Stanley Wallpaper Edger 4 10 230

Pffft! bought one of these

How does it differ from a normal snap off type knife? The angle maybe?

Cut an X where the wallpaper is level with sockets and light switches then back off the switches/sockets and hide the wallpaper behind the switches/sockets then srew them back to wall. :-)

Take the switches and sockets off, hang the paper, cut around the 'hole' and refit the switches and sockets!

Or, just use the point of the blade!

Amateur - posing as a professional aren't you Dave?

T'o

Interesting. I've always used one of those curved French camping knives and a wall sharpener with a plasterers trowel for the straight edge (I like the big handle!)

Oh dear its that bitter, jealous old fart again...

You can't help being a failure, try to live with it.

You use the bottom edge (blade retracted) to push the paper tightly into the corner, then 'tract' the blade and run the thing along the cut line. The shape of the botom edge holds the paper flat and into the corner while the blade trims it.

It isn't a snap off knife, just uses the technology of a snap off knife. Hard to explain until you use one.

I have a smaller one with a wooden handle but can't remember where I bought it? same again I sharpen it in a knife shapner,once you have it razor shap you just tap into the wallpaper and it cut a real sharp clean cut.

I'll get one. Tearing wet wallpaper has been pissing me off for years

yes, but it *is* the quickest and easiest way.

tis brilliant been using one for years but you need to snap the blades of quite often or it will still tear

No need to take them off, just loosen them and cut a hole a bit smaller than the switch and slide it out through the diagonal, then smooth the paper down and tighten switch.

You brush the paper down, run the back of the scissors along the edge, pull the paper away and trim with scissors and the smooth it down.

Knives are for doing overlap joints not trimming.

Yep, you're right, Dennis, knives are for overlaps. Wallpaper should always be trimmed to carry over the corner.

To each their own method Dennis....after all we are not professional decorators.

I've got a Harris wallpaper cutting guide. Magic if you like dead straight cuts rather than wibbly ones that follow the contours of the skirting top or ceiling. Still need a good sharp knife but it's much better than using just a knife.

Quite cutting around switches/sockets or other removeable/losenable fittings is what a quick in out, cut the as many corners as possible, "professional" or an amateur does. If I employed some one to hang wallpaper and they did that they would be doing it again at their expens= e or I'd only be paying 50% of the quote less the costs in my time (at =A320+/hr) and materials to do it properly.