HANGING WALLPAPER Number of Rolls Required. A single roll of ordinary wallpaper is eighteen yards long by eighteen inches wide; and a single roll of ingrain, felt, or cartridge paper is eight yards long by thirty inches wide. A single roll of one-strip border is eight yards long by eighteen inches wide, and contains eight yards of border. A single roll of two-strip border is the same length and width, and contains sixteen yards of bor der. Common wallpaper is put up in double rolls; and ingrain, felt, or cartridge paper is put up in triple rolls. Prices are quoted on single rolls.
To determine the quantity of paper required to cover a room, multiply the height of the room by the length of the four sides and divide by 36, which will give the number of single rolls re quired. For each single roll of common paper, yards of border will be necessary.
For ingrain, felt, or cartridge paper, multi ply tne height of the room by the length of the four sides, and divide by 40, which will give the number of single rolls required.
Multiply the length of the ceiling by the width, and divide by 36 for common paper, and by 9 for ingrain, felt, or cartridge paper, to ob tain the quantity of single rolls required to cover the ceiling.
Importance of Cleanliness. The principal qualifications required for paperhanging are cleanliness and a proper regard for the fitness of things. Often birds, fruit, and large floral de signs are seen cut through ruthlessly, when by a little forethought on the part of the paperhanger this might have been avoided. Of course, some papers are printed so that it is impossible to avoid cutting through some prominent design, hut it will be found that in the majority of cases a little care and study of the pattern is all that is needed to avoid, for instance, an array of birds' heads all around the top of the dado border ap parently peeping over, while the panels in the dado are cut right through the center of a vase of flowers or bunch of fruit, thereby spoiling the effect of the whole room.
The necessity of cleanliness must be im pressed on the worker. Keep a cloth handy,
and every time the paste-board is empty wipe it down before using again. Never let the cuttings flutter away anywhere; double them up together, so that they cannot stick to anything when they are dropped. If any paste gets on the woodwork sponge it off at once. Paste acts like soda on new paint or varnish. The remarks made in this chapter as regards the general working are not to be taken as hard-and-fast rules. The worker will himself discover many tricks in the course of his work. Look at the room to be papered, and see which is the best method of working, and the best place for the breaks, etc. Do not start blindly, and discover, when half way through, that the work could have been done in a better way.
The paper, it is supposed, has a small running pattern, so that the room will not require cen tering, As a rule, paper is hung according to the most prominent lights, so that in working away from the windows the joints are not so noticeable. Take a roll of paper, and see how many widths are required to go round the room. From the left of the window to the door requires, say, six; from the right to the fireplace, five; over the mantelpiece three short lengths; from the mantelpiece to the door, ten; that is, twenty one full lengths in all. Do not run up the steps with a roll of paper to measure the length, hut measure with the straight-edge from the ceiling to the top of the skirting board.