Vinyl wallpaper – modern material for renovation and decoration of premises. Such wallpaper consists of a paper or non-woven base covered with a thin vinyl film. These days, this type of wallpaper has become widespread due to its large number of positive properties:
- Highest strength. A special PVC coating has a unique ability to withstand all mechanical damage and harmful external influences.
- Elasticity. This is one of their main distinctive features. Traditional paper options tend to tear with any careless movement during the gluing process. Vinyl wallpaper does not have this drawback. They don't tear and stretch well.
- Reasonable prices. IN construction stores Today you can find a wide selection of inexpensive, but very high-quality wallpapers.
The disadvantages of wallpaper include the following:
- The difficulty of pasting - the ability of wet wallpaper to stretch can play a cruel joke: after it dries, gaps will appear between adjacent strips.
- PVC coating of the wallpaper surface improves its moisture resistance, but does not allow the walls to “breathe”.
- Vinyl does not like sudden changes in humidity and temperature in the room - the wallpaper can become deformed.
If you are not sure that you can glue vinyl wallpaper yourself, it is better to seek the help of professionals. This material is quite capricious and not very easy to work with.
However, if you already have some experience and useful skills in wallpapering, you can handle this task yourself. We’ll tell you in more detail how to do this correctly.
How to glue them correctly
In order for the process of finishing a room to be successful and efficient, it is necessary to strictly follow all technological subtleties and rules.
First of all, remember that such wallpaper can only be glued onto a dry and perfectly smooth surface. Therefore, before embarking on this important task, it is necessary to treat the walls in a special way. You need to get rid of all old coatings (traces of paint, plaster, old wallpaper). Then you need to fill the cracks and level the surface of the walls.
Only after all the necessary preparations have been made can you start gluing the wallpaper. They must be cut into strips of the required length (remember to leave an allowance of about ten centimeters). Do not forget that adjacent stripes should match each other as much as possible in the pattern.
It is recommended to glue vinyl wallpaper end-to-end. But keep in mind that this building material has the ability to “shrink” under the influence of glue - after drying, noticeable gaps may appear between the strips. Therefore, do not apply too much glue and do not stretch the wallpaper wide when gluing. Carefully apply the strips to the wall and smooth with a spatula. It is better to treat the seams especially carefully with a roller or small brush.
When starting to wallpaper, make sure that there are no drafts in the room. Do not open windows or doors or turn on air conditioners. Special glue is required for vinyl wallpaper. Dilute the adhesive according to the instructions. Usually, after diluting, the glue should stand for another 5-10 minutes.
It is almost impossible to hang high-quality wallpaper alone. Do this together (one person, standing on a stepladder, applies the wallpaper to the top of the wall, and the other carefully holds and smoothes the strip).
Video lesson
If you want to hang vinyl wallpaper, but doubt your abilities, a theoretical explanation alone will not be enough. To study the wallpapering process in detail and detail, we advise you to watch special videos.
In some cases, it is necessary to be able to resize an existing image. Depending on the application in which such a picture is supposed to be used, the methods for resizing it will change accordingly.
How to stretch a picture on your desktop
Quite often, when setting a desktop background, there is a discrepancy between the size of such a picture and the work area (there is a plain background around the edges of the picture).
It is also worth noting that it is virtually impossible to stretch a picture without losing quality. Initially, an image consists of a certain number of pixels (colored dots) per square inch. Accordingly, as the image size increases, these points also increase, which causes a visual deterioration in image quality.
To stretch the picture on your desktop, the easiest way is to use the built-in tools operating system. To do this, right-click the context menu from a free area of the desktop, select “Personalization”, and in the lower left part of the window that opens, click on the “Desktop Background” icon.
At the top of the window that appears, click the “Browse” button and select the picture that you want to set as your desktop background. To fill the entire area of the work area, select “Stretch” from the drop-down list at the bottom left of the screen.
How to stretch an image in Word
To do this, you need to place the mouse cursor on one of the corners of the image, hold down the left button and drag the mouse to enlarge the image.
How to stretch an image in Photoshop
This operation can be performed in several ways. The simplest is to select the entire image by pressing the Ctrl+T key combination, and then placing the mouse cursor on one of the corners of the image, stretch it with the mouse to the required size. After that. To commit the changes, you will need to press Enter.
How to stretch an image in HTML
To format a block with a background image, use the background-size operator. Depending on the version of the browser in which the front-end part of the site is used, this operator may also contain certain additional parameters.
The main syntax of this operator, which allows you to stretch an image in HTML, is background-size: cover
This statement in the page code array is used after determining the background image to use.
Thus, a procedure that allows you to increase the size of a picture significantly simpler actions undertaken to .
Very often, no matter how correctly the wallpapering work was done, problems and defects may arise, such as unevenly joined seams, bubbles or stains. Such problems can arise even if the work was performed by a professional. Such troubles can be avoided if you take into account some rules and know the peculiar tricks and subtleties that experts use.
Before wallpapering, you need to pay attention to the surface of the wall. Quite often situations arise when, at first glance, neatly and firmly pasted wallpaper has lumpy formations, pits and other roughness.
Such troubles often arise due to the fact that due attention was not paid to the surface of the wall. Therefore, before you start wallpapering the walls, the walls must be leveled and puttied, after which the already leveled wall should be treated with sandpaper and a primer solution made from wallpaper glue and water should be applied.
To prevent the wallpaper strips from lying crooked when gluing, you should use a plumb line (weight on a thread), otherwise such errors can only be corrected by re-gluing the wallpaper. To prevent the wallpaper joints from being so noticeable, the sticker should be done according to the rule for the location of the edges (the wallpaper joints should be directed against the light).
If the wallpaper comes off the wall, then most likely the reason is the damp surface of the wall, which, according to the rules, must be dry so that the wallpaper glue can be better absorbed. But a damp wall cannot perform such a function.
You can check whether the surface of your wall meets the dryness criterion using cellophane and tape (stick a piece of cellophane with tape on the wall). It is best to carry out the check in the evening, and look at the result in the morning - if there is moisture on the cellophane, it means that the wall is not yet ready for gluing and requires additional processing.
Besides special attention You should pay attention to the cleanliness of the wall, since a dirty wall can cause the wallpaper to peel off. The wall must be cleaned of paint, putty and other dirt, after which it must be thoroughly primed.
If you do not remove fungal growths from the surface of the wall before wallpapering, the new wallpaper may become moldy. To remove fungus, the wall must be cleaned, thoroughly sanded and treated with a special antibacterial solution.
The following factors can cause stains on the wall:
Increased alkaline reaction of walls - this is the property concrete walls in new buildings. If the wallpaper contains golden or silvery components, a reaction may occur, as a result of which unwanted spots appear. Therefore, before pasting walls with such wallpaper, you need to check the surface for the presence of an alkaline reaction; if such a reaction is present, then you need to select wallpaper that does not contain gold and silver particles.
If they are glued too much thin wallpaper, then the cause of the stains may be translucent traces from the grout of the sockets. In this case, it is necessary to tint the wall especially carefully.
Quite often, when hanging wallpaper, people encounter the appearance of bubbles. This occurs due to uneven distribution of the paste or other violations that were made when applying the glue. You can get rid of such a defect using a syringe with wallpaper glue. The bubble must be pierced, carefully insert glue under the wallpaper through a needle and smooth it out.
Well, now, I think you won’t have any problems with wallpapering. Even walls to you!
