How to apply Wallpaper on lime

If you plan to pasting Wallpaper on the white-washed walls, it can be done only if the layer of lime is small and holds quite firmly.

Before wallcovering conduct a thorough preparatory work. Buy at the hardware supermarket acrylic primer. Apply it on the wall using a large paintbrush or roller. Allow primer to dry for 24-36 hours, again repeat the layer to dry and then cover the walls on the third time.

Proceed to the wallcovering after 24 hours after applying the third coat of primer. Drying time depends on room temperature. The higher the temperature, the less time it will take to dry each coat of primer.

If the whitewash on the walls a lot and it started to flake off in places, you do not help no primer, since the Wallpaper will simply fall off with a layer of lime. In this case, the inevitable clean and the plastered walls then it is possible to glue the Wallpaper.

For the removal of lime from the walls, use an iron spatula, brush, cloth and water. To dust as small as possible, liberally moisten the wall, remove the layer of lime with a putty knife and wire brush again carefully rinse the walls, zashpaklyuyte.

After removing the wash, thoroughly dry the premises, apply to the putty one coat of primer, dry wall. Wallpaper can be pasted in a dry place at zero temperature. If you don't take sufficient time to dry, despite the fact that the walls will be cleaned from lime, Wallpaper can fall off and you will have to redo all the work.

Wallcovering, use a quality glue that is suitable for the kind of materials that you are going to apply. This will also be the guarantee that the Wallpaper will stick quite firmly.