How to make wallpaper paste at home, cooking methods
In the process of repair, the question often arises: how to make wallpaper glue from scrap materials at home? After all, there are situations when an expensive purchased adhesive composition suddenly runs out, and there is not enough money to buy a new one. You can glue the rest of the wallpaper with homemade glue. It is prepared from products and substances that are in any home.
Benefits of using homemade adhesives
You can make wallpaper paste from whatever is in the kitchen cabinets or pantry. Homemade adhesive cannot be an alternative to a purchased product. Chemical plants produce various types of wallpaper adhesives with significant technical characteristics and improved composition.The purchased adhesive product contains substances that prevent the wallpaper from getting wet in conditions of high humidity, prevent the development of mold and mildew, and have insecticidal properties.
Household glue does not have all these qualities.After all, it is prepared from simple substances, the main property of which is to form a sticky substance during thermal, chemical processing or when mixing various ingredients. True, homemade glue has its own advantages. It is made up of simple and often inexpensive foods. A ready-made composition made at home in the kitchen will be 10 times cheaper than purchased adhesives. A homemade adhesive is being prepared from natural raw materials. This means that such glue can be used in any room, even in a children's room.
Homemade glue adheres perfectly to the surface of light to medium density wallpaper. Over time, when you need to remove the paper from the walls, the dismantling process will not cause particular difficulties.
Basic recipes and instructions
You can make a homemade adhesive from simple products and inexpensive chemicals sold at any drugstore or home improvement store. Preparing homemade glue takes a minimum of money and time.
Flour
Wallpaper glue has been prepared from flour for several decades. Over such a long period, the recipe has been changed and improved more than once. True, the main components of each composition are flour and water.
First of all
The composition of wallpaper flour glue includes the following ingredients:
- 4-5 st. tablespoons of flour;
- 1 liter of liquid.
How to cook:
- pour all the flour into a bowl;
- pour flour with 0.5 liters of cold water and stir;
- pour the remaining 0.5 liters of liquid into a saucepan, put on fire and bring to a boil;
- stir the flour mixture into the hot water in a thin stream;
- mix the composition, then bring to a boil again and remove from heat;
- cool the mass.
Second
An adhesive is prepared from flour according to this recipe:
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of flour;
- 1 liter of water.
How to cook:
- pour the flour into a saucepan;
- pour cold water;
- stir the mass;
- put the saucepan over low heat;
- constantly stirring, bring the floury mass to a boil;
- Remove from heat and let cool.
Third
Flour glue is prepared from the following products:
- 5 tbsp. tablespoons of flour;
- 1 liter of liquid;
- 50ml of PVA glue.
How to cook:
- pour flour with cold water;
- put a saucepan with the mass on the fire;
- simmer until boiling;
- cooling the mass;
- add PVA glue to the cold mixture and mix well.
Starch
Compound:
- 1-3 st. spoons of starch;
- 1 liter of water;
- 45 ml of PVA glue.
You can solder the adhesive like this:
- pour starch with 0.5 l of water at room temperature;
- mix the mass;
- add 0.5 liters of boiling water to the mixture;
- put the mass on fire and bring to a boil;
- Cool the mixture and add the PVA.
AVP
Purchased PVA glue is added in a small amount to a homemade flour or starch adhesive. This additive improves the quality and adhesive characteristics of household glue. You can make your own PVA paste.
Compound:
- 105 g of flour;
- 25 g of ethyl alcohol;
- 5-10 g of photographic gelatin;
- 7 g of glycerin;
- 1 liter of water.
How to cook:
- pour gelatin overnight with 100 ml of water;
- Dissolve the flour in 100 ml of liquid until smooth;
- add 800 ml of water to the gelatinous mass and put the mass in a water bath;
- add powdered mix to hot loose gelatin;
- constantly stirring, bring the mass to a boil;
- remove the mixture from the stove;
- add alcohol and glycerin.
Carpenter
To prepare carpentry dough, you need to buy dry ingredients. Pellets or briquettes are sold at any hardware store. On the packaging they say: a substance for the preparation of wood glue.
The lighter these pellets and briquettes, the better.
Before preparing a homemade dough, the semi-finished product should be ground into a powder, soaked in water at room temperature. Pellets are completely filled with the cooled boiled liquid and left for 11-12 hours. The swollen mass is heated in a water bath, brought to a boil and cooled. For 100 grams of granules take 105 ml of liquid. When preparing the dough in a water bath, hot water is added to the mixture to make the mass more liquid.
Universal paste
For pasting walls with wallpaper, you can make a universal paste from syndeticon. Its recipe appeared at the end of the 19th century. Such glue can replace an expensive commercial product. It is prepared from wood glue (125 g), sugar (125 g), hydrated lime (35 g) and water (495 ml).
First, the sugar is dissolved in the liquid. Then lime is added. The mixture is boiled over low heat for an hour. The clear solution is cooled, pieces of wood glue are poured over it. Then the mass is again boiled in a water bath until the carpenter's glue is completely dissolved. The mixture is constantly stirred and not boiled.
Dextrin based
The paste is based on dextrin. This substance can be ordered online or made from starch yourself. However, a home-made product will not fully have all the qualities of dextrin. But it is suitable for the preparation of an adhesive solution for wallpaper.
Homemade dextrin is prepared like this:
- Pour 100 g of cornstarch on a baking sheet and put in a hot oven;
- the substance is slowly dried for 1.5 hours at a temperature of 70-160 degrees;
- dried yellow starch is poured into 0.5 liters of cold water and quickly stirred;
- add 30 ml of glycerine.
Moisture resistant
At home, you can make an excellent moisture-resistant glue. The composition of such a sticky mass includes wood glue and drying oil (linseed oil). Observe the proportions - 4: 1. A little drying oil is poured into hot wood glue and the mass is thoroughly mixed.
How to improve the products purchased with your own hands
Most often, the wallpaper is glued using inexpensive CMC glue. You can improve its characteristics by adding a little PVA glue to the finished mass. Such repairs will cost more, but the wallpaper will hold up well. Usually, purchased adhesives contain all the necessary components, and there is no point in improving the quality of the finished product.
In hardware stores, adhesives are sold for all types of wallpaper.Paper can be glued with any glue, even flour-based. Vinyl wallpaper is too heavy; PVA was previously added to poor quality glue to increase adhesion. Now you can find in the store special glue for thick wallpaper with increased strength. You can improve the adhesion of a commercial adhesive by reducing the amount of water added.
Common Mistakes
Sometimes, a few days after the repair, the wallpaper begins to swell, move away, fall off. In this case, the glue is not always to blame. Although its quality plays an important role in the repair.Before wallpapering the walls, you need to carefully prepare the surface. It is necessary to remove old paint, lime, all peeling plaster, loose particles. Before gluing the wallpaper, the wall is cleaned of old finishing materials, leveled and must be primed. A commercially available acrylic primer is generally used.
You can prime the walls with an adhesive solution of glue and water. Before wallpapering the walls, the primer must dry.
The glue is spread over the entire surface of the canvas. Make sure no areas are left exposed with the adhesive. Before sticking the wallpaper to the wall, they have time to soak in the adhesive mixture. Immediately after applying the glue to the canvas, you cannot glue it to the wall surface. When renovating, make sure all windows and doors are closed. Any drafts, temperature fluctuations at the stage of drying wallpaper just glued to the wall can lead to disastrous consequences.
Additional tips and tricks
Wallpaper for a children's room or hallway can be glued on homemade flour or starch glue. A composition prepared by yourself can turn yellow over time, so finishing materials are chosen in brown or pastel colors.
For non-woven or vinyl wallpaper, it is better to buy ready-made glue and not experiment with homemade products. After all, such wallpapers are always expensive, they can be easily destroyed by poor-quality adhesive mass.
Homemade glue can be used to glue the walls in the country. True, you must first add a little fungicide or insect repellent to the sticky mass so that fungus and pests do not grow under the wallpaper. True, the toxicity of such an adhesive will increase.
It is better to use ready-made glue with antifungal and antiparasitic additives for repairs. The days of making homemade adhesives are long gone. It was once impossible to buy good glue in a store, so the glue mass was prepared by hand at home using an artisanal method. Today, in any store that sells products for construction and renovation, there is a huge amount of quality adhesives for any type of wallpaper.