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Tools For Hanging Wallcoverings
A surprisingly large number of tools are needed for hanging wallcoverings. A steel rule, square, straight-edge, pencil and a pair of scissors are needed to measure each length, mark it and cut it before hanging. For pasting wallcoverings, a plastic bucket in which paste can be mixed, a pasting brush to apply the paste to the back of the wallcovering and a table to lay the paper on while it is pasted are all necessary. Fold-up pasting tables can be bought quite cheaply and are worth buying if you do a reasonable amount of paperhanging. Alternatively, a flush door with its handles removed and laid on a stout table or two trestles will do. Have a cloth or sponge handy to wipe the table clean of paste and tie strings across the bucket to rest the brush on.
When preparing a ready-pasted wallcovering, the bucket, pasting brush and table can be dispensed with. All that is needed is a cardboard soaking tray, usually given away free by the shop where the ready-pasted wallcovering was bought, in which the rolled-up lengths of wallcovering can be immersed. However, a pasting table will still come in useful for laying out and marking up the lengths of wallcovering.
A plumb line is essential for hanging wallcoverings vertically. It can be either bought or improvised using a small Mat weight and a length of line cord. The other essential for hanging most wallcoverings is a paper-hanging brush, which has soft flexible bristles and is used to smooth the wallcovering into place on the wall, butt it into angles and smooth out any bubbles. For vinyls, washable wallpapers and foamed polyethylene wallcoverings, a sponge can be used instead of a paper-hanging brush, since wetting or getting paste on the surface is not so important. Have a clean cloth or sponge handy to remove any paste that does get on the face of the wallcovering, however. Scissors are needed for cutting each length exactly to size once it is hung: long-bladed ones make for more accurate cutting than short ones. Have a sharp knife or a small pair of scissors handy too, for trimming round obstacles such as light switches and pipes. A useful extra to have is a boxwood seam roller, which helps to ensure that seams are well stuck down. It should not, however, be used on wallcoverings with hollow reliefs or on papers with heavy embossing, since the action of the roller will tend to flatten the relief or emboss.
Access equipment is also needed at the very least a platform step-ladder, and ideally a scaffold board and hop-up or other support, so You Can construct a longer working platform. This is vital when papering ceilings.
Paste
Paste is used to stick the wallcovering to the wall. There are several kinds, and it is important to choose the correct type for the wallcovering being hung. Any paste will do for hanging ordinary wallpaper; most are powders for mixing with cold water, although a few hot-water starch pastes and ready-mixed pastes are available. For hanging heavier wallpapers, including relief wallcoverings, the paste can either be mixed to a thicker consistency or a heavier-duty paste can be used. For washable wallpapers, paper-backed vinyls, metallised foils, vinyl relief wallcoverings and foamed polyethylene wallcoverings, a paste containing a fungicide must be used. Since the face of the wallcovering is impervious to water, the paste will take a long time to dry out and without a fungicide mould might grow behind the wallcovering. You must wash your hands after using fungicidal pastes, and they must be kept away from children and pets. Lastly, for hanging speciality wallcoverings, most manufacturers recommend a ready-mixed paste.
Paste packets generally give details about how much water to add to make up a mix, but do not always specify how many rolls the mix will cover. As a rough guide, allow between 0.5 and 0.7 litres of paste for each roll of wallcovering, more if it is heavily embossed or if it carries a deep relief, since paste will collect in the hollows.
Size is a paste-like product used for scaling the surface of previously undecorated plaster prior to paperhanging. It is available from most decorating shops, but a diluted solution of wallpaper paste can often be used instead.
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