How to glue wallpaper to the ceiling itself

Glue wallpaper on the ceiling accounted for units. It should be noted that recently this occupation has become increasingly popular, so many are interested in how to glue wallpaper on the ceiling. Today, wallpaper, pasted on the ceiling, can be a real decoration of the home.

Preparatory work

When wallpapering the ceiling it is not necessary to rip off the old finishing materials to the ground. For example, the paint can be left in the same place. You can also not wash the whitewash, but if it falls off in pieces, then you need to remove the whitewash and putty in two passes. If the ceiling has been previously covered with wallpaper, they need to be removed.

Before the main work it is necessary to evaluate the evenness of the ceiling surface. With the help of an ordinary plumb you need to measure the distances in the places between the upper corners of the room and the floor surface. If it turns out that there is a significant slope, besides the ceiling is uneven and hilly, it will be necessary to work with putty and it is possible to use plasterboard sheets. It all depends on the planned financial costs.

If the surface is flat or the work has been done on leveling the ceiling, something else needs to be done before pasting the wallpaper. Additional work consists in treating the ceiling with an acrylic primer, which is applied to the surface with an ordinary brush. Externally, this tool is similar to milk, dries quickly, it does not contain solvents. On the ceiling of 50 m? enough vessels in the volume of 5 liters.

Note! Primer ceiling is not mandatory, but a desirable event. It is known that on a primed surface wallpaper is held tighter and dries much faster.

Recommendations for pasting потолка обоями

There are some rules, subject to which the wallpapering of the ceiling with wallpaper is made with high quality.

• You do not need to apply glue to imported wallpapers - their missed cloths are simply glued to the ceiling. When bubbles form, a rubber roller is used to smooth the material, which need to be moved from the center of the ceiling to its edges.
• The characteristics of the wallpaper of domestic production differ from the properties of imported material. According to the rules, they should be impregnated with an adhesive and should not be kept for more than 10 minutes before pasting. Otherwise, the wallpaper may tear when gluing, and the material will be damaged.
• When preparing wallpaper for pasting you need a good glue. Wallpaper glue designed specifically for this purpose, or a mixture of "Moment-Extra" from the company "Henkel" will be suitable for this purpose.
• Remove old ceiling wallpaper is not difficult. It is necessary to spray the wallpaper with water from a spray bottle, take it over the edge of the material, pull it, and the wallpaper will move away from the surface. This should contribute to the previously properly selected glue. If the wallpaper was glued with an unsuitable adhesive, the wallpaper removal process can take a long time. In this case, use a small spatula, hook the edge of the fragment to be removed and remove the wallpaper in small sections.
• If trouble happened, and a stain formed on the ceiling, the wallpaper can be re-painted. If there is a roll of wallpaper in the stock left from the previous repair, you can re-stick a few canvases. It will be much easier to do this if the ceiling wallpaper is easily removed from the surface.

Works on pasting wallpaper on the ceiling with their own hands can withstand the same process as when processing walls. First, they need to be properly cut:

• a roll of wallpaper is taken and laid in such a way that the face of the sheet is looking at the floor;
• then the material is unwound for a certain distance;
• the necessary length of a sheet is measured by a tape measure and a note is made with a pencil or pen;
• the wallpaper sheet is folded at face level with the mark up;
• the fold is well ironed by the hand and cut with any sharp object.

Applying glue to wallpaper

Glue on the wallpaper is applied with a certain accuracy.

• A wide brush is taken and the wallpaper sheet is spread with glue quite thickly. First, the application takes place in the middle of the strip, after which the composition is drawn over exactly the whole area. A layer of adhesive should always be thin and uniform, as the excess can then crawl out from the sides with a sticker and ruin the wallpaper already pasted.
• Then the missed sheet folds very carefully. Usually take one end of the cut sheet and fold it making folds of 30 cm in size, while the sides with the applied glue should not be in contact with each other. As a result, the folded parts of the wallpaper sheet form a so-called accordion, which ends in the same 30-cm piece. The process of pasting begins with it and the material is gradually stretched.
• The wallpaper strip is left for a short time in a calm state for better impregnation. Usually, several fabrics are impregnated with glue at once, but it is not necessary to delay it over time, because the material of the wallpaper may tear due to excessive softness.

Glueing wallpaper on the ceiling

Having smeared the canvas with glue, and having made an accordion out of it, you can proceed to pasting the ceiling. This design is easy to hold in your hand and nothing should interfere with the workflow. Instructions on how to properly glue the ceiling wallpaper, read below:

1. Before you start covering the ceiling with wallpaper, you need to make sure that the scissors, the rubber roller and the brush are in an accessible proximity, and not somewhere in the other end of the room. All these tools should always be on hand for normal work on gluing the fabric to the ceiling, smoothing and trimming them.
2. Since the wallpaper softened with glue is easily torn, you need to handle them as carefully as possible. To make it easier to unfold an accordion, you can use the appropriate tool for this business. This can be a broom wrapped in polyethylene, a roller made of cardboard or something else.
3. One hand should hold an accordion-rolled wallpaper and a roller, the other should gently fit the upper part of the band to the surface. At imposing it is necessary to be guided by the line drawn previously. After that, a part of the canvas is carefully pressed and smoothed out with the help of a brush, oriented from the middle to the sides.
4. Then the accordion gradually unfolds from the fold to the fold, some parts are glued alternately, carefully pressed and straightened with a brush. When pasting the edge of the canvas must coincide with the traced line. On this depends the correct sticking of the remaining strips of wallpaper.
5. It is necessary to get working clothes with the necessary number of pockets in which it would be possible to place scissors and the rubber roller - it will facilitate working process. Since the strip with the applied glue is not as elastic as without it, the bottom of the harmonica must be constantly maintained. Best of all, of course, stick wallpaper on the ceiling together. The folds of the structure should be straightened gradually from the middle to the sides. In addition, you need to get rid of wrinkles and bubbles.

Note! It is more convenient to hold the harmonica wallpaper in the working hand, and the other to straighten them. So it will be easier to work when moving.

• The edge of the strip should coincide with the control line, after which you can smooth the wallpaper by pressing the brush. The second element of the wallpaper is applied to the edge of the initial canvas and the procedure is repeated. The edges should fit exactly, and the seams should look clean.
• When approaching the canvas to the corner, the wallpaper strip is pressed with scissors to the corner formed by the wall and ceiling, a flat line is squeezed out. Then the plot is removed, the ceiling wallpaper is cut along the intended line with scissors and finally glued.
• In the place of installation of the chandelier in the wallpaper, notches are made that will not affect the quality of the ceiling. The light cap will cover the inevitable blemishes in the canvas.

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To glue the ceiling wallpaper alone was more convenient, you can use special tools: