Wallpapering
Techniques
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Walls should be clean, dry and sound. You
can paper directly over painted surfaces, as long as you have washed them
thoroughly with sugar soap.
Remove peeling or damaged
wallpaper
Stripping wallpaper is a messy job, so take up carpets or
cover them with dust sheets. Take all the furniture out of the room or group it
together in the middle of the floor and protect it with more dust
sheets.
Use warm soapy water (or water
with paper stripper) to soften old absorbent wallcoverings, then use a wide
stripping knife to scrape the paper off the wall. A steam-generating wallpaper
stripper makes the job even easier.
You can peel vinyl wallcoverings
off the wall, leaving the backing paper behind. If it is sound, just paper over
the backing, or strip it like ordinary wallpaper.
Repair damaged
plaster
Repair damaged plaster with a fine surface filler. Rake loose
material from deep cracks and holes, then pack filler into all the crevices,
using a flexible filler knife.
When the filler is dry, sand
it smooth with medium-grade abrasive paper. Size newly plastered walls with a
'proprietary size' or diluted wallpaper paste to make sure paper will
adhere.
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