Wallpaper scissors blog | UK prices, paste and cuts
Wallpaper scissors guides for you: reversed blades, UK prices, paste on the pivot, a lining-paper cut, socket cutouts and when shears are the wrong tool.
How to clean wallpaper scissors after the paste dries
Your first drops trim cleanly, then the handles resist and the tip drags damp paper. Paste drying on the blade faces and inside the pivot is the usual
Cut lining paper straight: a reliable table method
A straight full-length cut starts before the scissors touch the paper. Measure the wall where the drop will hang, add a trimming allowance, square the
Left-handed wallpaper scissors: true reversed blades
You are at the ceiling with a pasted drop folded back over a crease, but the upper blade covers the line you need to follow. Squeezing harder makes th
Sharpen wallpaper scissors: when the edge needs it
You reach the skirting cut, close the last few centimetres of the blades and find that the wet sheet folds instead of separating. That is the useful s
Wallpaper scissors consumer rights: UK refund rules
You open the parcel, line up the first pasted drop and find that the paperhanging scissors fold the wet paper at the tip. Or the listing said 300 mm,
Wallpaper scissors price UK: what £4 to £24.95 buys
You can spend about £4 on wallpaper scissors, or more than six times that, before you buy a roll of paper. Size and format decide whether a pair at ab
Cut wallpaper around a socket safely with scissors
The drop is pasted, the pattern is aligned and a UK socket has disappeared beneath the paper. To cut wallpaper around a socket cleanly, you need to is
When not to use wallpaper scissors: seven warning signs
You have opened a long pair of paperhanging scissors and discovered that the awkward part of the job is not the cut. The paper is foil, silk or grassc