Howdy Colgan. Your a gentleman and a scholar of wallpaper and tips. I would be lost from Time to time without your wisdom and paper hanging mastery I too was tought by mum who was taught by her mum who was taught by her mum and I can only wonder how far back this tradition/ passed skill weaves its existence through my blood lines. Thanks again. You Da Man!
Thank you so much my friend! What a nice thing to hear from somebody who is probably across the lake, I take it? The word mum is usually some of my friends from the UK
I've hung wall covering off and on for 16yrs and like you I was taught by my mother. Mostly schools and banks, easy stuff. I'm currently doing a dialysis center using wolf gordon vinyl with an intricate pattern. I want to thank you for your knowledge and confidence. It's helped me greatly. 🙏🙏👊🏽👊🏽 Keep up the great work!
Lovely. I have a recurring problem here in the UK where the old buildings have no true corners. I cut my first drop as you describe, then have to use scissors for the second drop. Some patterns are a nightmare! I have one client who buys exactly sufficient paper to cover the walls and I always have to splice the last drop or two as the repeats leave me short of paper. Some corners end up looking ridiculous, but she loves the finished product. I took your advice and always explain my decisions if I have to cut a corner or two, before I do it. All the best.
Hey Spencer, another great tip. Also thank for your advice a few weeks back on wallpaper shrinkage, i used the paint and sponge technique and worked a treat. Thanks again.
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Nope, as long as you: 1. Thoroughly clean the glue off the edge on which you’re finishing; if you leave this, it may raise the butting edge when you install up against it when you resume. 2. You must leave the edge up and not glued down so that you’re not ripping offf the wall or primer underneath when you do your double cut when you resume the work the next day or days later. Hope this helps!!
Hi Spencer. I am redoing my bathroom and am wondering how to go about wallpapering behind the toilet. Is there an easy way to do this or is it just a fight with the tank and the water lines? Thank you and love your video's.
Hi Spencer, thank you for such a detailed explanation of how to approach corners. Just curious, but would this same technique of leaving an eighth of an inch overlap to the adjacent walls apply to a feature wall done with wallpaper?
1. If you mean that all of the walls get wallpaper, but three of them get Green and one of them gets brown, do you do the same thing with the brown underneath the green wallpaper, the answer is yes. 2. However, if you mean, just one wall getting Wallpaper when you come to the corner, no, you do not overlap it onto the next wall you cut it as close into that corner as possible.
@@spencercolgan Thank you for allowing me to clarify. I mean situation 2. To summarize I've skim coated what's going to be a feature wall and it is now flat--the adjacent walls and ceiling are textured (knockdown)...okay so I just cut as close to the corners (left wall, right wall and ceiling) as possible? My only concern is that there will be a very noticeable gap in some areas due to imperfect corners. There are really two "fixes" I can think of: a) Add trim all around (you're probably not fond of this approach) or b) color match the wallpaper and paint the accent wall ahead of applying the wallpaper. Apologies for the long response--you've been a great help already. Thank you sir.
The only other method I know of, is to tear the under lap 12mm past the corner to 'soften / blunt' the under lap edge when laying the overlap - this softens the transition from one paper edge to the other. In the UK we used to call this method 'lap and splice' - the example shown here, is close to perfect.
Tell me. Why do I need a level line when I have wallpaper that has no pattern that needs to be double cut? Do you see a need to waste time making solid colour wallpaper plumb?
Have you done any video which shows us how to remedy a badly wallpapered corner? I have a corner which is all wrinkled that I'd like to repair or at least improve the look of. Its a blown vinyl type of paper so no problem with pattern matching I'd just like to get it to lie flat.
My strategy: Cut straight line down on ea side of corner. Remove corner. Put roman high tack glue in corner. Splice in new corner 2-3” beyond cut line and splice new line on both sides preferably using a laser line as your cut guide.
My house is 150 years old and the walls are out at least 1 1/2 inches top to bottom. My paper has a small almost basket weave print to it. Any suggestions for hanging a corner for this. The match is more vertical so I will have to keep that plumb line going I would think. Last time I had to cut into every corner 🤦🏽♀️. Any ideas for this
I don’t think it was perfectly straight but, when I make the next cut, are use a perfectly straight plumbline and the straightens out my wallpaper. Remember, there is no pattern on this thing it doesn’t matter if you’re a little off as long as your cats are perfect
@@spencercolgan and no overlaps. I wasnt criticizing just curious as such. Obviously in.America things get.done a little different. Im from.the UK 30 years in the business so.its always interesting to.see how.others work as such. We learn something new every day pal. 👍🏻👍🏻
@@spencercolgan sorry for really late reply. Ok, so if there's no pattern to fallow, it doesn't matter if the next wall isn't straight? You wouldn't notice? Thanks
If I did that, I would never put up the second or third sheet because if you are a paper hanger, you know that those bubbles continue to appear throughout the job… It is the best way to do it for me my friend. Trust me, I really do know what I’m doing
@@spencercolgan People have there own way of doing things dont they Spencer.i try explaining to people who are new to paper hanging to go with what ever they feel comfortable with.i say give it a go and if in doubt then spend the money on the professional s.customers appreciate the guidance to give it a go but 9 times out of 10 just dont have enough patience for wallpapering and cant afford to waste materials
