And that's a fact.
Please feel free to share your tips though. We are using solvite ready- made border adhesive, painting it generously onto the wall where the border will go, flattening it out with a credit card, wiping away the excess etc and it still looks like it's been driven over.
The message from Jon contains these words:
Laser level helps if only 'cos you're not having to concentrate so hard on getting it level. You may find the bumps flatten out over the next few days as the adhesive dries.
snipped-for-privacy@zetnet.co.uk declared for all the world to hear...
I asked for a laser level but mother Christmas said "no".
Unless I'm really dense, paste the border not the wall, and flatten out with a big bath-sponge.
Owain
I've always pasted the border but it's a messy business doing the edges and, in long lengths, can be difficult to position. If the wallpaper isn't too absorbent, it might be easier to paste the wall.
I tried it that way and it was even lumpier.
Then mother christmas can't complain if it is wonkey then can she! ;-)
I used a self adhesive border... that was easy!
Why are you using overpriced border adhesive? wallpaper paste is quite adeuate.
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If you get it wrong through you can't move it!
Well I did think of that, but then since it was my first time I thought it best to have the specific tools for the job.
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Didn't work for me sticking a border onto vinyl paper in the kids' bedrooms.
It peels off - its only tacky rather than outright sticky IYSWIM.
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