Faulty wallpapering job?

[Jim S]

Hi,

Had a flood recently- insurance job- from recommendations i chose a Painter and Decorator to do all the painting etc. To cut the story short, ive noticed on the last job he did (the wallpapering) there are visible lines (like pencil lines)between several of vertical hangs of paper. (The paper is creamish and has no uniform pattern but is meant to look like a paint effect if that helps)

My question: is are there meant to be visible lines in places which you can see easily from about 10ft away, im pretty sure the job is not up to standard, but i want to know if im being picky and if i am right to complain. In a couple of places you can see the gap is over 1mm so i dont think hes butted the paper together with much care.

Is this a common standard for a contractor? Any Comments would be much appeciated.

[Harry Bloomfield]

On 03/03/2004 Jim S opined:-

Most paper I have come across does have a pattern and if it has not been matched properly the joint will be visible.

1mm is rather a lot.... Many papers these days need to be pasted then left for a while before being hung, perhaps it was not allowed time adjust itself properly before hanging.

I would call him back to do the job properly.

[Harry Ziman]

[PoP]

This doesn't sound good enough to me.

Just after we got married (26 years ago....) my wife and I decided to wallpaper our bedroom. I still remember it to this day!

We bought some cheap and cheerful wallpaper (well when you are first married you can't afford very much!), and slapped it on the wall. The next day the wallpaper had shrunk, leaving large gaps like those you suggest. Reason being that this cheap wallpaper was sort of elasticky, and when we smoothed it onto the wall we also managed to stretch it ever so slightly - so when we weren't looking the wallpaper resumed its original shape.

Possibly not the issue you are dealing with, but it's perhaps worth a thought. If the wallpaper is substantial in texture (rather than flimsy) then it's unlikely to have stretched/shrunk and your problem will have been bad application.

PoP

[Soup]

Soup just had to say

Just hung wallpaper in the eldest's room this was meant to have no match but found that there was a match in the apparently random 'design'.