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Okay, we've got a little problem here
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What you can see is this. I've got the wallpaper at the top and I've got it done at the bottom and we're going
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to have one solid piece that has to wrap around this window frame
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Now the problem you can get into is that if you were just to draw a plum line here, thinking
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that I'm going to hang this piece plum, well what happens is when you go to hold the paper
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on that line and then you eventually end up down here at the bottom, you either might be overlapping
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that piece or you might be short. That's a nightmare and you can't allow that to happen. So what
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do you do? The paper I'm using on this particular job, it's a traditional pre-pasted wallpaper
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and before it has any activator or water put on it it 27 inches wide But you know what happens when you put the activator or water on Paper expands and it expands dramatically I just didn experiment We measured it
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after it was pasted and you know what? It was 27 and 3 eighths inches. That's a lot
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So here's what I'm going to do. I'm actually going to go down on the wall here and I'm
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going to make a mark at 27.5 because I don't want my paper to be right on the pencil line
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and I'll do the same up at the top. I'll go ahead and make a mark up here, 27.5
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And I'm going to make sure that my paper, that the full, long edge all the way down
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is one-eighth of an inch away from that line. And when I do that, both seams, top and bottom
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should look perfect when I'm finished. I'm Tim Carter for AskTheBuilder.com. You know
