Phew!! thank goodness thats over.

It can make the back of your neck wet. A couple of scaffold boards on beer crates are very useful!

So is this,which I bought last year. :-)

I've found a dry paint roller on a telescopic handle useful for ceiling papering, can be used to quickly flatten the paper against the ceiling, and wedged between the ceiling/wall corner and stepladder to keep one end in place while working at the other end.

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Use lots of paste.

paid.

He's some character. lol

Mind you though items bought out of Lidl,Aldi ave been known to sell just a little bit more if no one was able to get hold of a certain item at the time they where on sale. :-)

I paid 39.99GBP knock down price last year. most odd

My Dad taught me to snap a chalk line on the ceiling, make a "T" piece on the end of a pole, cut a full length of paper, paste it, lay it on the "T" piece concertina fashion and just walk the plank applying the paper, brushing it flat as ye go. then back the other way with the edge roller.

too wet a mix will allow paper to fall from the ceiling as the OP describes.

A friend who was a time served painter and decorator used to love papering ceilings. Always thought that was a bit odd .

Dave

That's not very nice. I wonder what he'd say if you asked him whether it was the Aldi one or not. I also wonder whether he's related at all to the ID "icemanmatt"...

But all that takes so much trouble ... Can't be bothered doing all that ...

Well, you and I might but it sounds far more demanding than it is, dunnit?

Mary

Con man,have you seen his own feed back. pmsl

So true! I wouldn't dream of doing it these days. If you don't like the look of the ceiling, don't look up, is my attitude.

As much as I would have liked to plaster it...me back is not up to skimming ceilings. :-(

Must have been the hard graft over the years.

Once done it's done. It's not picked at by grandchildren or drawn on by other grandchildren. It can be painted.

Or it can be ignored.

We did ours many years ago, end of story.

Mary

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Certainly does! As does not allowing the paper to have a really good soak.

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Tell you what I can't stand...swirly Artex. I don't mind the slightly stippled look - where the bumps aren't pointy and not more than about

Damn right. There comes a time when the only relevant d-i-y that remains, is breathing. :-)

Some people's ceiling story is a serial.