Wallpaper - Cutting, match & drop

[Dave Liquorice]

Hi,

I feel there *must* be away to simply measure and cut wallpaper that takes into account any drop and the trimming excess.

Collins doesn't mention anything, a google found plenty of sites but of the half a dozen or so I looked at anything to do with a pattern drop was either marked avoid(!) or just had one sentance that said take the drop into account.

Manual matching just seems so, well manual, and with full lengths of paper awkward.

For a paper with no drop I feel that the formula:

• /2 + is correct.

And for a paper with a drop:

• /2 + + .

How ever there might be more wasteage than absolutely nescessary with the second formula.

Is there a known formula that given the three variables allows you just to cut, stick 'n trim?

[Chris J Dixon]

No formula, but another factor to include is that, depending on the relation between drop and pattern repeat (and pattern drop), it can sometimes reduce wastage to be cutting from two rolls alternately.

The hardest matching I ever had to do was with what looked like a sort of random ragged pattern, and I simply couldn't see the repeat. After a few lengths I began to find it, but, of course, the first join was the most visible bit in the whole room. Probably unnoticeable to anybody else though.

Chris

[Dave Liquorice]

I'm not overly fussed about wasteage but having to manually match, mark and cut is a right PITA, see below. I'd much rather have the required number of lengths that I *know* will match and be long enough top/bottom then trim the excess.

Guess what sort of wall paper I'm in the middle of putting up ATM. It's a very nice mottled blue background with little glow in the dark stars in No.1 Sons bedroom. The match is very difficult to spot but if you get it wrong it don't half stand out, you get hard lines where there are *no* hard lines in the pattern at all.

I thought I'd worked out how to find it but I've still managed to get it wrong twice this morning and a couple of times yesterday. Grrr... Fortunately the "wrong" lengths will be useful over the door and window.