I’ve been reading Deryn’s posting of 4th March with interest. Re- Sealing a wall for papering and I was particularly interested in the part regarding sizing a wall with watered down wallpaper paste. I’m about to undertake a similar task myself except in my case the surface is plasterboard and I have never done this before.
My question is what should the consistency of a wallpaper paste size look like?
The bigger story here is that I have a small narrow and rather boring but necessary timber framed partition wall with plasterboard infill’s separating an entrance lobby from an office and I wish to turn the face of this wall into something more visually stimulating.
I’ve recently acquired a set of twenty rather beautiful old coloured prints with a medieval religious theme each about A3 size and I’m having these professionally copied onto a thicker almost card type paper. The plan is to turn this rather boring plasterboard wall into a type of polyptych panel painting by pasting the copied prints onto the plasterboard complete with gilt paste over red oxide timber framing around each image.
The timber picture framing is all up fixed and decorated and so I now have twenty bare plasterboard panels ready to take the prints. I just need to size each plaster board panel before pasting the prints on and for this purpose I’ve got myself a three sachet pack of Solvite Extra strong all purpose wallpaper adhesive which happened to be on special offer. Unfortunately each sachet creates enough paste for ten rolls of wallpaper and the mixing instructions only give the quantities of water required for one hole sachet to make either a normal wallpaper paste, a heavy wallpaper paste or a size.
Resorting to a calculator and measuring out quantities of paste granules with a set of scales, I have tried to mix up a small quantity of size but this appears to be quite thick and gloopy. Could anybody advise what consistency I should be looking for?
My question is what should the consistency of a wallpaper paste size look like?
The bigger story here is that I have a small narrow and rather boring but necessary timber framed partition wall with plasterboard infill’s separating an entrance lobby from an office and I wish to turn the face of this wall into something more visually stimulating.
I’ve recently acquired a set of twenty rather beautiful old coloured prints with a medieval religious theme each about A3 size and I’m having these professionally copied onto a thicker almost card type paper. The plan is to turn this rather boring plasterboard wall into a type of polyptych panel painting by pasting the copied prints onto the plasterboard complete with gilt paste over red oxide timber framing around each image.
The timber picture framing is all up fixed and decorated and so I now have twenty bare plasterboard panels ready to take the prints. I just need to size each plaster board panel before pasting the prints on and for this purpose I’ve got myself a three sachet pack of Solvite Extra strong all purpose wallpaper adhesive which happened to be on special offer. Unfortunately each sachet creates enough paste for ten rolls of wallpaper and the mixing instructions only give the quantities of water required for one hole sachet to make either a normal wallpaper paste, a heavy wallpaper paste or a size.
Resorting to a calculator and measuring out quantities of paste granules with a set of scales, I have tried to mix up a small quantity of size but this appears to be quite thick and gloopy. Could anybody advise what consistency I should be looking for?