When carrying out repairs in an apartment or house, a special material is often used - OSB-plate (OSB). It easily hides surface defects, with it it is possible to use different types of finishes. Is it possible to glue wallpaper on the OSB-plate? The answer is yes. This work is not difficult, so you can easily deal with it yourself.
How to stick wallpaper on the OSB-plate correctly, how to process it in order to give an attractive look - all these issues will be discussed later in the article.
Some rules
Due to the characteristics of these plates, it is very important to take into account a number of rules that must be followed when wallpapering.
- Glue can not be applied directly to the plate itself, as it is absorbed and does not adhere the wallpaper.
- Since these panels are piece sheets that are installed on the walls, after installation, there are distances between them. They must be glossed over.
- OSB is a material from shavings glued together. After this surface is glued, stains may appear on the wallpaper - this is glue and resin protrude through the finish. In order to avoid all these troubles, you need to follow all the rules that will be discussed in this article.
How to glue wallpaper on an OSB plate without putty
This is the most budgetary way of pasting walls. It is quite simple and does not require large financial investments.
To stick wallpaper on the OSB-plate without putty, you will need such materials and tools:
- sealant;
- grinder and discs;
- Primer "Ceresit 17" or PVA glue;
- water based paint;
- brushes and rollers.
When the slabs are already installed and a certain time has passed for their shrinkage, you can begin to close up all the distances between them.
Work sequence
- First of all, you need to buy a sealant. It is white or transparent. We cover all the distances between the plates, bumps and cracks with this tool.
- If you choose a budget thin wallpaper, you should take the grinder, the corresponding disk and level all surfaces that will then be glued. For vinyl and dense wall-paper of a wall it is enough to just align and clean it well with sandpaper.
- After this work, the primer of the walls follows. For her, you need "Ceresit 17" or PVA glue. It must be mixed with water. For this, one part of the glue and three parts of water are needed. This solution must be primed all the walls. All surfaces with the Cerezit construction compound must be primed two times, and with PVA glue three times. This condition is necessary, since without a primer the wallpaper will not stick to these plates.
- After that, it is necessary to paint the walls with white paint for interior work. Naturally, it should be water-based. If it is thick, you can add water to it.
- After the walls are painted, all walls are primed again. To do this, take the same primers - this is "Ceresit 17" or a solution of PVA glue.
Cons of this method
Sticking wallpaper on an OSB plate without putty has its drawbacks.
- In wooden and frame houses, all corners that are filled with sealant may crack and tear the wallpaper during the deviation of the location of the plates.
- At the next repair, the old wallpaper will be very difficult to remove from the walls. But there is a way out - you can stick new wallpaper on the old surface.
If you understand this method, we can conclude that such a plan of decoration is best suited for household and work objects, change houses, rooms for dispatchers. The correct gluing of wallpaper on the OSB-plate - with putty on all walls.
Wallpapering after puttying the walls
These panels can be decorated with plaster, use liquid wallpaper or apply their color. If the walls are putty, then they can then be finished in any convenient way.
Consider how to glue wallpaper on an OSB plate. First you need to properly prepare the walls.
This type of treatment of OSB boards is most acceptable, because even after applying liquid wallpaper, they can be easily removed and a new coating applied.
What tools are needed
- A spatula is wide 300-500 mm with a long working surface and a narrow 10 or 15 cm. In addition to metal tools, rubber spatulas of small sizes are needed.
- An electric drill and a special nozzle for it, with which you can mix the putty solution.
- A few buckets.
- Fur roller with long handle.
- Stapler and staples.
- Grinding mesh and board.
- Putty (for example, "Knauf").
- Fiberglass reinforcing mesh.
Surface preparation
After all the tools have been prepared, the primer and putty are purchased, you can begin to work.
- First of all, it is necessary to primer all the walls - “Ceresite” twice, and if glue, then in three steps.
- Now you need to cover up all the distances between the plates. To do this, you need to buy a special mixture for OSB sheets.
- Putty should be prepared according to the instructions. Putty putty in the container, fill it with water, stir with a drill with a nozzle.
- Using a rubber spatula, with this putty we close up all the distances, the tops of the screws and cracks.
- After all the gaps and cracks are fixed, you need to take a fiberglass construction mesh and use a stapler to fix it to the wall. It is necessary to sew a grid with a stapler with an interval of 10-15 cm. Work to begin with corners and slopes.
- If, instead of the mesh indicated above, another kind is taken, which is called a spider web, it needs to be glued in addition to fixing with a stapler. This mesh is used as the basis for decorative plaster.
- After the grid is strengthened, in all corners and on slopes, you need to attach corners of metal. They are attached with a stapler.
For reliability, after the entire process of these works is completed, you need to primer the walls on top of the grid.
How to putty walls?
Before gluing the wallpaper on the OSB-plate, the surface is puttyed. For these purposes, a starting putty is required (preferably the Knauf company). After applying the first layer, the further work process is standard, as with all the same jobs.
Using a small spatula, we put the putty out of the container, transfer it to the large spatula, then to the wall. We start work from the corners. After the layer has hardened, we take a wide spatula and remove excess and drops of this mixture from the walls.
After that, we take a grout, grind all the walls, then with a rag we remove all the dust and primer again. Now you can apply another layer of a substance such as satengips. A solution is made from it and applied to the surface of the walls. Then followed by stripping and primer.
Ideally, three layers of putty are applied, each of which is cleaned and primed. After the completion of these works, they begin to glue wallpaper on the OSB-plate. How to do this, we will consider later in the article.
Glue wallpaper
Before you begin, you need to buy wallpaper and glue, prepare all the necessary tools. To do this, you will need:
- container for glue;
- glue and wallpaper;
- rollers - one wide, the second narrow;
- stationery knife and tape measure.
Consider how to paste wallpaper on an OSB plate.
The field of how the glue is prepared in accordance with the instructions from the manufacturer, you need to prepare the wallpaper. They should be rolled out of a roll. Usually this work is done on the floor. Now stripes are measured and cut using a tape measure and a clerical knife.
Before that, you need to measure the distance from the floor to the ceiling - this will be the length of the strip. If a wallpaper needs a selection of a pattern, then in the cutting process, a pattern is first selected, then the desired length is cut.
After the strips are prepared, each is best numbered. This advice is needed if we use wallpaper with the selection of a picture.
Wallpaper on the OSB-plate is glued as follows.
- Apply glue to the strip, then fold it so that it is then convenient to unfold on the wall.
- Using a roller, coat the wall with glue.
- We apply wallpaper to the wall, smooth the entire strip carefully. First, we carry out the roller in the center, then gently expel the air. If somewhere there are bulges in which there is air, we tear off this piece and glue it again, driving the air out.
- All decorations that will be around the switches or under the ceiling are glued after the wallpaper has completely dried.
- If the excess parts remain on the openings of windows and doors, they must be cut off with a clerical knife, with a spatula attached before it. Throw away the excess part of the wallpaper.
- All strips are smeared with glue from the wrong side, then applied to the wall. If the wallpaper is thick, they should lie down for 5 or 10 minutes, until the glue normally saturates them.
- If the strip is cut incorrectly and the extra length is left, after gluing the strip, the extra centimeters are lowered down to the baseboard. Then, using a spatula and a clerical knife, the excess is cut off.
Expert Advice
Consider the recommendations of specialists how to paste wallpaper on the OSB-plate. During the process of gluing walls, there should not be drafts. But even after the entire surface is pasted over, all windows and doors must be left closed. After a day, the wallpaper will dry.
If you do not follow this rule and glue with open windows or leave the wallpaper to dry in a well-ventilated room, then in the morning when you arrive you will see that they are lying on the floor.
How to glue wallpaper on the OSB-plate, if they are dense? Be sure to let them soak in glue for 5 or 10 minutes.
Many people use a roller to expel air during these works, some use a dry soft rag or a plastic soft spatula.
In order for the strips of wallpaper not to disperse over time and not to show the rough finish of the walls, when pasting, a thin strip must be glued between the joints. This tape is sold in hardware stores.
So that the glued corners do not crack and air does not gather under them, one strip is led into a corner so that part of it lies on another wall. The second strip of wallpaper fits tightly in the corner to the junction. It does not need to be wound onto another wall.
Calculation of the required number of wallpapers
Before gluing wallpaper on the OSB-plate, it is worth explaining how to make the correct calculation of the required number of rolls. After all, if you buy less finishing material, then the room will not be fully pasted. We'll have to go to a hardware store, and there may no longer be wallpaper with that pattern, or the tone will be different.
If you bought an extra amount of rolls, you can leave them for all sorts of flaws, but the minus is that they spent extra amounts of money. Therefore, all calculations should be performed correctly.
Billing process
- They calculate the perimeter of the room (this requires the length of all the walls), then measure all the pieces above the windows and doors.
- Now we divide the perimeter of the room by the width of the strip in a roll. This is mainly 50 cm, rarely 53 cm.
- The number of meters in a roll must be divided by the height of the walls to the ceiling. As a result, we obtain the required number of parts from one pack.
- Next, the resulting amount of strips must be divided into strips in a roll. We get the figure, which is the required number of wallpaper rolls per room.
- For wallpapers where the pattern needs to be matched, basically in each roll you get one strip less. Accordingly, if you need 12 strips, this is 3 rolls, since the standard height of the rooms is 2.5 meters, and there are 4 strips in a roll.
Online wallpaper calculation
Correctly calculate these values will help online calculators offered in the public domain, which will accurately and quickly calculate the necessary materials.
In order for the calculator to make a calculation, it is necessary to enter in it accurate data on the sizes of its rooms, the width of the walls, the length of the room, and height. Indicate how many doors are in the room, their length and width, the number of windows, the width and length of each. Then we enter data from the selected wallpaper, the length and width of the roll of wallpaper.
After completing all the fields, the answer will be written in the finished line, how many rolls are needed. For more complex calculations, accurate and complex calculators are used, which are used by designers and builders.
Conclusion
So, we examined how to stick wallpaper on the OSB-plate, whether they are glued without putty, we provided some recommendations from experts. This work is very simple, so you can cope with it without any problems with your own hands.
Thanks to the correct finish of the OSB boards, the glued wallpaper will last long enough and delight the owners with their appearance. In order to avoid any unpleasant defects, use the tips and recommendations specified in this article. And then the repair will bring not only joy, but also pride in the fact that it is made with your own hands and everything turned out qualitatively and beautifully.