Transform Your Staircase with Wallpaper: The Step-by-Step Guide

[@mushypea2927]

Great video Phil, very informative and explained beautifully. Your papering skills are excellent. Thank you for putting this video up.

[@grahamstacey3149]

Absolutely wonderful work, that’s wallpaper engineering! I sense your dad’s influence and mentoring here. It reminds me of my grandfather training me when I was 16….”all about set out my boy”. Nice to celebrate ‘old school’, brilliant work Phil, that’s years of experience and an eye for detail demonstrated here. You’ve made my day. 👏👏👏

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

Thank you very much! it's not as easy as some many think... the 2nd on this will show you some more stuff you need to think about when hanging paper. Will I see you next week?

[@robbieduffy9998]

As a professional decorator of 48 years ( 4 yrs apprenticeship..city & guilds qualified etc .) I must say you have done an amazing job..ive lost count of the times ive heard other painters say they avoid decorating either they cant or couldn't be arsed..i think unless you pass the knowledge on to the younger generation its going to be a lost cause..well done sir.

[@bexp436]

What a fabulous job 😊

[@Tinman-sd4et]

Fantastic work Phil and great tuition to boot 👍🏻 nice 👌

[@painterman8863]

Tidy piece of wallpapering mate👍👏👏

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

Thanks 👍

[@sanbucaone]

Well done phill, nice to see good setting out of pattern. Looks well. 👌

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

Glad you like it. Spend a bit of time and love ok how it will be on a wall. A big mistake with some these days Steve.

[@MrWLJ71]

Hi Phil, very informative video thank you. My dad was pro P&D for over 50 years, so I learned much from him. I would like to ask why you are using a squeegee and not a brush, is it because you have pasted the walls and not the paper? Thank you Another question, would you say that paste the wall is better than paste the paper, the traditional way? Last question... what is the best paper type / weight to hide undulations in the wall surface? I have had finished plaster walls, not plaster board and I want to hide some of the imperfections. My Dad would probably say use a blown vinyl, but it is a modern house and the blown vinyl style probably would not work! Keep up the good work!

[@robster8444]

Very nice Phil, good informative video. Longest drop is the key to a 'PROPPER JOB', done it many times.😉😊👍👍 PS without a laser....cough.....cough. 🤣🤣😂😂

[@mikeyh2585]

Another very good informative video Mr Beckwith. The finish looked amazing. Just got myself a laser, better than a spirit level and pencil. Mike - Professional Amateur 🤪

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

Glad to help lol Put some smooth WallRock up this morning, just used my plumb bob to check the virtual quickly. The wall was so out, the string only touched the wall where I held it against the wall..the weight was a good half inch off the wall!! LoL how do you mark the wall with the string away from the wall 😆

[@countycod123]

Great Video Phil. Thanks 👍

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@countycod123]

@ProfessionalPainterDecorator I did. I'm a older guy trying to build abit of a business to keep me active into retirement. I'm.not a decorator originally by trade so any tips are good ones for me especially the longest drop first. I will also be buying one of those laser levels before my next papering challenge👍

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

@countycod123 loads of videos will be helping you that I've done.

[@bobx2387]

Phil, A lot of them have passed on now but local decs used to use me to hang hallways and ceilings as they did not have the confidence! With back and shoulders that are now in pain, I realise why.... Good instructive vid. Never have had a laser but may invest in one now. mBob (Albion Decoration) Weston super Mare.

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

Thanks for sharing. Brean Sands.. is that still going (pontins)

[@bobx2387]

@@ProfessionalPainterDecorator As the Crow flies a mile or two from me. Pontins is being taken over for Hinkley C workers... Mad or what? Bob.

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

not heard of that, is it another holiday park company?

[@bobx2387]

@@ProfessionalPainterDecorator No, It is to house workers from the new Nuclear Power Station... Bob.

[@dennyrichard9]

Easy peasy

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

The questions are always easy when you know the answers. ;😉

[@ianharris2407]

Great video as always , are you going onto lining paper or bare wall .love a video showing the tricky cuts . 👍🏻👍🏻

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

Tnx. You can see on the video the walls look white. It's reinforced lining paper

[@stevehughes4734]

That’s a Huepar laser Phil interesting

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

LasGoo

[@alberttatlock5104]

I used to hate papering stairs!

[@craigestey489]

Yes that’s why I for go the lining paper and colour match then GUARDZ the wall before hanging non woven Cole & Son. I’ve also noticed in Canadian homes if the heat pump is blowing on the papered wall the seams open in winter and disappear in summer, just like hardwood flooring gaps in seasonal conditioned spaces. Hence the painting background a body colour.

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

What colour could you use on a paper like this with different colours on the edges and the leopard being metallic?

[@craigestey489]

@ for the fish one I used the background beige. The smaller fish wasn’t that noticeable, but a couple of the eye level big fish, I used my artist paint pens and filled in the seam line. 😁

[@Barry6888]

Hi Phil great video again can you advise how to get on your Amazon store. it dosnt work cheers

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

Let me check on that. If you go to my main 'home' page on KZbin, it's listed at the top and should work in the description of my videos.

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

The link in the description works

[@eezy251able]

Yep I just pass it on. Not interested in wallpapering jobs, I let those who love it crack on and charge for it 😂

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

Exactly! 😹

[@AmandaBell-lc7uk]

Surely if you don’t hang paper you’re a painter and not a decorator.

[@eezy251able]

@AmandaBell-lc7uk well I'd rather stick to the painting and spraying jobs than give up my time hanging wallpaper.

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

@@eezy251able it's very lucrative though ;)

[@SidneySmith-b8i]

Phil, one in 23 painters could carry out the work to that standard, unless you want to dig up some deceased decorators, as there are not many of us left. Regards Sid the Decoroligist

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

1 in 23 or 1 in 33 ;)

[@darrenhirst4522]

Thought you would Ave sprayed woodwork with quick shot mate

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

If the customer had gone away like first planned, and not the coming and going in the house I would have. Too many doors being opened and closed to be able to tape them off correctly to spray. But all worked out well.

[@barrysmith5466]

Phil, the wood piece is called an apron.

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

Oooh. That rings a bell. Tnx

[@darrenhirst4522]

@barrysmith5466 yeah and handrail is well a handrail not a newell post

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

Most houses will have a Newell Post. It'll be the same starting point.

[@darrenhirst4522]

@ProfessionalPainterDecorator yeah in video u cut round hand rail if u looked back am sure u called it a newell post,unless my mistake u was saying normally there wud be a newell post there

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

@@darrenhirst4522 yeah.

[@darrenhirst4522]

Darts star cuts😂😂😂😂😂

[@marsdencarl89]

Oooshhh 6k worth of wallpaper there phil hope you've put in at least 12 grand to hang it 😂 👍

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

Yeah, like kitchens. What ever it costs to buy, it's double to fit it lol. We change £125 instead of £120 a day to hang paper lol

[@marsdencarl89]

@ProfessionalPainterDecorator 125 a day! Your on at least double that 😉

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

Charge for the job done. Not time taken ;)

[@Da-Paperer]

I have questions...

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

I can imagine 😆

[@StOrMmaGiiKz]

The reason I wouldn’t take it on is the chances are most clients do not want pay the money to just prepare for lining paper much less to hang finish paper that cost more per roll than I earn in a day, Years ago had job to paper 2 great big massive rooms in a mini mansion , when I said £1400 she emailed and said that i was over priced,emailed her back and told her the paper your buying is 6k so please find someone that can do it cheaper She then started emailing trying to barter I just stopped replying to her, I’ve been lucky enough to work with and learn from 2 top class paper hangers over the 35 years ,I’m not no where as fast as they was was but I did a decent job if I need to, but guess what anyone mentions paper I say get somebody else not worth my time or effort ,the amount of prep needed just to line a room ready to paper is ridiculous enough,give me a bit of scratch filler roller and a bush and that all concerned with.

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

its true, thankfully we don't have customers like that.. the price is the price, they either want it doing by e or not, hence we get the job and lining is a must. That took about 3 days to line and finish paper 5 and a half days... I'd allowed for all that and charged for it. This staircase took 4 weeks, most of the time two of us on it.

[@chrisbeach44]

You’re working for the wrong clients. A decorators’ biggest mistake is under valuing themselves. I’ve got to the stage where customers want me more than I want the job. I’m very fortunate that I can literally pick and choose my jobs and charge handsomely although it’s taken 30+ years to get to this stage.

[@davidsmalley8783]

1 in 5 painters may be more Cant paper hang Hence the title decorator

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

Possibly. But 87% of statistics are made up on the internet anyway. 😆

[@TheSmithyt]

Non woven opens up because the paste has to much water in it basically it’s been thinned to much

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

Ready mix tub paste though. Not flake packet paste. It's like you don't use flake paste for Vinyl, you use tub paste due to it having low water content.

[@AmandaBell-lc7uk]

Backing paper must be opposite to the finish paper.

[@ProfessionalPainterDecorator]

Why's that?