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54aardvark
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 Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:03 pm Post subject: Sizing |
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When hanging finish paper on top of lining paper, do you routinely size over the lining paper first?
Had a bit of a nightmare papering this week hanging a thin vinyl, edges kept curling up and lifting as they dried, new batch of paste slightly thicker helped a bit then I noticed the place it stuck to best was where the emulsion had overlapped onto the lining paper - I thought logically the L/P needed sealing so I sized the rest of the room and things improved quite a bit.
I've never sized L/P in the past and always had a good result, it could just have been the paste I was using (see my post "New & Improved) but I was just wondering what everyone else does. |
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Telmay
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:11 pm Post subject: |
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Sounds like your paste mate, I have never sized lining, could it also be your paper is just drying out too fast once pasted, or it could just be crappy stuff in the first place 
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54aardvark
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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Papers Vymura and checked paper after its soaking time, judging by the other probs I was having I'm inclined to think it is the paste too.
Going back to my normal paste for Monday - unfortunatley I'm working way out in the wilds (living in a caravan on site during the week) so wasn't too keen to waste 2 hours driving into Aberdeen just for a packet of paste! |
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bobbie-dazzler
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Poor Aardvark, your not having much luck this week. 
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Have Brush Will Travel
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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No need to size lining..as tell says it could be the paper..i have had similar experienes with ordinary paper that has alot of colour on it an is very smooth
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54aardvark
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| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:44 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for all the advice - seemed unlikely, but worth asking.
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| Poor Aardvark, your not having much luck this week. :shock: |
Thats just the half of it! This farm is in the middle of nowhere, fabulous scenery but isolation isn't the word, planning very carefully, but if I run out of anything I lose about 2 hours going into Aberdeen. Don't fancy a 120 mile round trip every day so I'm living on site in my (very elderly circa 1970) caravan. May be pretty, but its not quiet, what with maniac cows giving it yeehah, a very depressed dog who plays with his metal dog bowl all night, the suicidal hedgehog who winds the dog up at 2am, the vampire cats raiding the caravan for sausages at all hours and being hairst time theres tractors and combines working 24/7............. deeeeeeeeep joy!
Got another week there and then start on another farmhouse which is even more isolated, but a least there are no beasts there- this one hasn't been lived in for 22 years but its in relatively good nick considering. budgeted 6 weeks for that but I'll only be up 3 days a week - I tend to go a bit barmy when I'm in this situation so its 12-14 hour days, tin of something, sleep if possible then start all over again - the things you do for friends! |
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