How to wallpaper - using a Laser Liner

[@markmccarthy456]

Very clear and precisely explained as always Phil 👍🏻

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@thebearthecave8502]

Very thorough Mr Phil! I do this for a living but I still enjoy watching other folk’s techniques, I find it really interesting! Keep doing you mate, really enjoying the back catalogue since discovering you on here! 👌🏼👍🏼 You even get the big telly treatment when the Mrs isn’t about 😂😂

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

cool, how bigga Telly? ;)

[@thebearthecave8502]

@@ProfessionalPainterDecorator haha! Wouldn’t you like to know!

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

The bigga the betta ;)

[@thebearthecave8502]

@@ProfessionalPainterDecorator 🤣🤣

[@DonnaHoffman-e7j]

Love your videos, but I have a question. Why didn’t you start with the wall to the right of the door and not left of door only to go back to corner later?

[@samrix5793]

Glad to see another video!

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

More to come!

[@nialloconnor5321]

Hi Phil great video , i use to wallpaper years ago haven't papered over 18 years cause hung paper up side down stupid mistake done it late afternoon and i haven't hung paper since it , just gets others do it now for me if get any in , love to do it again , would you do more wallpapering videos bud , i could watch you all day mate your so good at explaining things thanks 👍

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

Many thanks.... Have you seen the wallpaper vids that went on over the last week or so. Stuff may be of interest to you.

[@nialloconnor5321]

Hi Phil just seen one will watch rest this week just moved house so been really busy . Totally agree with lining paper no filler on joints .if you were painting the lining paper would you fill joints then? Or still no mate

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

@@nialloconnor5321 butt joints, no need to fill when painting. Only time I may fill a joint is when I've had to cut/trim my own joint that may be slightly wider, as I've marked it with a pencil and cut with shears... But not very often. Once it's painted a couple of coats you won't be looking at joints.

[@nialloconnor5321]

Hi phil yeah understand that get it and agree with you thanks for the reply 👍

[@gerardskiling4065]

Would you need to apply size on the lining paper before the finish paper goes on?

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

No. And the only paper brand that I've come across that tell you to do that is Colefax & Fowler..... And I've done it as per instructions and wouldn't do it again like that. It doesn't allow you to move the paper about. The sized lining paper soaks in the paste on the paper toooo quick not giving you any working time. If anything... I'd use Gardz over the lining paper... But even then, I chance just hanging over the lining paper as normal. Sizing the lining made for hard work.

[@Da-Paperer]

@@ProfessionalPainterDecorator Did you do it "as per the instructions" though? Might be worthwhile exploring the possibility that you got something wrong.

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

@@Da-Paperer what you thinking, in what way?

[@Ralphs-House]

The only place I'd leave a slight gap and fill, is on ceilings. Simply because its too much hassle trying to butt joint accurately and hang at the same time. After all its only likely to be done once in probably 50 years and you end up with an absolutely flawless finish doing it that way. Not a trace of a line. This is almost certainly where it originates but lining ceilings seems to have gone out of vogue. On walls the reverse is true and you give yourself unecessary work and add additional time when you could carefully butt joint as you go.

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

Filler always shows as a different surface over the texture of the lining paper though. Nothing worse than seeing bands where the filler is smooth and painted over.

[@Ralphs-House]

@@ProfessionalPainterDecorator True enough. I scrape immediately the filler goes in and only needs flour paper to blend it in. Mind you, at 65, standing on a platform with creaky knees and without getting paper wrapped round my head is more the challenge now. Papering ceilings seems more a UK thing. Other countries seem gobsmacked that we even do it.

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

@@Ralphs-House can't beat a papered mural ceiling though... Did you see my video on it back end of last year?

[@richardloze5994]

hi phil. is there any thing different you would do when wall papering a chimney breast that as a built in log burner

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

Use tub paste on your lining. And the same tub paste for the finish paper.

[@richardloze5994]

Is there ever a time when you won't line the walls when wall papering.

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

@@richardloze5994 only ever had a couple of times extra wide 52" paper , that needed hand trimming... Instructions said don't line walls.

[@garyfryer3275]

Hi mate. When I was taught to paper we were always told to start near the light source (window) and work away from that. Is this not relevant any more? Or was it not really of much use anyway?

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

How long you going back? It's to do with edges and trimming that may be proud and create a 'shaddow' from the light. It's why you work away from the main light/window when papering a ceiling. Walls .. today with better trimming...it won't matter where you start. When did you last see a room and go ... Oh.. they didn't start from the window wall !

[@Da-Paperer]

Its not relevant anymore, no. It was relevant when paper was supplied in sheet form (16,17 and 1800's) and you lapped the sheets working away from the main light source and it was also relevant when wallpaper was supplied in roll form as some people chose to use the lap method in preference to trimming the paper. Paperhangers charged more to trim and hang than lap and hang.

[@malcolmhickson4621]

Hi Phil, what do use to hold the laser?

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

I mention it in the written discription.. an expandable roller pole with a sanding pad on the end.

[@Ralphs-House]

I use an old extendable lighting tripod (video/photography). Lasers are great - especially if you have to plaster around a fire opening as you can run the laser right across the face so all the plaster angle bead is lined up spot on.

[@thebearthecave8502]

Very thorough Mr Phil! I do this for a living but I still enjoy watching other folk’s techniques, I find it really interesting! Keep doing you mate, really enjoying the back catalogue since discovering you on here! 👌🏼👍🏼 You even get the big telly treatment when the Mrs isn’t about 😂😂