Hi! I am Jim Tiner, professional paper hanger. Today, we are hanging border. Right now, I am going to give you the formula for estimating for the border that you need to do your own. Every border is standard; it has 15 feet and one single roll of border, no matter how wide it is. With our wallpaper, we knew that different width of wallpaper have different lengths and roll, but borders are standard; 15 feet or 15 is the number we are going to use. We have got our number, we have measured our room, we are going to use that figure, for instance, we have measured our room and it was 54 feet all around the room.
Now we need enough to cover. So we'll take the figure 15 and divide it into 54, we'll come up with 3 plus the remainder and we'll round it up to 4, which will give us 60 feet of border. That should be enough including any mistakes or as we'll see for hanging it around any particular door or window or whatever is necessary, some other things to keep in mind. I want to talk to you a little bit of about problem rooms. Problem rooms are rooms like your bathroom that might have some mildew problems in it. You can still get that room to look like it has wallpaper. You take the old wallpaper down, you clean up those walls, make sure you are washing with some bleaching water, paint the walls, make sure it's completely dry and then install the border of your choice in that room.
When you install border in the bathroom, you can install it at the ceiling, you can install it at the top of the tile, you can install it anywhere you would like, but it will give the effect that there is wallpaper in that room. So that formula gives you a little extra and if you wanted to add a roll, you could always do that because you could always take it back, because it's better to have more than not enough. There is nothing worst than ending up short, when you really want to finish your project. So next, we are going to be examining our border.
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