Wallpapering Advice

[hammerman]

I'm wallpapering with a heavy embossed anaglypta type paper which has a "heavy stipple" pattern.

As it dries, the joins become a bit more visible which will drive me mad. I've tried painting the joins with a good layer of emulsion (the walls will be painted anyway) but is there anything else that can be used to hide the joins a bit better? What about a very fine filler?

Thanks

[Togo]

Always, but always, paper away from the light source. Windows in particular. And soak, I mean soak. Paste 4 pieces and fold before hanging the first. In my case, wear your reading glasses and ensure that the seams are butted tight. Ignore top and bottom trim whist you are getting that right, it can always be peeled back and re-pasted as it hangs so as to be workable before trimming. That first piece next to the window needs to be dead plumb and the edge straight before to move on. Mare.

[Togo]

PS. Don't even think about a filler.

[gingejbee]

My wallpapering advice is....don't bother.

[douglas9401]

We've just had the bedroom in our 1950s house papered.
The guy put lining paper up horizontally and gave it three coats. You'd think it had been plastered.

Vertical is soooo yesterday. :-)

[ummmm]

Lining paper usually goes up horizontally

[Eleena]

Have you tried a seam roller as well hammerman.

[gness]

Give the fine filler applied with your finger a go, Hammerman....I've done that and painted over it worked very well...I detest joins showing....x

[Eleena]

What's the surface like gness when you eventually want to change wallpaper?

[Ken4155]

Lining paper is laid horizontally when papering over it. when painting it, much better to apply it vertically, like normal wallpaper.
Hammerman; i'm assuming your wallpaper was a free match and that sometimes does present the odd problem. However, if you have butt joined as best you can, and used a soft seam roller (not the hard plastic) a couple of coats of decent emulsion should hide any joins. If your joins are wider than acceptable, i can only assume that you didn't follow the soaking time instructions that come with the paper.

[douglas9401]

You're probably right, I'll strip it at the weekend.

What were we thinking?

[tonyav]

I have also done that in the past, gness.
No problem with the surface, Eleena. Especially if you use a scraper to remove the old wallpaper.

[gness]

It's such a small bit of filler, Eleena....most of it a very fine layer on the wallpaper making the join invisible....and just comes away when you strip the wallpaper off....x

[Garaman]

Never had the problem, but if I had I would use a fine filler for sure. I can't see any problem with filling it and painting over.

[jennyjoan]

I've had a anaglypta paper in my hall stairs and landing for about maybe 20 years now. It is absolutely stunning (even tho I say it myself) - it is embossed like S shapes. Was the best buy of my life. Anyway for me don't sorta worry too much about the joins - good paint fills it in.

Mind you when my Polish guy painted mine last July after not being painted for 12 years - it took him about 12 coats - one coat for every year. It is still fabulous looking.

[Old_Geezer]

If it shrunk away from the previous piece then you probably soaked and stretched it too much and it shrink back as it dried. Would have thought anagypta would have been less prone to that; but still. The idea is to get the right about of paste and leave it on just long enough.

As for hiding the flaw now it is there, I guess filler is an alternative to striping it off and getting it right. Once painted over it should minimise the visible issue.

[Eleena]

Oops! .. sorry for not replying sooner, I've been texting. Thanks everyone (regards filler)