Ingrain wallpaper

Ingrain ( according to the old spelling woodchip ) is a form of wallpaper with an unevenly structured ( " rough " ) surface. It was invented in 1864 by pharmacist Hugo Erfurt ( 1834-1922 ). First, it served as a decoration paper for showcase and as base paper for print wallpaper. In the so-called Bauhaus era of the 1920s, people began to use them as wallpaper in the interior design.

Hugo Erfurt was a grandson of the paper maker Friedrich Erfurt, who had founded in 1827 the company Erfurt & Sohn in Wuppertal, which is now the world's largest producer of paintable wallpaper and still has its headquarters in Wuppertal.

The woodchip is measured in terms of numbers, the most common wall covering in Germany.

Properties

Ingrain today consists of three layers, are firmly incorporated into the structure-forming wood fibers. Depending on the degree of granulation occur as fine, medium and coarse structures. In a renovation of the coating can be painted over several times and does not have to be completely replaced. A coarse-grained wall covering can also be painted more often because its grain size (structure) is longer visible. Using special primers before wallpapering, to ingrain can be pulled off dry. Traditionally, however, they are like other wallpaper also moisturized. The reversible glue dissolves and the wallpaper can, more or less, be removed from the substrate. If the woodchip coated with latex paint wasserundurchdringlicher, a previous perforation is advisable and necessary.

The establishment of the non-woven wallpaper there ingrain the meantime also a fleece version.

History

Previously walls painted with lime or distemper, which had to be washed off with each renovation. Then they came up with the idea to stick a paper covering between color and wall so that you had to remove only the wallpaper to get the color of the wall. After Erfurt & Sohn had in 1864 developed a woodchip wallpaper to window dressing, this is established in the 1920s, then as a good and universal wall covering. By their structure as to cover irregularities in the wall. Its popularity owes to ingrain especially the low cost of renovation, its robustness and ease of processability. She is also a health risk when using the appropriate glue and wall colors. In the manufacture of recycled paper used is largely avoided and in particular PVC, plasticizer, and solvent. Since 2007 Raufasersorten are offered that are suitable according to TÜV seal for allergic households. Since its introduction in 2009, realized with Rauhvlies design also wave and stripe pattern with Raufaserstruktur.

Processing

Woodchip is like any other wallpaper pocketed the back evenly with a suitable gluing. Are helpful Pasting Machines, which happens the paste job very evenly and efficiently. After folding the paper when pasted these paths have to give a certain amount of time before they are glued to the ground. In so-called non-woven ingrain the structure is formed as in the classic original from wood chips. The wall covering, however, can be papered directly from the roll to the pre-pasted wall. Cutting, gluing and soaking here are no longer necessary. However, these Tapetenart not clamped during drying on the wall, so it is not as well suited for bumpy uneven walls. As with non-woven materials specific type, they can be deducted from the wall to redecorating, again without any aids completely dry.

Artistic Desk

• The woodchip wallpaper as a quintessential English small middle class runs as a leitmotif through the 1995 released single Disco 2000 the English pop band Pulp ( Your house was very small / With wood chip on the wall ).