I am about to use prepasted wall paper and I am not sure I trust it. An
experienced wall paper guy says that he just uses thinned vinyl paste
and ignores the "prepaste". I am inclined to go that way. There is also
some stuff called activator...

I haven't put up any paper in 10 years and I remember back when my
father mixed his own paste out of outmeal...am I just being distrustful
of newfangled ideas?

On 31 Jan 2006 15:58:07 -0800, wrote:

I am about to use prepasted wall paper and I am not sure I trust it. An
experienced wall paper guy says that he just uses thinned vinyl paste
and ignores the "prepaste". I am inclined to go that way. There is also
some stuff called activator...

I've used it in a half dozen rooms over the past 25 years. Never had a
problem. I don't see the need for adding anything. Sometimes old timers
just won't try anything new no matter how good it is.
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3rd eye wrote in
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Don't use a water tray.



Why not?



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Most of the time it needs to be adjusted with additional adhesive.
How much would be hard to explain here.

Don't use a water tray.
A lot of it depends on the porosity of your walls.

If I don't use a water try, how does the paste get activated? Putting
these two quotes from your post together, should I activate the
(pre)paste by rolling on thinned paste like my friend says?

wrote:
Most of the time it needs to be adjusted with additional adhesive.
How much would be hard to explain here.


Don't use a water tray.
A lot of it depends on the porosity of your walls.


If I don't use a water try, how does the paste get activated? Putting
these two quotes from your post together, should I activate the
(pre)paste by rolling on thinned paste like my friend says?

The wallpaper paste probably has instructions for use with pre-pasted.
Good quality paper probably goes up more easily than cheap stuff. I put
up paper I purchased eight years before; shouldaknownbetter. Skip the
water tray. Brush on diluted paste, book the paper, etc. The paper
should be able to slide when it is first applied to the wall. Of
course, you also put size on the wall ahead of time.

For the DIYself'er I suppose sizing isn't a bad idea though none of
the pro's I know use it.

One of the main reasons, if not THE main one, for using sizing is to make
the wallpaper much easier to remove when the time comes to change and it
does. I suspose the pros aren't much interested in that.

Walt Conner

wrote in message
oups.com...
I am about to use prepasted wall paper and I am not sure I trust it. An
experienced wall paper guy says that he just uses thinned vinyl paste
and ignores the "prepaste". I am inclined to go that way. There is also
some stuff called activator...

I haven't put up any paper in 10 years and I remember back when my
father mixed his own paste out of outmeal...am I just being distrustful
of newfangled ideas?

Give the wallpaper to someone you don't really care for, and paint your
walls. Six to eight years from now when it's time to redecorate you'll be
thrilled that you didn't paper those walls. Take it from one who knows.
We've been in this house for almost 35 years. At one time or another every
one of the ten rooms was papered, and we've spent the last two years
stripping those walls, repairing or replacing sheetrock, and painting. Today
we're down to one room with wallpaper...our 20 x 24 foot family room...and
plans are for the walls to be stripped and painted this coming spring. I
dread the chore but it has to be done. If only we'd painted the walls in
the first place! Don't make the same mistake!!!

Liz

I'd start by rolling water on the back
Then, If you feel you need more grip, add pre-mixed glue to the water.

I like this

Any preferences for what kind of paste and what brand. I assume you
book the paper just as if it wasn't prepasted?

Liz wrote:
wrote in message
oups.com...
I am about to use prepasted wall paper and I am not sure I trust it. An
experienced wall paper guy says that he just uses thinned vinyl paste
and ignores the "prepaste". I am inclined to go that way. There is also
some stuff called activator...

I haven't put up any paper in 10 years and I remember back when my
father mixed his own paste out of outmeal...am I just being distrustful
of newfangled ideas?

Give the wallpaper to someone you don't really care for, and paint your
walls. Six to eight years from now when it's time to redecorate you'll be
thrilled that you didn't paper those walls. Take it from one who knows.
We've been in this house for almost 35 years. At one time or another every
one of the ten rooms was papered, and we've spent the last two years
stripping those walls, repairing or replacing sheetrock, and painting. Today
we're down to one room with wallpaper...our 20 x 24 foot family room...and
plans are for the walls to be stripped and painted this coming spring. I
dread the chore but it has to be done. If only we'd painted the walls in
the first place! Don't make the same mistake!!!

Liz


Yes! Again YES! The only way I will ever consider wallpaper again
will be if a professional does the removal of the old paper. My wife
knows it will be divorce time if she ever puts up another piece of it.

Harry K

"The only way I will ever consider wallpaper again
will be if a professional does the removal of the old paper"

As I said above, if you put 2 coats of sizing on the wall before the wall
paper, as most instructions say, removal is easy, dampen, let set, dampen
again start a corner and peel off.

Walt Conner

WConner wrote:
"The only way I will ever consider wallpaper again
will be if a professional does the removal of the old paper"

As I said above, if you put 2 coats of sizing on the wall before the wall
paper, as most instructions say, removal is easy, dampen, let set, dampen
again start a corner and peel off.

Walt Conner

Which is just fine until you want to paint that wall, then comes the
scrub, scrub and scrub again. That is what DIYers have against
wallpaper and what all too many wives eigther ignore or overlook.

Harry K

"then comes the scrub, scrub and scrub again"

Have not had that problem, wash the wall down and paint, am about to remove
some paper and paint next week.

Walt Conner

WConner wrote:

"then comes the scrub, scrub and scrub again"

Have not had that problem, wash the wall down and paint, am about to remove
some paper and paint next week.

Walt Conner