Any tips on measuring up hallways and stairs for wallpaper? Some form of
guestimate? Looks like it could take ages to do it accurately. ;-(

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On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:15:39 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
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Any tips on measuring up hallways and stairs for wallpaper? Some form of
guestimate? Looks like it could take ages to do it accurately. ;-(

Try here
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...stimator&meta=
Google is your friend .

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Any tips on measuring up hallways and stairs for wallpaper? Some form of
guestimate? Looks like it could take ages to do it accurately. ;-(

Try here
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...stimator&meta=
Google is your friend .

Doesn't really save much time - no easy way for staircase.

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Any tips on measuring up hallways and stairs for wallpaper? Some form of
guestimate? Looks like it could take ages to do it accurately. ;-(

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Any wallpaper on them now? if not go all the way along the hall and make
pencil markings the width of a piece of wallpaper and the stairs wall then
measure the drop from ceiling to skirting from this you will then be able to
gather how any pieces is required add it all together,see how many drops is
got from a standard roll of wallpaper and allow a few inches for each drop.

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Any tips on measuring up hallways and stairs for wallpaper? Some form of
guestimate? Looks like it could take ages to do it accurately. ;-(

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You could ask you next door neighbour if the house is the same.

When I did our landing/hallway I asked the guy nextdoor how many he had
bought, because he had just done his.
But when I was finished I had 5 rolls left over, when I mention this to the
guy he said he had 5 roll left over as well!
Baz.

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You could ask you next door neighbour if the house is the same.

When I did our landing/hallway I asked the guy nextdoor how many he had
bought, because he had just done his.
But when I was finished I had 5 rolls left over, when I mention this to
the guy he said he had 5 roll left over as well!
Baz.


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On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:48:51 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
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In article ,
wrote:
Any tips on measuring up hallways and stairs for wallpaper? Some form of
guestimate? Looks like it could take ages to do it accurately. ;-(

Try here
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...stimator&meta=
Google is your friend .

Doesn't really save much time - no easy way for staircase.

FFS .It's not rocket science . measure the width to see how many roll
widths it takes and mark each width on the wall and measure the
length of the drops and work it out from there ...most places take
back unused / unwrapped rolls .

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:50:51 +0100, wrote:

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:48:51 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
wrote:
Any tips on measuring up hallways and stairs for wallpaper? Some form of
guestimate? Looks like it could take ages to do it accurately. ;-(

Try here
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...stimator&meta=
Google is your friend .

Doesn't really save much time - no easy way for staircase.

FFS .It's not rocket science . measure the width to see how many roll
widths it takes and mark each width on the wall and measure the
length of the drops and work it out from there ...most places take
back unused / unwrapped rolls .

I meant unused /still wrapped

It happens that Dave Plowman (News) formulated :
Any tips on measuring up hallways and stairs for wallpaper? Some form of
guestimate? Looks like it could take ages to do it accurately. ;-(

You cannot really achieve absolute accuracy. Go around the walls with a
pencil marking the number of 'paper drops'. Now measure the longest
length of each drop with an extra 6" added to each.

If the paper edges have to be matched, find out how far apart the
matches are and add half of that to each drop length. Add all the drop
totals together, then work out how many rolls to provide that length -
you will then need to add one or two extra rolls to the total, to
ensure you have enough. Usually the will agree when you buy, that you
can take any surplus back for a refund.


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wrote:
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:48:51 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
wrote:
Any tips on measuring up hallways and stairs for wallpaper? Some form of
guestimate? Looks like it could take ages to do it accurately. ;-(

Try here
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...stimator&meta=
Google is your friend .

Doesn't really save much time - no easy way for staircase.

FFS .It's not rocket science . measure the width to see how many roll
widths it takes and mark each width on the wall and measure the
length of the drops and work it out from there

Do you actually think I don't know how to do that? What I was hoping for
was some clever other way.

...most places take back unused / unwrapped rolls .

Indeed.

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Baz wrote:

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
Any tips on measuring up hallways and stairs for wallpaper? Some form
of guestimate? Looks like it could take ages to do it accurately. ;-(

You could ask you next door neighbour if the house is the same.

I've not seen him do *anything* around the house - not even gardening. For
decorating they get pros in.

When I did our landing/hallway I asked the guy nextdoor how many he had
bought, because he had just done his. But when I was finished I had 5
rolls left over, when I mention this to the guy he said he had 5 roll
left over as well! Baz.

Trouble is mine's different from other similar houses in the street due to
alterations to the 2nd floor.

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On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:50:51 +0100, wrote:

most places take
back unused / unwrapped rolls .

But do check on restrictions if the paper is ordered in. Some
manufacturers have a minimum quantity for return or impose a service
charge to discourage returns.
(And do make sure that you get enough if buying from B&Q or similar -
when I worked at a Crown Decorator Centre we regularly had people
coming in who had bought wallpaper at B&Q, wanted one more roll to
finish the job and then discovered that it an obsolete pattern that
had gone out of stock - we couldn't help them either.)

In article ,
Peter Johnson wrote:
But do check on restrictions if the paper is ordered in. Some
manufacturers have a minimum quantity for return or impose a service
charge to discourage returns.
(And do make sure that you get enough if buying from B&Q or similar -
when I worked at a Crown Decorator Centre we regularly had people
coming in who had bought wallpaper at B&Q, wanted one more roll to
finish the job and then discovered that it an obsolete pattern that
had gone out of stock - we couldn't help them either.)

Idly looking round the likes of B&Q they don't seem to stock a large
enough number of rolls for this job anyway at any one branch.
Any recommendations for an online place?

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Baz wrote:

When I did our landing/hallway I asked the guy nextdoor how many he had
bought, because he had just done his.
But when I was finished I had 5 rolls left over, when I mention this to the
guy he said he had 5 roll left over as well!

He, he. The old ones are the best.

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In article ,
Peter Johnson wrote:
But do check on restrictions if the paper is ordered in. Some
manufacturers have a minimum quantity for return or impose a service
charge to discourage returns.
(And do make sure that you get enough if buying from B&Q or similar -
when I worked at a Crown Decorator Centre we regularly had people
coming in who had bought wallpaper at B&Q, wanted one more roll to
finish the job and then discovered that it an obsolete pattern that
had gone out of stock - we couldn't help them either.)

Idly looking round the likes of B&Q they don't seem to stock a large
enough number of rolls for this job anyway at any one branch.
Any recommendations for an online place?


From my minimum experience of wallpapering, make sure you get the rolls from
the same batch (the rolls are marked with a batch number) or there might be
fractional variations in colour.

Cheers

Tim

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Paul Matthews wrote:
Any tips on measuring up hallways and stairs for wallpaper? Some form of
guestimate? Looks like it could take ages to do it accurately. ;-(

Phone a decorator to get a price to do the job and ask how many rolls
you will need to get for him?

Indeed - my thoughts were a experienced decorator would just look at the
job to get a near enough guestimate. Can't see him spending ages measuring
accurately. So wondered how?

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Paul Matthews wrote:
Any tips on measuring up hallways and stairs for wallpaper? Some form of
guestimate? Looks like it could take ages to do it accurately. ;-(

Phone a decorator to get a price to do the job and ask how many rolls
you will need to get for him?

Indeed - my thoughts were a experienced decorator would just look at the
job to get a near enough guestimate. Can't see him spending ages measuring
accurately. So wondered how?


Probably instinct if he's a pro. And being well enough known at all the
suppliers to buy a couple of rolls too many and get a refund on the
unneeded ones.

Cheers

Tim

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Any tips on measuring up hallways and stairs for wallpaper? Some form
of guestimate? Looks like it could take ages to do it accurately. ;-(

There are charts in stores & books or an online calculator here
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/property/ca...wallpaper.html

That would help with the hall & landing. The triangular bit over the stairs
will be roughly half a square IYSWIM, so enter in the width & height and
divide by two?


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In article ,
Paul Matthews wrote:

Any tips on measuring up hallways and stairs for wallpaper? Some form of
guestimate? Looks like it could take ages to do it accurately. ;-(

Phone a decorator to get a price to do the job and ask how many rolls
you will need to get for him?

Indeed - my thoughts were a experienced decorator would just look at the
job to get a near enough guestimate. Can't see him spending ages measuring
accurately. So wondered how?



Probably instinct if he's a pro. And being well enough known at all the
suppliers to buy a couple of rolls too many and get a refund on the
unneeded ones.

When buying the paper I always ask if I can return the un-used rolls.

Dave