Use PVC as a wall covering

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If you are looking for an easy-care wall covering, PVC could be the right one for you. You can easily clean a PVC wall covering and laying it is no feat either.

Apply a PVC wall covering.
Apply a PVC wall covering. © Dieter_Schütz / Pixelio

What you need:

  • Grinding machine
  • Sandpaper
  • Paint roller
  • Deep bottom
  • Spirit level
  • Tape measure
  • Rope
  • paint brush
  • Special PVC glue
  • Jigsaw
  • safety goggles

Prepare the wall for PVC wall covering

PVC are available in large rolls for laying or as strips such as Laminate. For both types of wall covering, you should first use the Underground prepare properly.

  1. Before you can stick your PVC strips on, you should first remove your rough plaster from the wall of the room. For this purpose, you can sand over your wall with a sanding machine and suitable sandpaper until you get a fine, straight surface. Measure with the spirit level so that you can see exactly whether the wall is really straight.
  2. Now that the wall is straight, paint the wall with a special deep primer for PVC wall covering. The deep primer should soak in properly for at least 12 hours. Now you can measure your wall exactly to know how many square meters of PVC strips to buy at your trusted hardware store. Then you should define a reference edge at the beginning of your wall.
  3. So take a rope and make an exactly straight line one centimeter from the beginning of the wall. Then glue the first row to this line with PVC strips as a wall covering.

How to glue the PVC strips on

  1. After you have attached the reference edge for your PVC wall covering, apply the special adhesive for PVC. Before you glue the first strips along the edge of your cover, you should first wait 5 minutes. Then you start gluing from the bottom up.
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  2. To brush Always apply the special adhesive for two or three rows, glue the PVC strips and then paint again for the next two to three rows. If you have to cut off the PVC strips on the last piece, you can glue the rest back in at the bottom first. Always try to work staggered.
  3. Now glue a piece of PVC wall covering over the other piece and row by row until the wall is completely taped with PVC. After the wall covering is hanging, you should wait two days before you hang up the first picture, because that is how long it takes the PVC strips to set properly.

At the ribbons you should use protective glasses.

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