{"id":889,"date":"2012-06-17T17:19:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T17:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/?p=889"},"modified":"2012-06-17T17:21:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T17:21:32","slug":"painting-relief-wallpapers-and-wallcoverings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/painting-relief-wallpapers-and-wallcoverings\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting relief wallpapers and wallcoverings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WALLCOVERINGS &#038; WALLPAPERS <\/p>\n<p>Relief wallcoverings can be painted using a brush or roller. The first coat should always be an emulsion paint but you can, if you wish, follow this up with a coat of solvent-based paint. <\/p>\n<p>The exception is Lincrusta which should always be painted with a solvent-based paint or, if a wood, effect is wanted, it can be treated with &#8216;5 scumble, a thin oil-based covering which gives a &#8216;grainy&#8217; effect. <\/p>\n<p>TIP: FLATTEN AIR BUBBLES<br \/>\nThe painting process will show up any air bubbles trapped behind the paper. As the paint dries the air bubble will probably flatten again but if this does not happen: use a razor blade to make two careful cuts diagonally across the bubble<br \/>\n\u2022 push more adhesive under each flap and press the paper back<br \/>\n\u2022 wipe off excess paste from the paper surface, allow to dry and then repaint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WALLCOVERINGS &#038; WALLPAPERS Relief wallcoverings can be painted using a brush or roller. The first coat should always be an emulsion paint but you can, if you wish, follow this up with a coat of solvent-based paint. The exception is Lincrusta which should always be painted with a solvent-based paint or, if a wood, effect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":899,"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}