When repairing one of the most important stages prior wallpapering is the alignment of walls and luting.Wallpaper, even the most beautiful and expensive, new curve on the wall, can spoil all the impression of a repair, and even bring disappointment.It should be noted that the process of spackling - enough time-consuming, but not so difficult, but because the power of almost anyone.
So, how to putty the walls under the wallpaper?
1. The choice of material and the number of
Prior to putty the walls under the wallpaper, you need to determine the choice of fillers.The modern market provides us with a very wide range of building materials.There are many kinds of fillers (glues, latex, acrylic, butyric, PVA-based, etc.).To select the desired material should carefully review all the information about each, consult the dealer or other professionals.When ready for use as fillers come in several forms:
- Dry mixes.They contain all the necessary to carry out plastering work components: fillers, binders.To work with the filler it must be diluted with water in the proportions indicated on the package.An advantage of dry blends is that they do not shrink and therefore may be used for fine work.The disadvantage is that they require strict adherence to the specified proportions of water and the mixture and thorough mixing.Term of Use diluted filler is typically less than a day.
- Ready-mix.They can be immediately applied to the wall, because they are ready for use.The disadvantage is that, after drying, there is a slight shrinkage, and therefore better not to mix ready to use for finishing and apply a thick layer.
After selecting the material necessary to determine its amount.This is performed by calculation according to the state of the walls and the surface area to be spackling.
2. The preparatory phase
Before starting work, you need to be primed wall.This procedure should be required to perform before the putty walls under the wallpaper, to ensure reliable adhesion layer of putty to the wall surface.
3. Directly luting
now ready to spackling.If you use dry mixture, then before putty walls under the wallpaper, it is necessary to pre-prepare in sufficient quantities.The technology of applying putty is quite simple: using a trowel mix throw on the wall and then spread with a spatula, moving it towards the left and right, up and down, and when doing so pressing force.Starting from the need to work one side of the wall and to move in the opposite direction.
How putty wall corners?For the sealing of the interior angles of the mixture is applied on both sides of the angle, and then pressed into serpyanku (special adhesive glass tape), pre-pasted into a corner.It is important to distribute the filler between the walls.For the sealing of the outer corners require metal corner to be cut to a height.Putty is applied to the side of the outer corners, and then it is pressed area itself.After this area is closed with an additional layer of putty.
can also be applied at an angle more fillers, and then after drying process this place a wooden block wrapped with sandpaper.
4. Grinding
After the plaster is completely dry (usually one day), the wall must be sanded to get rid of unnecessary microscopic bumps.
must then assess the results and, if necessary, perform a re-puttying.
That's all.Now you know how you need to putty the walls.You can easily get to work - and all you get!
