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This web page shows a difficult job in progress, and it
also gives me a chance to try the Photo Stitch feature
of Canon Power Shot A60 that I just bought. The job involves
hanging a Schumacher Bamboo grasscloth in a bar area of
a basement that's being refinished. The original paperhanger
bailed out of the job when he realized that the material
wasn't just grasscloth, but was actually horizontal strips
of bamboo woven onto a reddish paper backing. He had simply
primed bare drywall with R-35, tried to hang one sheet
with Roman's 838, and then -- get this -- called Schumacher
to see if they would accept the unused material as a return
and tried to talk the customer into selecting a similar
paper that would be easier to hang. ??!?!?!?!??!?!??!!
Best Paperhanging to the rescue. We mapped out the
sheets, striped the walls with flat color, then went over
it all with Shieldz Clear. The factory edges were good
enough to use, but the stuff was a bear to trim in corners
and around obstacles. We actually went so far as to unfasten
the upper cabinet bridge from the wall so that we could
slide the material in behind the crown rail, rather than
have to trim to the ogee curve. It's just an 8-roll job,
but it took two of us all day to hang it.
"Sometimes the light's all shining on me, other times I can barely see,
Lately it occurs to me, what a long strange trip it's been."
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