Stop wallpaper from taking damage

[ldoodle]

Hiya,

What can I use to permanently protect wallpaper? I have just had to trim off the edge overhang and dropped the knife which has taken a big chunk of wallpaper off.

Bit of a crap design if it can't take minor damage - what happens if you wallpaper a whole room and in 6 months time you get a tear. Can't expect people to strip the whole lot off and start again.

How many homeowners would accept having to demolish a house and rebuild if one brick comes loose.

 

[TheDec]

Wallpaper simply means a paper of which is applied to the wall, if you are going to drop sharp objects such as a trimming knife upon them then you will be more than liable to damage them.

So the best advice with regard to their protection would be to take more care.

Dec

 

[OwainDIYer]

Bit of a crap design if it can't take minor damage - what happens if you wallpaper a whole room and in 6 months time you get a tear. Can't expect people to strip the whole lot off and start again.

No, you'd patch it with the spare roll you kept in the under-stairs cupboard, scraping the edges of the patch really thin on the reverse side.