We wallpapered and painted our terraced house built in 2000 with calcium silicate walls using painter's fleece. We started upstairs, result: medium
It was supposed to be better on the ground floor. And in my opinion, it became/is almost perfect.
You can't see a gap - it looks like plastered.
I wouldn't know how a painter could do it better…
The difference to upstairs:
We wallpapered upstairs together, downstairs I worked completely alone. When working with two people, you can never get the strips perfectly edge to edge.
When working alone, gravity does it all by itself ;)
Also important:
Use a lot of paste and when applying paste to the edge of the previous strip, don't be too careful, otherwise the edges will come loose again. I intentionally applied about 2-3 cm of paste onto the previous strip to avoid dry spots.
Press the overlaps with a wet sponge and at the same time absorb the excess paste.
That doesn't matter at all. Feel free to really mess around with it :)
And the Metylan ready-made paste is really expensive, but it also works better than the self-mixed stuff.
The extra 100-150 € is well spent.
On our ground floor, you can look from every side at every angle and you won't see any joints.
We whitewashed all the walls with Alpina.
And always start practicing in “not so important” rooms.
For example, an office etc.
If the result there is not quite perfect, it bothers less.
In the living room, kitchen, etc. it should definitely be perfect ;)
Oh yes, I always hated wallpapering, especially with textured wallpaper and the annoying previous soaking of the strips - disgusting!
I am still amazed and thrilled at how well I managed this here. Even the wall opening between the kitchen and the living room turned out tiptop.
We used the test winner painter's fleece from Stiftung Warentest.
I would use it again.
Definitely don't save on the material.
Good luck!
