have to be cut in such a way that the edge extends 2-3 cm onto the next wall, otherwise there will be distortions and folds that will interfere with the smooth joining of the subsequent canvas.
Even if the corner is perfectly straight, it is difficult to paste over it with a single piece of wallpaper. Most modern wallpaper shrinks when the glue dries, and then a piece of the corner strip will lag behind the corner. It is pointless to press the wallpaper very carefully in the corner, especially since pressing can lead to a break in the strip that is still wet from the glue.
The next canvas must be glued close to the corner, overlapping with the previous one. In the corner, this edge will not be noticeable, unlike the wall.
Measure the corners with a level or plumb line. If the corners are very crooked, you will have to use the "cutting" method. Also come in the case of thick wallpaper.
This technique allows you to get a very precisely fitted wallpaper joint. This is the cutting algorithm. The canvas is glued into a corner, but the edge is left wider - 8-10 cm. The next piece of wallpaper is glued strictly vertically (using a plumb line), and in such a way that the overlap along the entire length is at least 5-6 cm wide.
Then, when the wallpaper is slightly dry, with a sharp wallpaper knife, the overlap is cut approximately in the center. You need to cut both lanes - both left and right. For a strictly vertical cut, a plumb line or a metal ruler is again used. After that, the top layer is carefully peeled off at the cut site, both cut strips are removed, and the top layer is glued back. All. The perfect junction of the left and right strips is ready.
Important! The main principle: no matter how wide the wallpaper roll is, and no matter how even the corner is, the wallpaper in the corner still needs to be trimmed.
The edge of the outer corner should be free of chips and bumps, so it must first be puttied. If the corner is even, the canvas wraps well behind it. After checking the verticality, the remaining strips are glued.
When dry, the wallpaper is well fitted to the outer corner. Sometimes it is necessary to make transverse cuts so that the canvas fits perfectly. If the canvas lay incorrectly, you need to draw a strictly vertical line and cut off the excess with a wallpaper knife. It's always best to use a metal ruler, as it's harder than plastic and won't move.
Premises with perfectly even corners practically do not exist. Compliance with the above technology will allow you to competently "bypass" the internal and external corners. In this way, you can effortlessly wallpaper slopes, outer corners of windows and niches in rooms.
Wall decoration with wallpaper is the most popular option for decorating walls in rooms. Undoubtedly, wallpapering on even walls is quite elementary and requires only a little skill, but wallpapering the corners of a room is technically more difficult. Before sticking wallpaper with your own hands, you need to properly prepare the walls.
First you need to clean off old wallpaper or paint, apply primer to the walls and level their surface. And only then begin to paste over the corners with wallpaper.
So, repair specialists distinguish the following stages of this process:
Glue must be applied to the strip of wallpaper and the corner of the wall. Next, you need to attach the wallpaper to the corner of the wall as follows - if the pasting process starts from left to right, then the left side is applied to the inside of the corner to evenly cover it.
At this stage, you need to clearly understand that you need to wallpaper the outer and inner corners in different ways.
External corners can be glued in two ways: firstly, if the outer corner has a flat surface, you can not waste time on leveling it and immediately apply wallpaper to the corner, then use the level and measure the edge of the strip so that the remaining strips lie evenly; secondly, to glue the outer corners, you first need to lead the strip around the corner by 4-5 cm, and glue the next part of the wallpaper at the top. Using a clerical knife and a ruler, cut these layers vertically.
Internal corners require more attention. Wallpaper must be glued so that they go onto the adjacent surface by about 3 cm, but not more, otherwise they will go wrinkled. The fold and turn of the wallpaper must be coated with glue. Next, you need to measure the width of the wallpaper located on the adjacent wall, mark the allowance of the glued side, which is glued at a distance of about 2 cm from the corner and a vertical line is drawn through it with a plumb line - this will mark the edge of the glued wallpaper.
Alignment of the wallpaper is done by rolling, for this there are special rollers and spatulas.
All the above stages of wallpaper stickers in the corners go sequentially.
Plastic wallpaper corners are a good finish for finishing corners - they have protective functions and give the corner a finished look.
Construction markets offer different decorative corners:
For arched outer corners, it is better to use corners with the following approximate dimensions: 5 × 17.7 × 17.10 × 20 and 15 × 25 mm. Plastic corners are recommended to be mounted with silicone sealant, it is colorless and has good adhesion. The length of the corners varies from 3 to 7 m, so it can be adjusted to individual sizes.
Plastic decorative corners help protect wallpaper from mechanical damage at the corners of the wall, in addition, they are not expensive and easy to install.
Non-woven wallpaper is particularly durable, but working with them is quite difficult, especially on corner surfaces, because. they are not elastic.
To paste over the corner of the wall with such wallpaper, when cutting off part of the wallpaper, it is necessary to make an allowance of 1.5 cm, this allowance must overlap.
You need to know a little secret - gluing non-woven wallpaper will be easier if you make equal cuts along their entire length along their edge.
Glue in this case is applied only to the wall, and the wallpaper must remain dry. In the work on decorating the corner with such wallpaper, it is better to first use the corner, then unnecessary crooked places will not appear. If the choice is made in favor of wallpaper with a pattern, in this case it is necessary to qualitatively adjust the pattern in the corners. In order to keep the pattern in the corners intact, you need to cut the next strip from the corner to fit the pattern of the already pasted wall.
Here are some tips:
Meter wallpaper is a wide non-woven fabric a little over a meter. This type of wallpaper helps to quickly paste over a large apartment and the selection of a pattern becomes easier. In order to stick meter-long wallpaper in the corners, you need to overlap up to 3 cm on the next wall. The rest of the procedure will not differ from the standard pasting of corners, which is described above.
Then proceed according to the following plan:
So, knowing the technology of gluing wallpaper in the corners, you can make high-quality repairs with your own hands and, in addition, help your relatives in this difficult task.
When repairing an apartment with your own hands, wall decoration with wallpaper is the simplest type of work. Minor difficulties arise only when pasting hard-to-reach places: battery, window, door and corner. But if you know simple tricks, then here everything can be done quickly and with high quality. At the same time, the greatest number of secrets lies in the technology of pasting the corner. After all, it can be external and internal - hence the different solutions. To help beginner finishers in this article, we will analyze in detail how to properly glue wallpaper in the corners.
For wallpapering in the corners, you will additionally need the following materials and tools (the main materials and tools for decorating walls with trellises are listed in the work ""):
When wallpapering corners, it is difficult to ensure that they fit snugly against adjacent walls without creases, air pockets and excessive tension. The joints of adjacent walls are to blame for this. They are either uneven, zigzag if the walls were plastered, or littered if the house is panel.
Therefore, an important task is to align the corners before starting work on decorating the room with wallpaper. Professional builders have several methods for this. The most common are listed below.
Method number 1. To one of the walls is strictly vertical, control is carried out by a plumb line, a rule is closely applied, and even better - a metal profile. Thus, the most protruding point of the surface of the adjacent wall is found.
An angled spatula is applied closely to the point, and a profile is applied to the spatula. Again, with the help of a plumb line, the profile is brought to a strictly vertical position, after which 3-4 marks are made on the wall for mounting the dowels. Holes for them are drilled with a perforator, after which a profile is attached to the wall with self-tapping screws.
The corner is wetted with water, after which gypsum putty is applied to it. With an angled spatula, pressing against the profile, a perfectly even angle is formed. Excess plaster is removed, the procedure is repeated at the next corner.
After the putty dries, it is processed with zero sandpaper.
Method #2. For this method, you will need a countershultz (plaster corner), which is a metal or plastic corner with a mesh attached to the edges.
It is installed in a corner strictly vertically (a plumb line or a laser level will help) and is attached to the wall with putty applied over the grid. After complete drying, the putty layer is polished with a special mesh or sandpaper.
The above methods of aligning the corners allow you to solve any violations of the geometry of the joints of adjacent walls.
When working with wallpaper, novice finishers will definitely meet with pasting of internal corners and, possibly, external ones. The methods of pasting them are different, regardless of whether paper, vinyl or non-woven type of trellis is used.
Attention: in this section we are talking about plain wallpaper that does not require color matching. How to stick wallpaper in the corners of a room with a pattern will be discussed at the end of the work.
So, how to glue wallpaper in the corners?
In apartments of modern construction, there are practically no external corners that need to be pasted over. The exception is window slopes, but they are usually painted, not glued. If, nevertheless, you have to glue the outer corner, then below we will provide instructions on how to glue wallpaper in the corners of the room in this case.
The step-by-step algorithm of actions is as follows:
When pasting the inner corner, the last strip of wallpaper should capture the adjacent wall by 2-3 cm. To do this, it is sized in width - measured, and the excess part is cut off. After gluing it, a vertical line is drawn on the strip at a distance of 4-5 mm from the corner.
For this, a plumb line and a pencil are used. The next wallpaper sheet is overlapped, strictly along a vertical line. If the seam is barely visible, this completes the pasting of the corner. Otherwise, an incision is made that allows you to remove the parts of the wallpaper pasted on top of each other and form a butt seam.
Note that the use of wide, meter-long wallpapers reduces the number of seams, which speeds up the entire technological process, but greatly complicates work in the corners.
With a relatively small blockage of the wall, a deviation from the vertical of up to 2 cm, it is possible to dock wallpaper with a clear geometric pattern so that the seam can only be detected as a result of a careful study of the pasted wall.
We note right away that a shift in the pattern is possible, but very slight, and therefore hardly noticeable, if everything is done in accordance with the instructions.
For reference: wallpapers with different patterns do not need to be joined. They are glued according to a simplified scheme.
There is nothing complicated in the materials that answer the question of how to properly glue wallpaper in the corners of a room. You can easily do the work yourself.
Every master in any field of activity always has his own little secrets. Wallpapering corners is no exception. It also has its own secrets.
