The Complete Guide to Wallpapering |  | Author: David M. Groff
Publisher: Creative Homeowner Pr
Category: Book
Buy Used: $64.59
as of 9/10/2010 00:00 CDT details
Seller: internationalbooks
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 9026541
Media: Paperback
ISBN: 0696025256
Dewey Decimal Number: 645
EAN: 9780696025259
ASIN: 0696025256
Publication Date: September 1993
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Product Description
The art of wallpapering requires skill and knowledge of the tried and true as well as the latest techniques. This book unlocks the many secrets of paperhanging. Complete Guide to Wallpapering is the most comprehensive book on the subject, written by a professional paperhanger who includes every step of every possible installation. Over 200 photos and illustrations and a consumer-friendly text cover selecting tools and supplies, estimating materials, preparing walls, hanging paper, and trouble-shooting wallpaper problems. It is a comprehensive resource for the novice and the professional alike.
Book Description
The art of wallpapering requires skill and knowledge of the tried and true as well as the latest techniques. This book unlocks the many secrets of paperhanging. With sections devoted to tools, wall preparation, estimating, patterns, seams, adhesives, and more, it's a comprehensive resource for the novice and the professional alike. Inside you'll find:
- Complete how-to installations for every room
- The details of wallpaper tools and materials
- Special sidebars with tips from professionals
- A glossary to guide you through professional terms
- Over 60 photographs and 170 illustrations
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 Great book, even for beginners! November 27, 2000
Deborah Moon (Lilburn, GA USA)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
Before I bought this book, I had never done wallpaper at all. The book contains excellent and easy-to-understand instructions and illustrations for all phases of the wallpapering process. My first wallpapering project turned out very well, even though I was a complete novice. I highly recommend this book.
 Complete Guide? uh huh uh huh June 12, 2002
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is deceptive for the homeowner who does not have much experience hanging paper. It is written as if the author may have never hung paper! Some of the descriptions of procedures are absolutely wrong! Some other descriptions are worthlessly inadaquate. I am sorry I wasted my money on this book. A Complete Guide it is NOT!!
Example #1.) It pretends to explain how to cut paper for switchplates. The cut that it illustrates is absolutely WRONG!! Anyone who has done this knows the cuts should be at 45°. The 90° cuts they illustrate would leave wrinkled clumps at the edges.
Example #2.) The complete guide to removing grasscloth paper consists of one paragraph telling us to saturate it and scrape it.
This is totally inadaquate for anyone who has never removed this stuff. The tools should be described, the amount of time, drop cloths, etc..should all be included in this procedure. Anyone starting this procedure by simply doing as they say would be in for a real stressful event.
I say buy a different book!
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