Painting over old wallpaper

Maggiemoo_2

Hi there,
We have just done this in our house but have found that the paper seems to be lifting at the seams in certain places. Can anyone suggest the best thing to stick it back to the wall without causing too much mess.

Thanks in advance!
Mags

wallbash

Buy a tube of 'overlap/seam' glue
Will be the same place as normal wallpaper paste, but comes in a tube.
Looks white but dries clear.

Steve_Groves

Maggiemoo wrote: »

Hi there,
We have just done this in our house but have found that the paper seems to be lifting at the seams in certain places. Can anyone suggest the best thing to stick it back to the wall without causing too much mess.

Thanks in advance!
Mags

Go to Boots and buy one of the oral syringes that are used for kids' medicine.

You can now fill it with wall paper paste and squirt it under the areas where the paper is lifting, spread it around by hand before putting the paper back to the wall.

If the paper is lifting at the edges then this is simple. If you have sections with no access to the wall then make a small cut with a stanley knife and squirt the paste in through that hole.

Maggiemoo_2

Could you use something like No More Nails?

roddydogs

Nooooooooooooo

Steve_Groves

Maggiemoo wrote: »

Could you use something like No More Nails?

No reason why not but stripping the wall paper at a later date would be a killer and possibly end up needing some remedial plastering / filling

Maggiemoo_2

Why? what will it do?

Steve_Groves

Maggiemoo wrote: »

Why? what will it do?

One lightly adheres paper to a wall whilst the other is a replacement for nails.

You could use nails if you are considering "no more nails" :-)

McKneff

e=roddydogs;18851127]Nooooooooooooo[/quote]

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

LandyAndy

wallbash wrote: »

Buy a tube of 'overlap/seam' glue
Will be the same place as normal wallpaper paste, but comes in a tube.
Looks white but dries clear.

This works well. I used it on badly peeling ceiling paper and it was great. You will need to overpaint the repaired areas afterwards.

Maggiemoo_2

Thanks all, the reason I asked about NO MORE NAILS is because my silly husband tried to use that (only on a patch in the stairwell!) and I told him it would never come off. Will look at the overlap glue and some more paste.