Wallpaper seams

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Quick question. Just had some wallpaper put up. Should you be able to see the seams?

Not really, but it can be a bit of an issue with dark wall paper as the 'edge' is white and trying to get two adjacent pieces exactly butting together can be tricky.

No, but I don't know how realistic that always is.

No, certainly not if a professional put it up.

To combat the white edge issue, take a pencil the same colour as the background and colour the light end of each roll before hanging.

Thanks yes it was a professional painter decorator. We haven’t had wallpaper in the house for years and never had it put up ourselves so wasn’t sure. I wondered if it was because it’s so dark.

It’s just gone up in a new bathroom which has cost us a fortune to have installed,.

That’s a good tip MrsSkylerWhate but not sure how that works with wallpaper which is multicoloured. Too late now anyway.

MIL put some dark wallpaper in one of the rooms and you can kind of see the seam but it's not noticeable, only if you're admiring the wallpaper

Since you had it installed by a professional I would complain if it's really bad

It’s like the photo attached. You can see the seams without looking closely. So just wondered if this was bad in the scheme of things, he’s quite a careful guy and we’ve used him for painting other rooms,

You can't ever not see the seams if you're looking, but the pattern should match so that they are not instantly visible and obvious.

Thanks the pattern matches spot on but one seam is very visible,

Like this. It’s all just been finished on top of Christmas so I’m probably feeling a bit over anxious after months of noise and disruption. Appreciate it’s a very small problem in the scheme of things

It is a little noticeable...... you can check again with the contracter

Otherwise I would try the pencil/pen hack

That would drive me mad every time I looked at it.
(Sorry 😑 )

As its that visable l would have expected a professional to call you in to have a look after the first two rolls went up.

That would drive me mad. I think it's one of those things that you can't unsee once you've seen it.

Is it not too late for the pencil now it’s up? It wasn’t as noticeable when he first did it. It’s only a small part of the wall so he put it up and left. I think it’s become more noticeable as it’s dried out.

DGM used to fix like things in her house with her oil paints

It isn't always possible to have invisible seams as it depends on how perfect the walls are.

Is it visible the whole length as sometimes it may be perfect at the top and bottom but show in the middle?

If it is all the way down then that's not great as it may have shrunk back. All is not lost though as with a set of very sharp coloured pencils the right colour and a steady hand you can fill it in. Decorators do this, it is acceptable.

Radiator (towel rail) was fitted soon after by plumbers and turned on. Decorator thinks this might have speed dried the paper.

Ah yes in that case it dried too quickly, you're supposed to allow about 24 hours for wallpaper to dry before heating is put on.

Somanysocks .. thanks a lot. That is what the decorator mentioned doing. It is one particular seam that is visible (or more than the other). We had a defective roll last week when the decorator was due to do it and the plumber was coming back to do the radiator this week. But the roll couldn't be used so they ended up having to do papering and radiator fixing in one day. Of course, they had to turn the radiator on to make sure it worked but I had no idea it might cause an issue with the wallpaper shrinking or we would have left it off.