Sophie Laurence Plain Metallic Silver Shimmer Textured Thick Free Match Vinyl Wallpaper for Living Room Bedroom Kitchen Bathroom - Paste The Paper Wallpaper

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All our wallpapers are displayed with an alternative choice of available colours. If you are looking for a particular colour try searching using the wallpaper colour option Pattern Repeats & Colour Match What is a design or pattern repeat?

This wallpaper requires each strip to match in horizontal lines across adjacent strips. The design will be the same from left to right on one strip. Most of you are not wallpaper symbol experts and yet, every wallpaper you will ever see, will have their specifications and properties communicated in the form of a standardised set of symbols. As it is crucial that you follow a wallpaper’s instructions, we’ve created this handy post to help you identify and understand what each symbol stands for. Hover over each symbol in this post to identify it. Washability Rating This type of paper is the traditional way to hang wallpaper, however, requires a few more steps to hang the wallpaper than other types of wallpaper adhesive techniques. Paste-the-Wall

When you inspect a wallpaper label sometimes there will be a symbol relating to the removal technique for that wallpaper. Knowing what strategy must be used to remove your wallpaper at a later date will save you a lot of time and effort in the long run. There are three main wallpaper removal techniques. Dirt and domestic water-based stains can be easily removed from this type of wallpaper. It can be scrubbed clean using a sponge, cloth or brush using a mild detergent or soapy water depending on the stain. The pattern repeats across the roll half way down the vertical repeat. This normally means allowing for extra length and cutting very carefully as each cut will start at the half repeat. The best way to be certain of buying enough wallpaper, is to work it out as if it were an ordinary repeat and add half a repeat to each drop, except for the first one. Divide this total amount of metres by the number of metres on a roll to determine the number of rolls needed. Spongeable – If you see a single wavy line on your label then it means that your wallpaper is spongeable. This is the lowest washability rating and means that, to clean the wallpaper, you have to use a damp but not soaking wet sponge to very gently wipe the surface of the paper. You must not use any cleaning fluids or chemicals, just water.

If you are not sure about the colour, pattern or texture of the wallpaper you wish to buy it is advisable to use the Wallpaperking sampling service. Wallpaper colour shown on your computer screen may vary slightly from the product itself. We do our best to ensure that the wallpaper photography matches as closely as possible with the product itself. However, as every computer monitor has different settings for brightness, contrast etc the result depicted may appear to be a shade lighter or darker than it is in reality.

This wallpaper hanging pattern is often seen on plainer wallpapers. It requires each strip of wallpaper to be hung in the reverse of the other. This prevents shading on plainer wallpapers. Although a little difficult to understand at first, these wallpaper symbols are definately useful and once understood, willhelp you get the best results when hanging, removing or cleaning your wallpaper. These symbols show the cleaning method(s) the wallpaper can withstand , r anging from spongeable to extra- scrubbable . T hese symbols also reveal how durable the wallpaper is.

Ready mixed paste is available in 2.5kg containers which will cover approximately 25 meters of wallpaper, 5kg containers which covers approx 5 rolls or a 10kg tub which covers approx 10 rolls. How do I hang conventional or ‘regular’ wallpaper? Wet Removable – Wet removable wallpaper can only be removed from the wall with a liquid solution such as using a stripping agent or soaking the paper with water. You will then need to manually scrape away the excess paper. Three wavy lines on top of the other is the identifier for an extra washable wallpaper. These wallpapers are more resilient to a damper environment and most stains can be removed using soap and a sponge or cloth. You may also be able to remove some greasy stains if action is taken immediately. Paste the Wall– Paste the wall is a more recent addition to the wallpaper world. With much easier application, no need for soak times and less risk of errors, this is an increasingly popular wallpaper type. Paste the wall is exactly what it sounds like; you apply the paste directly to the wall then fix the paper on top. Paste the wall wallpaper will often be found with non-woven wallpapers. Add this figure to the metres needed without the pattern repeat and you get the final amount of metres for covering your wall.Identified with an angled line to represent wallpaper being removed with a small stripper symbol. Wet removable wallpaper can only be removed from the wall with a liquid solution such as a wallpaper stripping agent or by soaking the wallpaper with water. You will then use a scraper to remove the wallpaper. Hanging your wallpaper doesn’t have to be as hard as you think. Even though wallpaper symbols may look like hieroglyphs from an ancient culture, they are easy to understand once you know what they are! Free match – A free match design requires no aligning and so is the easiest of the pattern matches to hang. It does not matter how you place adjacent strips, the pattern will line up. Free match results in the least amount of wasted paper compared to the other pattern matches available. Your wallpaper arrives and it's time to take wallpaper to wall, but the label has got a series of symbols that look like they belong in greek mythology?! Don't panic, our complete guide to wallpaper symbols will help you get to know your wallpaper in no time so you can enjoy your decorating project!

If you're looking to match new wallpaper to existing wallpaper on your wall, here are a few tips to help you in your search: This means hanging lining paper horizontally to give an even, professional finish when the top wallpaper is hung over it. Hanging lining paper horizontally will also avoid any prominent vertical seams being visible. What is 'sizing'? A free match design is identified with an arrow and a 0 on your wallpaper label. It requires no matching of a pattern/no alignment so is the easiest of the pattern matches to hang. Free match wallpapers use the least amount of wallpaper as you don't have any wastage to cut away.Extra-washable wallpaper is more resilient to cleaning and mo isture. You can clean extra- washbale wallpaper using a wet cloth and soapy water and you should be able to remove most water-based stains if it is cleaned carefully , any greasy / oil-based stains should be cleaned immediately for best results. It is possible but not recommended. It can be done if you are hanging over a flat wallpaper but it is not possible to hang over textured or vinyl products, as the new paper will not adhere. For the best results and most professional finish it is always better to strip off any existing paper. What is a vinyl to vinyl adhesive, and when do I use one? Step 2: To apply the paste. Apply the paste liberally, brushing outwards to evenly dispense the paste. A roller can be used to give an even distribution. Identified by a pasting brush pointing towards a wall symbol. Since its launch, paste the wall wallpaper has proven incredibly popular as it is an easier application method. There is no need to soak the wallpaper paste on the wallpaper, less opportunity for error and quite a speedy application method. Quite simply you brush your paste straight onto the wall and then take your wallpaper to it.