How to partially re-stick wallpaper damaged by a cat or a child

There are many ways to make the walls in your home beautiful. Someone putsty and paints, and someone glues wallpaper. Wallpaper can be different: paper, fabric, liquid, non-woven, vinyl and many other types. There are also different price categories, there are budget, medium cost, and there are expensive ones. But no matter how durable they are, everything someday becomes unusable and various defects can appear on the wallpaper, which appear for various reasons. For example, when rearranging furniture in a room, one inaccurate movement is enough and a strip or even a torn off section may appear on beautiful, expensive wallpapers. Also, everyone knows stories with animals, with prolonged contact, even wallpapers of high strength will not resist the sharp claws of a dog or cat. Children, too, can easily cope with wallpaper, you just have to leave the child unattended, he can do anything!

Also, the most elementary problems with the wallpaper can arise due to non-compliance with the rules and regulations when pasting them.

So, what to do if you nevertheless encounter a situation that, for example, a cat or a child tore a large piece of wallpaper? Firstly, you don’t need to be upset, you can easily cope with all the defects if you know how to work with them.

How to fix significant damage

If we are talking about damage to a large area of ​​wallpaper, then you need to remove this piece from the wall. If it is badly torn off the wall, you can use a special tool, or wet the wallpaper with water. Then you need to prepare a patch of the same shape as the torn area and stick it evenly.

Wallpaper repair takes place in several stages:

- It is necessary to cut a patch of their similar wallpaper, as on the wall. If you find that you no longer have such rolls at home, you need to take a torn piece from the wall, as a sample and go to the store building materials and buy the same wallpaper. After, the patch should be cut a little more than the torn area, so that in the future they can be properly docked.

- Then it is necessary to apply glue to the wallpaper, and then to the wall and apply a patch to the wall, combining the pattern, then smooth the workpiece to expel unnecessary air from under it.

-The last action that needs to be done is to cut off the excess part of the wallpaper at the junction in order to remove the overlap and perfectly connect the wallpaper. After the patch has dried, it will be difficult to notice on the wall.