Tacking the spool in place.
If you are working alone you can also use this method., just be careful that you don't damage the border in the tacking process. Use thin tacks, do one hole only in an inconspicuous area of the border. The hole should be so small that you can't see it after the border is installed. Don't tear the border putting the tack in.
Put the tack in the top of the coil not on the bottom or gravity will flop the whole thing to the floor. The littlest of hole that the tack leaves can also be for the most part smoothed out as you continue to install the border. This is the only sensible way for one person to hang border that I am aware of.
Proceed down the wall working your way to the end of the wall. When you reach the end of the wall you will cut the border with about 1/8th of an inch overlapping onto the next wall. I use my plastic smoother as a guide (it is about 1/8th inch thick). Don't "wrap" the corners, simply rolling on from one wall to the next. You will get a pucker at the inside corner if you wrap the inside corners. Cut the corners and start back up on the new wall that way you can realign the border coming out of a crooked corner and your inside corners will lay down tight to the wall.
This is how I turn inside corners. Hang your border up to the end of the wall and wrap it around the wall. Smooth the border down all the way into the corner, then without smoothing down the border at all on the next wall, tack your spool end to that wall leaving some excess bagging or bulging out between the corner and the spool. This will allow you to push the border tight into the corner to make your cut. You will make your cut 1/8th of an inch beyond the corner onto the next wall. By that I mean you are cutting the border 1/8th too long (on the next wall) , do not cut it 1/8th inch too short (1/8th short of the corner).
Begin the new wall the same way that you did the first wall, starting in the corner, position the border into place , smooth down , rinse , tack and move on.
Splicing
When you reach the end of the spool, you will wet / glue a new spool as you did the first. After waiting the proper booking time, you will begin hanging by splicing the new spool with the last spool up on the wall.
Note: if there is a color problem because you have two different runs or batches of spool, you will need to splice back at the last inside corner to hide the color difference between rolls.
Proceeding on if there are no color issues, you will overlap your new roll onto the end of the last and match the pattern up. Once you are overlapped and matched, tack your spool to the wall to free up your hands for double cutting your splice.
Double cutting simply means to cut through two (double) strips of wallcovering at the same time. This is done by overlapping the wallcovering (and sometimes overlapping the pattern too as in this case) for the purpose of obtaining a perfect seam.
Double cutting your seam
With the pattern matched up, overlapped, and smoothed down over each other, using your smoother or straight edge as a guide for your cutting blade, cut through both strips from top to bottom anywhere that they are overlapping. Pull up the off the "overlap" and the "underlap" (I think it will be evident what that is) and you will have a perfectly joined seam.
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