Please help Wallpapering????

jellynose

I have just purchased some wallpaper and it has a little symbol on it that has a line with an arrow either side and 53/26.5cm below it. Can anyone give me advice on how best to measure each strip.

Thanks

mikeywills

Possible suggestion is the repeat pattern, 53cm in length, by the width of the roll which is 26.5cm?

YorkshireBoy

Roll is 53cm wide, and has a 'pattern half-repeat' of 26.5cm

(Google for 'wallpaper repeat 26.5cm')

misgrace

Do you mean <I> ( sorry cant do arrows), that normally means a straight match, that the pateren is the same all through the paper.
If its the arrows are not level, it means a drop pattern, and the best way to match it is to paste your first length, hang it on the wall, then take the roll up to the length and match the pattern that way.

Unless its a straight pattern match then I wouldnt advise cutting your lengths beforehand, normally from ceiling to tops of skirting boards, paper lengths are anything from 90" to 94" (sorry dont do Centremetres either lol) unless you have very high ceilings.

jellynose

Thanks everyone.

Misgrace the arrows are not even, there is an arrow at the top of the line, and then and arrow on the other side of the line at the bottom. The arrows are not facing each other, I should have went with woodchip instead

The paper costs quite a bit of money and don't want to mess it up, will google it and see.

Thanks again.

YorkshireBoy

jellynose wrote:

The paper costs quite a bit of money and don't want to mess it up, will google it and see.

With the paper you've chosen, the most you'll 'waste' is 26.5cm per drop.

If it's a modern house, with lowish ceilings, you'll probably still get your 4 drops (off a standard 10.05m roll) - even with a 26.5cm (approx 11") wastage on each drop.

misgrace

jellynose, I think you will find that is a drop pattern, which means then like I said, hang a length up, or what you could do is to roll out on the floor, and then open another roll and roll that out to match the pattern, then you can see where the match is and how much you will lose on each length.
If it is a drop pattern, then the trick is, and Im sure YB will agree, that you work of 3 rolls.
The reason being, each roll of paper will have the pattern match at at different stages in the roll, for example, the first roll say, the pattern match could be at the top, then the second roll might have it further down and so on.
What this does is save you a bit of paper, if you are working of just the one roll, then you will have loads of wastage trying to match each length, but if you work between the 3 or even 4, you will find that there is less wastage.

YB, I dont mean to correct you or anything, but I have just papered a clients room a couple weeks ago, and yes I got the dreaded drop pattern, and what a nightmare that was, I was working of 4 rolls, admittidly I did get 4 drops the odd times, but the majority was 3, but thats cause I lost 13" on every flippen drop.
I kept every bit of paper till the end, trying to find bits that would fit under the window or over the door, and to add insult to injury I told the client to get 9 rolls, extra cause I knew it was a DP, but her friend went shopping with her, told her to get 7, as thats how much it took to do her room, (different paper):rolleyes: , so of course client was 2 rolls short, the trouble she had to find the two rolls.:eek:

YorkshireBoy

misgrace wrote:

YB, I dont mean to correct you or anything...

Feel free - I'm only a DIY decorator (with low ceilings).

jellynose

Thanks to both of you.

Misgrace (I think) that I understand what I have to do. Just about to give it a go, wish me luck.

misgrace

Jellynose, I do wish you luck as any pattern paper is not easy, specially DP, and you need time and patience to measure your walls, and try and work out that you leave a good width at the end of walls, as there is nothing worse than coming to the end of the wall and try and piece in a 2" length :eek: , as the next walls piece has to carry on from the previous walls bit you have hung, so if at the end of the first wall you have hung a length of say 12" wide, then you have just under 8" to hang on the ajoining wall and make sure it matches.

Make sure when hanging your wall paper, that you work towards point of entry (door) so you are hanging your paper towards the door.
Hope this helps you a bit.:)