Thursday, October 20, 2016

How to Apply Liquid Wallpaper for Interior Design?




You started a repair, or purchased just about to buy liquid wallpaper, and you are interested in how to apply them?We'll tell you how to apply liquid wallpaper: a tool is required, whether pre-prepare the walls should be as dry mix plant.So, on the implementation of the process you planned!

Tools Required

First of all, prepare a tool that you will need in the process of applying liquid wallpaper:
  • plastic spatula,
  • trowel for leveling solution,
  • Linen Squirtwoman (spray) to wet surfaces,
  • Basins and bucketsin which the solution will get involved,
  • Roller for soil
  • Spotlight or a powerful lamp.

Preparing walls

After all the necessary tools will be prepared, you need to make a pre-treatment of the walls.It takes place in two main phases:
  • Alignment walls, if there are bumps on them.For this will be enough ordinary plaster with fine sand and a starting putty.Putty you need only if you use a coarse plaster.
  • Priming and painting.Skilled craftsmen are advised to use a liquid wall facade primer, ie dirt paint for facade work.Under the liquid wall is sufficiently two layers of primer.

Please proceed to the alignment:

  1. removed from the walls of all the old materials:. Wallpaper, paint, primer, plaster, etc.
  2. also get rid from all protruding from the wall of objects: nails, screws, screws, pieces of rebar protruding.
  3. close up all exposed plastic parts and pipes.
  4. Lata (fill plaster) small holes, pits, depressions.Aligns projections higher than two millimeters.
  5. are sealed with plaster all joints and seams on the walls, as well as cracks and crevices.
  6. is a thin layer of plaster over the entire surface of the walls, completely leveling it.

Then proceed to priming and painting:

  1. Apply the first coat of paint, primer and wait until its complete drying.
  2. Gruntuem surface of the walls for the second time and again leave the primer to dry.If the primer using a cheap paint is not too high quality, the gruntuem wall in three or four layers.
  3. usual paint the walls vodoemulsionkoy, which must be white.The white color of the walls - a mandatory condition of their preparation for the application of liquid wallpaper.
Once the walls are ready, you can begin to prepare themselves liquid wallpaper.

Preparation solution

Preparation of liquid wallpaper for drawing on walls - it is kneading solution.Dry mixture of liquid wallpaper is sold in two forms: ready, which should only be diluted with water, and professional, which requires the addition of caramel, decorative components and water.
In preparing liquid wallpaper dry mortar is mixed with water and allowed to swell for a while.Knead the solution should be strictly in accordance with the instructions, observing the dosage and the technology.Yet there are a few universal recommendations that will facilitate you the process of mixing.
  1. Dilute wallpaper warm water.
  2. solution Knead by hand.
  3. knead the first time only one packet.
  4. Knead solution of one whole package, not dividing it into pieces!Only then can all the components of the mixture is uniformly mixed.

Application Procedure

When the wallpaper will be ready for application, practice, ie tamp hand on a small section of the wall, which then will not be too noticeable (under the window, behind furniture).Relate the selected area to apply the wallpaper to the volume zameshennogo solution and start the process.
  1. plastic spatula, apply the solution to the selected section of the wall.Apply the solution in small portions, as a normal filler.If the mixture sticks to the wall is bad, then add a little water in it.
  2. Using a trowel smooth out the applied mixture, spreading it is not a very thin layer, to achieve a glow effect.
  3. With the spotlight or flashlight, illuminate the side of the wall to see and correct the shortcomings: nodules and divorces.
  4. Click the adjacent section of the wall and repeat the whole process, starting with the trowel mortar.
  5. Border treated area sprinkled with water to the transitions were not visible.
  6. Apply a liquid wall across the width of the wall from corner to corner, gradually moving from top to bottom.
  7. At the end of the wall of water and sprinkle lightly smooth out the wallpaper spatula.
  8. Wait for the complete drying of liquidwallpaper, which would require about a day.

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