Repair in the apartment is associated with a mass of inconvenience and takes a lot of time. What to do if you need to fix some little thing? For example, damage to the wallpaper, which extended, covered with spots, painted by children or simply began to disperse or bubble. Take a repair? It is not necessary to have a restoration of spoiled wallpaper.
Let's find out how to do it.
Tools and materials
To conduct cosmetic operations with wallpaper you will need:
Normal wallpaper glue and joints
PVA glue
paste
Pieces of wallpapers that were to be preserved after repair
Big scissors
Dry rag
medical syringe
Soft sponge
Brush and a hairdryer
How to put old wallpaper
Before lining old wallpaper, prepare glue. For this, several types are suitable: PVA glue, a hubber from starch or flour, as well as special junction glue.
If you have a light wallpaper, then PVA glue is better not to use - yellow stains may appear on the wallpaper.
So, you can start repairing: on old wallpaper, which dug, remove the edges, wipe their surface with a dry cloth, thus deleting dust and other contaminants. Uniform layer apply glue to the wallpapers themselves and on the wall, especially thoroughly wake edges. Closeister Apply a small sponge, plow glue - a small tassel or a medical syringe without a needle, and apply glue for junctions straight from the tube.
Wait a few minutes until the wallpaper is impregnated with glue, and then press them tightly to the wall. In order not for the folds and bubbles, lay the surface in the direction from the center with a soft brush or rubber roller. Excess glue, which seemed from behind the edge, immediately remove the dry cloth or sponge until they dried.
How to put the joints of the wallpaper
Sometimes wallpaper seams start to diverge. It is reasonable for this that the wall was slightly closed either during the shocking of the wallpaper opened the window and the glue did not have time to dry out.
Gently unscrew the seams and remove the remnants of the putty, the wall and the wallpaper of the spell, so that there are no tubercles on the wallpaper. Then apply glue on the wallpaper joints and pass through them with a rubber roller, remove the remnants of the adhesive with a dry cloth.
After the joints were punctured, warm them with a hairdryer - at high temperatures glue faster grasps.
For the repair of the joints, it is best to use special glue, which, unlike other types of glue, is very quickly "grasped" and has a high level of adhesion.
Spots on the wallpaper
Some stains can be simply washed away, just to do it is very careful, so as not to lose the drawing. Wash the paper wallpaper with a soap solution or a washing agent with a soft sponge. If there is no result - you can try to use the stain remover for clothes.
Fat, oil stains, traces from colored chalk are removed with dishwashing liquid, and stains from carcasses and auto batches - alcohol or liquid for removing nail polish. Very small specks can be simply filled with a tassel in tone with wallpaper.
Before removing stains using aggressive detergents, be sure to check how the wallpaper react to them, because it is easier to spoil paper or vinyl wallpapers. Do it best on a small closed area of wallpapers, which is not in sight.
How to remove bubbles on dry wallpaper
First of all, it should be said that really big swelling on the wallpaper is very problematic and in some cases it will be easier to cross one or more wallpapers.
If the air bubbles are a bit and they are small in the area, you can try to eliminate them. To do this, you will need a syringe with a needle, glue, rubber roller or rag.
Gently pens out the swelling in the center, squeeze the air out of it and fill it with a glue syringe. Then to smoke the bubble squeaking from it the excess glue, for this, you may need to pierce it in the place of glue cluster or even cut a little with the help of a sharp blade.
Cut bubbles - not the best idea, at least if you are not 100% sure that you are doing. It will be very difficult to glue the cuts, moreover, after drying the place of the section may disperse.
LITTLE TRICKS
If the pieces of old wallpapers are not survived, try searching for similar wallpapers in stores, and if your searches were not crowned with success, then for the repair of wallpaper you can use a piece shot from the wall at an invisible place. Thus made by the "Shoulders", you can put it selected in the store suitable with color with wallpaper just tone.
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