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VIDEOS INCLUDED
IN SECTION THREE
Tape Seventeen
Repairing holes in drywall. A fast, easy, CHEAP, way to repair holes in drywall.
Railroading wallcovering.
How to tell if you can railroad your wallcovering when you are hanging the balance of the room vertically.
Railroading wallcovering demo
Troubles? Analyze! How to troubleshoot a job. The ASPA troubleshooting book.
Keeping business records.
What is necessary to keep to sustain deductions for the IRS.
How to keep those records.
Who should do your bookkeeping.
Tape Eighteen
Engineering ceilings for the installation of wallcoverings:
Matching all four walls?
Splitting off for the crown molding:
How to set up to hang, when you have partitions in your ceiling
Setting up a 3-4-5 system on a ceiling:
Pasting long cuts of wallcovering.
How to set the cuts up on the table so they paste and fold easily.
A discussion of equipment you need: Stilts, Renting equipment
Striking a string line on a ceiling:
Getting accustomed to a walkboard
Hanging the first sheet of wallcovering on the ceiling
Hanging demonstration in slow motion:
Pasting another long cut
Walkboard placement
Hanging your second sheet
How fast you can hang a full roll of wallcovering on a ceiling
Working around a light fixture
Working off of stilts demonstration
Hanging around a chandelier
Tape Nineteen
Pattern Placement in stairwells
Placing a ladder on a stairwell
Setting up walkboards in stairwells
Safety rules for walkboards
Stairwell rigs for complicated areas
Using a "ladder standoff"
Striking level lines on a stairwel
Cutting points when hanging stairwells. A discussion of ceiling lines
Diagram showing different ceiling lines and how they effect cutting points.
Putting dropcloths in a stairwell
Planning the hanging of a dormer
Pattern placement in stairwells
Explanation of cutting points
Demonstration of ceiling lines.
Geometric hanging -- an explanation:
Explaining the difficulty of installation in old homes:
Planning the hanging first side wall:
First side wall hung plumb:
How we hang the paper out of plumb to match the out of plumb wall
Coloring in with a magic marker or inks
More Doublecutting tricks
Making the paper wider at the bottom:
Our crooked back wall hung straight and plumb
Our crooked back wall hung with a 3-4-5 system
Again more doublecutting tricks
Straightening up a pattern in a header
Adjusting a bias geometric
Tape Twenty
Explanation of grasscloths
Why we shade grasscloth
Arcs in grasscloth
Reversing cuts in grasscloth
The reversing process -- marking our cuts
Doing an inside corner split in grasscloth, matching grasscloth
Grasscloth hanging errors
Over soaking grasscloth.
Mismatching corners.
How grasscloth is not always a cover up
Grasscloth removal
Introduction to strings
Doing a wet test with strings
Hanging strings
Tape Twenty-One
Mistrimmed pretrimmed wallcoverings
Touching up mistrimmed wallcoverings
Trim lines set too deep on handprints
Broken and flagged rolls
Repairing holes in grasscloth
A doublecut patch
Feather patch
Making and using touch up adhesive
Tape Twenty-Two
Hanging Archways. Installing the first sheet on the archway.
Installing the 2nd sheet on an arch.
Hanging wallcovering in tight places
Installing the facer piece
Finishing up the archway
Why cased openings seem difficult to install
Hanging the first sheet in a casing
The same sheet again -- except shorter doing a fake out STYLE cut
The other side of the casing:
Engineering for a casing.
The finished casing and using corner guards.
What paper saving is, and where you can use it when hanging straight match wallcoverings.
Using paper saving techniques with drop match wallcoverings
Paper saving with grasscloth.
Commercial vinyl
Paste machines.
Reading blueprints. How to specify from plans.
Setting up wide tables.
A roller to hold commercial vinyls
Warming Cuts
Tape Twenty-Three
Common customer misunder-standings in estimating wallpaper
Why we have double or triple rolls
Questions to ask your customer.
Customer fill in the blank sheet.
Essential information for an estimate
Doing an estimate.
Measuring a stairwell
Estimating for yard goods
Changing from a yard goods estimate to a roll goods estimate
Changing from an estimate to a contract price.
Tape Twenty-Four
Measuring and estimating cathedral ceilings and stairwells
Changing from yard goods estimate to contract yards
Changing from roll goods to yard goods
The installation of photo murals. What they are, how they work, and how to install them.
All about panel murals, including handpainted murals
Hanging a mural -- Placement.
Trimming a mural
Installation of a mural -- a demo.
Ink causes wrinkles in the mural. The solution to the problem.
Tape Twenty-Five
Visit to a wallcovering printing factory. This includes a look at handscreening and rotary screening.
The trimmer, an explanation of the trimmer, and why we use one instead of a razor blade.
How to adjust your trimmer.
Trim markers on untrimmed wallcoverings.
Removing the selvege with a trimmer.
Installation of an untrimmed handscreen:
"Oiling" your straightedge
Specifying quantities of wallcoverings.
Finding the screen repeat - an explanation of join lines
A demonstration of what happens when you don't match on join lines
Pretrimmed handscreens -- recognizing the screen repeat
Examples of pretrimmed handscreens -- recognizing the screen repeat
How your jewelry can mark wallcovering
Examples: pretrimmed handscreens
Printing with a block printer:
Tape Twenty-Six
Dry hanging -- mylars and foils.
Selecting dry method
Prep work for mylars
Cutting down mylars and foils, getting the curl out
Putting on the adhesive for dry method work.
Doing splits with mylars and foils.
Installing the split -- working adhesive in the corners
The third sheet, seaming techniques
Mylars and foils ---- the differences! Installation of a foil
Installation of a solid surface mylar (no ink).
The differences in prep work needed.
Why we don't cover switchplates in foils
Trimming untrimmed mylars and foils
Patching and repairing a foil
Installing Lincrusta. What it is, how it is sold, some examples
Soaking the back, trimming lincrusta
Bevel Cutting the edges
Demonstration of the installation of Lincrusta
Finishing up the job, removing nails, chalking
Tape Twenty-Seven
Installing Anaglypta -- what it is, hanging the first sheet
Installation of the second sheet, trimming and seaming
Suede Installation Cutting down suede, the nap in suede
Installation of suede, hanging the first sheet, working suede in corners
Installation of the second sheet, how to seam, double cutting suede
Removing Paste from suede.
Seaming corduroy suede.
Installation of velour cloth -- wet/ dry hanging
Graphics -- explanation of graphics, Installation of a graphic
Double cutting in a graphic.
Photos of graphics:
Student produced video installation of Victorian graphics
Box miter-- Diagrams. Types of wallcovering that can be used
Striking off the wall:
Demonstration of hanging the miter
Marking off miter points -- flashing.
Double cutting in the miter
Demonstration of some graphics done by the students at school
Tape Twenty-Eight
Installing Fabrics
Fabric printed out of square
Fabric protection
Matching fabrics.
Cutting down fabrics
When to have fabric paper backed.
Putting adhesives on the wall for fabrics
Installation of fabrics -- 1st sheet
How to paste for the second sheet. Installation of second sheet, seaming fabrics.
Installation of the third sheet, brushing tips, pattern placement
Preparation for hanging long cuts of fabric
Seaming tips for fabrics.
Fixing bubbles in fabrics.
Hanging Bedsheets: Getting the sheet prepared
Matching the pattern
Folding bedsheets for hanging as wallcovering.
Installing bedsheets.
The installation of silks. Different types of silks
Preparing for installation.
Installation of a silk.
Installation of a hand embroidery silk fabric.
Conclusion of the course....
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