This month we installed a mural at Rodda's Paint Factory in the upstairs lounge. Todd Imholte, President of Environmental Graphics generously donated this mural which is Hole #7 at Pebble Beach, CA. You can purchase these beautiful murals through your local wallpaper store. Visit www.environmentalgraphics.com to see all their murals.
Shannon & Peter inspect all panels and arrange their order. We installed the bottom row first then the top.

The ceiling line was not level, so we engineered the installation to allow for trimming away a bit of the blue sky.

Here we see Jerry installing the 2nd panel on the top row.
We primed the wall with Gardz®, then used a 4' level to draw our cross hairs (level & plumb lines) on the middle of the wall.

Starting in the middle of each row and using the cross hairs as a guide is much easier than trying to install from left to right.
We used the infamous "Wet/Dry Hanging System". Roman® PRO 880 was rolled onto the wall, then we wet the back of each panel. You can use a small sprayer, sponge, roller or brush. The trick is to get the back side wet without creating puddles of water. This allows the panels to expand before going to the wall. We rolled up the panels with the back side out. Then it was easy to unroll on the wall and align the pattern match. This keeps paste off the front side of the mural.
Chuck Ricks,
Peter Newall,
Mary Lou Johnson,
Jerry Peluso,
Shannon Russell,
& Gordon Kramm.

Others present but not shown:
Jan Barney,
Jan Hazlett.
A Masterpiece! Everyone at Rodda loves the mural and it has been getting rave reviews. We were very happy to give it a permanent home.

We overlapped our seams slightly for a better pattern match and used VOV to prevent them from lifting. This made our seams look wet in the above photo, but they dried over night.

Special thanks to Jan Barney for filling in as Staff Duty Photographer.


"Other murals crinkle and lose colors while you're handling them, seem to turn into wet tissue paper after pasting, & tear while you're trying to trim them. Environmental Graphics® murals are more durable and less susceptible to damage during installation than other brands. Therefore, I highly recommend Environmental Graphics® murals to anyone who desires the best looking murals on their walls."

-Chuck Ricks, Northwest Chapter President
National Guild of Professional Paperhangers

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