WALLPAPER INSTALLATION

WALLPAPER INSTALLATION — WHAT ACTUALLY MATTERS

Wallcovering is unforgiving. A wall that hides minor imperfections under a coat of matte paint will show every one of them through a vinyl or a grasscloth, and a seam that is 2mm out of plumb at the ceiling is 20mm out by the time it reaches the floor. P&G Renovation installs and removes wallcovering for commercial and residential clients across the GTA — hotel corridors, office lobbies and boardrooms, healthcare and institutional interiors, restaurant feature walls and residential accent walls — with the wall preparation treated as a separate, costed part of the job rather than an afterthought.

We work with the full range of materials, and each behaves differently. Type II commercial vinyl is the workhorse of hospitality and healthcare — durable, scrubbable and forgiving. Non-woven and paste-the-wall papers are dimensionally stable and by far the easiest to remove later, which is why we recommend them for anyone likely to change their mind. Traditional pre-pasted and paste-the-paper products need controlled booking time so they expand fully before hanging. Grasscloth, silk and natural fibres have no printed repeat and will always show subtle panel-to-panel colour variation, so they need to be sequenced, reverse-hung where appropriate, and handled with clean hands and immediate paste removal. Digitally printed murals are numbered panels with a single correct order and no margin for error.

Preparation determines the result. Old wallcovering is stripped with steam or enzyme solution and the residual adhesive is washed off completely — adhesive left behind reactivates under new paste and telegraphs through. Damaged drywall paper is sealed. Holes and joints are filled and sanded, and where the specification calls for it we skim-coat the wall to a level 5 finish. Every wall is then primed with a dedicated wallcovering primer that seals the substrate, provides slip for positioning and, crucially, allows removal in years to come without destroying the drywall.

Layout is planned before the first strip goes up. We measure the room, calculate the number of drops with the pattern repeat included, decide where the least-visible seam will fall, and strike a plumb line rather than trusting a corner. Pattern matching is verified drop by drop, seams are double-cut or butted depending on material, and edges are rolled without squeezing paste onto the face. Switch plates and outlets are cut precisely, and mismatched paste squeeze-out is wiped immediately, not left to dry on a grasscloth.

For commercial clients we also handle scheduled cycles: hotel floor-by-floor recovering, office refresh programmes, and healthcare corridor wallcovering rated for infection-control cleaning. Order quantities include attic stock so future repairs come from the same dye lot, and we keep product and batch records on file.