How to Install Vinyl Wall Covering?

What is vinyl wall covering

Vinyl wall covering can be called vinyl wall protection; normally it is made by heterogeneous structure, while sometimes with homogeneous structure; but with thinner thickness. It will have all the functions that vinyl sheet have, but lower spec in all aspects cause there is less traffic than flooring on it and the main function is to protect the wall from scratch, dirty, damp and bacterial environment. This is the perfect choice for hospital and school. Especially it can be custom printed with stylish patterns

When we look at the advantages of sheet vinyl wall covering, it is very easy to understand the value of vinyl wall covering installation; but still there are many people who don’t know how to install the sheet vinyl wall covering.

In this article we will talk about how to install vinyl wall covering. 

 It’s an in-depth article that takes 20 minutes to read.

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How to Install Vinyl Wall Covering?

1) Building requirements before vinyl wall covering installation

  1. Ceiling works have been completed, including fire fighting, lighting and wall wiring of computer and telephone lines.
  2. Before entering the site for construction, the site must be clean and other types of work must be evacuated from the site.
  3. The indoor temperature and wall temperature should be 15 ° C. construction cannot be carried out below 15 ° C or above 30 ° C

The air temperature shall be maintained at 20-70%.

2) Tool preparation

  1. Floor treatment: surface humidity tester, surface hardness tester, floor grinder, high-power industrial vacuum cleaner, wool drum, self leveling mixer, 30L self leveling mixing bucket, self leveling tooth scraper, spiked shoes and self leveling vent cylinder.
  1. Floor laying: floor trimmer, cutter, two meter steel ruler, glue scraper, steel pressing roller, slotting machine, welding gun, monthly cutter, electrode leveler and combined scriber.

As the sheet vinyl flooring installation project is relatively professional, a fixed professional team is used for construction and installation.

1 PVC wall covering wall protection installation tools

3) Wall pretreatment of installation

  1. The wall must be hard; free of grease, sand, shelling; pitting, cracks and other phenomena. The base course should be flat, dry, firm, free from dirt, etc.
  2. The wall surface must be fully scraped and leveled with exterior wall waterproof putty (or it can be fully scraped and leveled with white cement and white emulsion to increase the surface strength and facilitate bonding.
  3. If the wall surface with interior wall coating has been used, it is soft and easy to be pasted directly. In order to improve the construction efficiency and save the construction cost, on the basis of not damaging the original wall, it is necessary to apply and scrape the interface agent on the surface of the base course, less twice, to improve the hardness of the original wall.
sheet vinyl wall covering wall protection 1
  1. On the leveled wall, the undulating wall must be polished with a grinder or sandpaper to improve the pasting quality fatness of surface.
sheet vinyl wall covering wall protection 1
sheet vinyl wall covering wall protection 1
  1. Air dry the leveled wall naturally or quickly by heating to make the whole wall contain water

The rate shall not exceed 5%.

  1. The polished wall must be completely sucked by a vacuum cleaner, and the wall must be removed small particles on the surface.
  2. The internal and external corners of the constructed wall shall be straight, and the uneven corners will bring some difficulty to the laying

Before installation, the uneven internal and external corners must be treated, and the uneven internal corners must be entered with hard triangular strips Row filling correction. After laying, the external corner shall be better installed with anti-collision corner protection reinforcement to improve the overall beauty.

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Flat dry and clean wall ready to install wall covering

4) Measurement and cutting of sheet vinyl wall covering.

Before installation, we will need to measure the wall carefully before installation, and then cut the wall covering in correct size to fit.

Based on the principle of reducing waste, the required ruler shall be cut as required by taking into account the aesthetic degree through field measurement Inch, give play to greater economic benefits.

Operating points: 1. Cutting materials must be in the charge of a specially assigned person. 2. The damage during transportation shall be cut off with a trimming device before cutting. 3. There are directional arrows at the back and bottom of the wall covering, and its directivity must be paid attention to at all times. 4. For each cutting, accurate data must be obtained from the site. For each cutting, it must be noted that a margin of 1-2cm must be reserved between the cutting and the cutting.

vinyl Flooring laying - cutting

5) Paving.

  1. There are two paving methods: one is horizontal paving and the other is vertical paving.
  1. When paving, follow the correct piece of wall covering you just cut, and make sure it will be in the correct position.
  1. Please pop up the connecting line on the wall meter according to the measured size.
  1. During gluing, the whole gluing surface can be thinly coated evenly with a roller or a shallow tooth scraper

And the pasted surface, wait for 10-20 minutes to volatilize the solvent in the colloid, and after contacting the pasted surface without sticking hands, turn Stick the two surfaces together, connect the adhesive and press it together with force. When pressing, use a softwood block or roller from the center to the bottom. Drive away the air in all directions until it is completely bonded. 

sheet vinyl wall covering wall protection 4 gluing
  1. Cutting: Wall covering overlapping part shall be cut off with scriber or joint cutter (overlapping cutting of joint part). The joint should feel seamless, and then compact the wall and joint with a small roller.
sheet vinyl wall covering wall protection 5 cutting
sheet vinyl wall covering wall protection 5 cutting

6. Slotting

The slotting must be carried out after the glue is completely cured. Use a special slotter to slot along the joint. In order to ensure firm welding, the slot shall not be transparent. It is recommended that the slotting depth is 2 / 3 of the floor thickness.

At the end where the slit cannot be cut, please use the manual slit to slit with the same depth and width.

Before welding, the residual dust and debris in the groove must be removed.

sheet vinyl wall covering wall protection 5 slotting

7. Welding

Manual welding gun or automatic welding equipment can be selected for welding.

The temperature of the welding gun shall be set at about 350 degrees.

Squeeze the welding rod into the opened groove at an appropriate welding speed (to ensure the melting of the welding rod).

When the welding rod is half cooled, the part of the welding rod higher than the floor plane shall be roughly cut off with the welding rod leveler or month cutter.

When the welding rod is completely cooled, the remaining convex part of the welding rod shall be cut off with the welding rod leveler or month cutter.

sheet vinyl wall covering wall protection 5 welding

6. Cleaning

After the construction and installation is completed, the excess glue on the wall plastic surface shall be cleaned immediately with a wet and clean sponge cloth wipe it off.

It will be ready to use after 48 hours.

Heterogeneous sheet vinyl pvc wall covering vinyl sheet for hospital

Extrea video sources on vinyl wall covering

Actually there are many videos in Youtube on how to install vinyl wall covering. 

Even though mostly are for decoration thin vinyl sheet, but some are for this hygienic vinyl vall covering. Such as Gerflor videos. 

Wall Covering Horizontal - Glued installation
Wall Covering Vertical - Glued installation

This article is written by Longda Flooring (www.longdaflooring.com), a leading vinyl sheet flooring manufacturer from China. 

Please contact Longda flooring for a free quote on your vinyl flooring needs. We have quick response, efficient communication, quality products, on time delivery, and competitive price.

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