Starting repairs, it is very important to understand that putty for wallpaper is one of the most critical stages in this work, the necessary qualitative result will be directly dependent on it. A well -prepared foundation in the future will save you from “swollen bubbles” and many other troubles that may appear when pasting walls.
In this matter, much attention is paid to primer and putty, because only with their help you can get rid of bumps and cracks, often over time appearing on the walls.
Tools and materials for putting walls
Video — putting walls for wallpaper
By going to a construction store, you can get confused from the abundance of materials and tools. It is believed that the main tools that are useful during work are:
20-cm spatula;
60 cm spatula;
corner spatula that allows you to bring angles to the ideal.
Plastic profiles have recently appeared on the market, which will come in handy for those who, after putty, want to overlay walls with wallpaper, they are not suitable for painting.
You still need:
Container for subsequent breeding of the mixture;
Mixer — a special nozzle for a drill (for stirring a dry mixture);
sandpaper.
Beginners are also advised to purchase gypsum putty, since it lies perfectly, gives a small shrinkage, however, use this material when leveling walls in wet rooms is not recommended. You can buy a cement putty, but it is subjected to a very strong shrinkage, and therefore it will be quite difficult for a beginner to cope with her. There is an average option — a polymer building material, although its main minus is a high price.
It is important to note that in the store you need to purchase a universal «makeup» for walls, with the help of which you can close cracks and level the walls.
Prepare and smooth the walls
On video — alignment of walls under the wallpaper by putty
Remove the old wallpapers from the walls, if the walls are painted, it is necessary to clean only the swollen bubbles, or the places in which the paint cracked. After which the surface is covered with a soil layer and already at the end — putty.
If the repair takes place in a new house, the process is reverse — at first the walls are plastered, then covered with a primer, and, as a “finish”, putty. Do not forget that it is impossible to miss the primer in any case, in the opposite case, the materials dry out, give shrinkage, and ultimately they can crack.
Putty for wallpaper — work technology
Here you purchased spatulas, bought a bag of material, but what to do next? First of all, prepare the putty (if it was bought in the form of a dry mixture) — read the instructions, dilute and mix thoroughly.
Stir so carefully and intensively that there are not even lumps left, because they will be very visible when applying to the surface.
After that, we take a large and small spatulas, apply a large little putty to the edge with the help of a small, puts it at an angle of about 30 degrees to the wall and smoothly, but quickly draw along the wall. If you “meet” cracks along the way, they should be covered with this: on top upwards is vertically and along the wall horizontally. In order for the surface to be 100% covered with “make -up”, new strokes overlap the existing. It is pleased that when carrying out procedures for subsequent pasting wallpaper, it is not necessary to completely hide all the bumps — they will “settle” under the material. In the event that the walls are completely uneven and have many defects, carry out all the procedures again, and then you can “fade” with sandpaper.
Putting the walls under the wallpaper — do not forget about the corners
Many «masters» who picked up a spatula and sandpaper for the first time, stop when putty and primer in the room in the room. But why is there so many difficulties here? First of all, you should know that when ennoble the corners, you cannot use ordinary improvised means or those spatulas that you used to align the walls. No, a special tool is needed here — a spatula that is able to “draw” the right angles (equal to 90 degrees).
It has several working surfaces that are located at right angles to each other. Using small improvised tools, a little mixture is applied to each of them, drawing in the corners from top to bottom.
Little tricks of big putty
When working with the mixture, TB must be observed, and during dilution, be sure to put on the respirator.
After the end of the work, wash the tools with warm water, do not throw out the dried pieces of the solution into the sewer, otherwise you cannot avoid a clogging.
For several days, protect the walls from hypothermia, moisture and drying out.
The putty walls are not such a difficult matter as it may seem to you, the main thing is to study all the stages of preparation and applying the mixture, prepare the walls efficiently — then no problems.