you turn up, open up the first roll.... where do you start cutting? i wallpapered today, and from the first roll i got 4 lengths, but every other i only got three.... the repeat was only 32cm..... what is the best way to calculate?
I'm sure wallpaper manufacturers do that on purpose - they work out the most profitable way (for them) to paper walls of standard height (2.4m) and make you waste lots.
As to where to start - depends on the pattern. With a large pattern repeat, (32 cm is quite large), the eye is drawn to the top of the paper. The bigger the pattern, the more critical it is to have it start in the right place (ie at the top of the wall, don't cut a large flowerhead in half). (What gets cut off at the bottom of the wall by the skirtingboard is less critical).
The bits you waste from one '3 length' roll can usually be used above doors, in window recesses, etc.
This is becoming a proper pain in the butt, alot of manufacturers don't trim off in the same place now and you usually have to chuck the first metre of blown vinyls away because the pattern is squashed (which often means the diff between 3 or 4 drops) Just another example of rip off Britain i suppose and as the average ceiling/coving to skirting drop is 2.2 -2.4 metres beats me why they don't make 12 metre rolls, all the fuss about the 'environmental impact' of paint voc's and we chuck thousands of metres of wallpaper away every year.
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