Watching you over the past few months has given me the confidence to go back into the trade even if it is a part time small jobs. I've watched and gathered more knowledge and remembered tricks etc from when I was doing this full time so now I use your videos as a prompter a holly grail lol
I take on most jobs in my place - woodwork, plumbing, electrics etc... but the job I dislike the most is decorating, especially hanging paper! Ask me to move a rad and I'm eager to get stuck in but line and paint a room I dread!! Useful video tho, I think I'll try cutting with scissors rather than a blade, seems much safer.
Why i paste the wall not the paper even though it may be a paper that states otherwise, not had any problems expanding or shrinkage etc, most new papers are now paste the wall anyway i found
Agree with what you say but now I always use scissors. Have tried the other methods but always wind up tearing the paper. I find that scissors are much slower but less risky.
First papering job ever...came to the same conclusion, good scissors; slow but reliable. A taping knife and a sharp blade seems to work effortlessly BUT I have seen experienced people drag and tear the paper probably due to the snags pointed out on this vid (irregular surface does not support the soaked/soggy paper).
Olfa Corporation is a Japanese manufacturer of utility knives, founded in 1956 in Osaka, Japan. The name is derived from the Japanese words oru and ha. The company is known for inventing the snap-off blade and the rotary cutter. Have not used this make but will check them out.
olfa 18mm & 9mm are the biz, only prob with 9mm is that they can snap far too easy especially if you have a new blade on & have it too far pretruding when cutting , nearly took my eye a few times!!! but they are def sharoest tool in the box 👌
Thanks we usually use the spachler only for cutting tops of paper, when there is no ceiling line to cut to. Use a spirit level to make some small pencil marks... then spachler to line up and cut straight.
I much prefer to use a knife and a spatula but as you say with some wallpaper they will rip so scissors for the thinner paper is the best way , some of the wallpaper that is around now and if I'm honest isn't marvellous so how they expect joe public to hang it I will never know, like yourselves I've been at it gor many years and even now I have to take my time with some of it and when hanging thick lining paper I will sometimes use scissors to keep my hand in at using them and cutting nice and straight every time
@@PaintingandDecorating I thought I had a lot of paste and left it for 15 minutes then when I went to hang it, water was dripping off it. What does that mean
