How to choose non-woven wallpaper for painting
There are non-woven smooth wallpaper for painting, structural wallpaper.
Exclusive non-woven lanita wallpaper for painting has a relief structure, in their production professionals use the most modern technologies plus high-quality raw materials.
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The main characteristics of the wallpaper
Fishelin wallpapers are a good solution for interior design:
- With their help, you can successfully decorate both walls and ceilings.(cm.How to glue the wallpaper on the ceiling yourself) This type of finishing work is good because wallpaper can be repainted over time.
- Non-woven base for strength and durability, the walls after gluing look stylish and beautiful.
- This type of decor quite rightly gained credibility in the construction market.
- People are increasingly buying and decorating housing non-woven wallpaper. This is due to a set of positive characteristics of the product. They cannot be called ideal either.
Before buying, you should still weigh the pros and cons
Advantages and disadvantages of the material.
| Positive characteristics | disadvantages |
| Paint is easily applied to the surface of the wallpaper, you can handle the painting process with your own hands. | The structural upper layer of non-woven wallpaper can be damaged as a result of mechanical stress. This should be remembered if the family has children, cats or dogs. |
| Wide stripes of wallpaper allow you to quickly glue the walls. | Relief, convex patterns on the surface tend to accumulate dust |
| The dense texture of the base hides the imperfections of the walls well. | Extra actions: it is not enough just to paste the wallpaper, you still need to paint |
| Wallpapering technology involves applying a layer of glue only on the wall, so the canvas does not soak and does not tear. | Quality non-woven wallpapers are not cheap. The price on the market is varied. It should be noted that buying cheap goods from unknown manufacturers can cross out all the positive characteristics described in the previous column. |
| Hypoallergenic, wallpapers are safe for people prone to asthma. | |
| In wallpaper care, all means are good. Wash them safely (seeHow to wash washable wallpaper: do it right), wipe with a rag, even clean up the past with a vacuum cleaner. | |
| Durable, burn-resistant surface. | |
| Wallpaper can be repainted 6-7 times, damaged areas are also easily restored. | |
| If you decide to glue the wallpaper, you will not have the trouble to clean them from the walls and glue new ones. |
Expendable materials
In order to glue the non-woven wallpaper for painting quickly and efficiently, you should stock up on all necessary supplies in advance.
The set requires a standard, as for pasting ordinary paper wallpaper.
Need to stock up:
- Wallpaper.
- Adhesive composition.
- Tools for applying glue to the surface of walls, ceilings.
- Tools for working with wallpaper: knife, wallpaper staple.
- A table, a stepladder or special devices on which you can climb and get any corner of the room to be glued.
Flizilin Properties to Consider
This material has a transparent structure:
- If you chose a non-thin product or applied a thin layer of paint to the wall, the wallpaper will shine through all the flaws of the surfaces of the room walls.
- Having glued the tapestries on the walls, where only the joining lines of building materials are processed with putty, you will be disappointed with the result. These joints will be revealed in the future.
- Before starting work, check whether the wallpaper reveals the imperfections of the wall.
If so, then there are several options: cover the entire wall with putty, choose a denser wallpaper or apply several layers of paint on the wallpaper.
Wallpapering for painting
Non-woven wallpaper is smooth for painting.
A simple person who is not a specialist in construction, with his own hands can cope with this task.
The instruction is quite simple:
- The first step is to prepare the walls, the ceiling of the room for pasting. To do this, remove the old wall covering. Wallpaper will look better on putty-aligned walls.
- Collect all the necessary supplies in the room where the repair is planned.
- Mark, then cut the whole wallpaper on the canvas of the desired length.
- Generously coat the walls and ceiling with special wallpaper glue. It has a thicker structure than glue for ordinary wallpapers. No glue is applied to the paper.
- Glue the measured cloths on the wall, while leveling the surface with a plastic wallpaper spatula, removing all the bubbles.
- Check the quality of gluing; excess paper must be cut off.
- Repeat the procedure around the perimeter of the room.
Note. Smooth non-woven wallpaper for painting should be glued joint to joint. But, not all walls can have a flat, identical surface. In this case, the strips are glued with an overlap.
- After the wallpaper fell on the wall as it should, you should cut off the excess material so that the result would be a smooth joint with no overlap.
There should be no drafts in the room, all windows should be closed while the wallpaper is drying.
How to paint non-woven wallpaper
Stages of work.
Several types of paints are used for staining:
- It can be a water-based paint, acrylic or latex paint.
- Aqueous emulsion paint is the cheapest, but the quality is poor.
- Colors are dull, afraid of water. The safest is latex paint.
- Its composition allows the walls to dry in five hours. It is well applied to the surface of the wallpaper, after drying it does not lose its brightness, is not enlightened, which means that after painting all the imperfections of the wall are not visible.
- Acrylic paint is more suitable for painting rooms with high humidity.
- It creates a protective film on the surface of the wallpaper, so such surfaces do not let water through, they can be washed.
Note. You can repaint non-woven wallpaper up to six times. You can apply paint to the wallpaper using a roller
Non-woven wallpaper how to paint, some tips
The most good result is obtained when the surface is smooth and does not illuminate through the wallpaper.
Paint the coating only after the glue has completely dried:
- To apply a helmet to the wallpaper, the roller is dipped in a tray with paint, squeezed a little and paint is applied to the surface of the walls.
- The best way to paint embossed wallpapers will be with a long-nap roller or foam rubber.
- The system by which to apply paint to the wallpaper, choose yourself.
- Bottom up or top to bottom is not critical.
- Paint the wallpaper in the corners or at the joints between the ceiling and the walls is better with a brush.
- If a plinth is installed on the walls, even before painting, it must be sealed with construction tape.
- It will turn out more accurately.
- It is not possible to paint over the entire surface perfectly the first time. Poorly stained areas need to be processed again until you get the desired result and beautiful walls.
- Bright, colorful and stylish photos of non-woven wallpapers will certainly attract attention.
- Naturally, there is a desire to use them in the repair. It is not difficult to work with non-woven wallpaper.
Having spent only on the purchase of consumables, all the work can be done independently.For more detailed information, we recommend watching the video in this article.
