advice needed on an alternative to wallpaper?

[Mark Richardson]

Hi Stuart hope your well.

I’ve done a fair bit of internal wall wraps over the years and personally I’ve found a polymeric print media with matt laminate to be best as long as the wall is smooth and you apply PVA to the wall before.

Hope this helps

[Stuart Drynan]

Hi mark 🙂

Would the 3M stuff be ok then? its pretty grabby to say the least 🙂

I would have thought it would have been good enough to stick to the wall.. Its smooth and painted…

[Mark Richardson]

3M should be ok even though the wall is painted I would put a coat of PVA on it

[Stuart Drynan]

okdoki….

I will let her know 🙂

When previously doing this i done a 50/50 mix with water / PVA..

any need to do this with vinyl?

It was about 4 years ago mind so my memory aint that good ha ha..

[Mark Richardson]

50/50 would be more than enough

[Stuart Drynan]

good 🙂

cheers for confirming what i kinda already knew ha ha.

Will need to get started on a design for her as soon as she gives me all 3000 pictures!

I really dont want to do this but how do you tell your mother-in-law no, when she already cant stand you 🙂

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[Robert Lambie]

quote Stuart Drynan:

how do you tell your mother-in-law no, when she already cant stand you

Just say NO then, she can only hate you a little more, maybe spit in your tea once or twice, but you at least get out of it. 😉

[Stuart Drynan]

Ha ha

wish i could say no… i have a very bad habit of always saying yes 🙂

We dont get on at the best of times but since her mother passed away in jan she has been making more of an effort… Ema has asked me to do it so if i say no to her my life will be hell 🙂

Its all those pictures tho…. 3000? really……
Im going to at this for a while i think 🙂

On the wallpaper idea… Whats your thoughts on the textured stuff RH sells?

I was thinking about trying something for my lil boys wall (he loves his papas mrk 1 mexico car) but im unsure of the material as i have never used it.. Would it require a overlap o be fit like normal wallpaper?

[Robert Lambie]

I cant use wallpaper with paste, so im out on any kind that requires paste.

best wallpaper i have found is by Muraspec and is self adhesive backed.
prints great, applies and re-applies like a dream!
however, they had a bad batch and took it off the market last year. i beleive its coming back very soon though. Muraspec do tons of wall coverings and very reputable.

ive just done our office using Neschen adhesive backed wallpaper. printed and fitted very well. its thick so hides wall imperfections.
i dont know if its a downside or not because i never allowed it to out gas long enough, but found it very difficult to remove from the carrying paper. but other than that, it was great.

Neschen do another thats well priced, easy fitted and is 54inch wide, its called easy-dot i think. thing is, i am sure its short term. 12 months maybe…

Thing i have found with decent wallpaper is that its narrow and expensive in comparison to vinyl. i never could work that out as i would have thought vinyl much more expensive to manufacture, but what do i know… 😕 :lol1:

applying vinyl with a matt laminate will work, but you will get "one hit" at applying and if you try lifting it you will probably life emulsion, wall fibres, or paper from plasterboard. its a hard call to advise on. I have used it myself without problems. but just takes the one mistake to buggar the whole thing.

[Martin Pearson]

Who’s fitting it because if they have no experience of fitting vinyl then you know who will get the blame if they have problems or are you planning to fit as well as design & print??

Wonder how many million different combinations of " What does it look like if you move that picture there??" You could get with 3000 pictures, by the time the design is finished you may have spent quite a bit more time with the Mother in Law lol.

[Robert Lambie]

agreed…

i think you should just take one picture of the mother in law, make it full size of wall and print it. once she walks in and sees it, just say… "your gorgeous and i wanted to share your looks with everyone that enters the room".
that should get you to the top of her Christmas card list! 😕

or if you really have time to burn….

make every picture a "PIXEL" and create a big picture of her…
i bet after that she stops gobbing in your tea! 😉

[Harry Cleary]

You don’t see eye to eye with the mother-in-law Rob?

*That’s not a height joke either! 😀

[Robert Lambie]

:lol1: I actually get on great with my inlaws…

than again, their whole house is done in digi-wallpaper. 😉

[Harry Cleary]

quote Robert Lambie:

:lol1: I actually get on great with my inlaws…

than again, their whole house is done in digi-wallpaper. 😉

I must get a printer ……or a divorce….decisions, decisions! 😀

[Robert Lambie]

:lol1:

[Phill Fenton]

I have a plan that could get you out of this and make some cash at the same time 😀

Explain to your mother in law that under latest EU directives, digitally printed wallpaper are classified as signs and if fitted to a building will require local authority planning permission. Being a kind and helpful son in law, you are more than happy to deal with the complexities of the planning application and will make an application on her behalf after explaining that the "money grabbing" local council charge £250 squids for the dubious privelege. 🙄

3 months later (after pocketing the cash) gently break the news that the rogues at the council have turned down her application on the grounds of "bad taste" 😕

Meanwhile, you’re 250 squids better off, you’ve got out of having to do the damn job, and mother in law is none the wiser. Everyone wins 😉

[Stuart Drynan]

Ha ha ha ha well you guys deff made me chuckle this morn 🙂

It will be me fitting it… :/

Im not to worried about fitting it tbh as it should just be the same as fitting a lorry. seeing as im now seem to be contracted to do 4 a week for the rest of my natural life 🙂

I will look into some of the materials suggested although i feel it will eventually come down to cost, and being a border’ i can guess what way this will go..

So its vinyl and matt lam then eh 🙂