Wallpapering in Wednesbury: feature walls, full rooms, lining paper and stripping. Patterns matched, seams flat, walls prepared first.
On Wednesbury plaster, which is old and rarely flat, lining is usually not optional. Paper hung straight onto a wall like that shows every hollow behind it within a month, whatever it cost a roll.
The knocked-through rooms Wednesbury has so many of are a particular problem for wallpaper. Where the old wall came out, the plaster either side is a different age and a different flatness, and a paper hung across that line will show exactly where the wall used to be.
On the older Wednesbury plaster, almost always. It costs a little more and it is the difference between paper that lies flat and paper that maps every hollow in the wall.
Yes, and we price it in. Stripping is unpredictable, so it belongs in the quote rather than in a surprise later.
Half a day once the wall is prepared. With stripping and lining first, allow a day and a half.
Not if it is dealt with first. The old line is filled and sanded flat, then the whole wall is lined so the paper sits on one even surface. Skip that and the join shows the first time the light comes across it.
Yes. The usual choice is paper below the rail and paint above, which suits the higher ceilings in the older Wednesbury houses. The pattern is set out from the rail so it looks level even where the ceiling is not.
The state of the wall more than the size of it. Stripping, lining, a knocked-through join to flatten and a big pattern repeat all take longer. Send a photo of the room and the paper, and the price follows.
Old paper off, walls washed down, filled and sized.
On old Wednesbury plaster it usually is. It is what makes the difference between flat and lumpy.
Drops planned so the pattern runs true across corners and around the chimney breast.
One wall done well is often all a room needs, at a fraction of the full cost.
The old join is made flat and lined before papering, so the line where two rooms became one disappears rather than showing through.
Papered below the rail with paint above, or the other way round, and set out so the pattern lines up with the rail rather than a ceiling that is not level.
Send a photo or a quick video of the room on WhatsApp. Or ask for a free fixed quote with no obligation. We will tell you straight what it needs.