Wallpapering Aid and Method of Hanging Wallpaper

Abstract

There is disclosed a wallpapering aid comprising a base having a ground engaging portion, and a support. The support is configured to extend from the base and, in use, bear against a sheet of wallpaper hanging from a height above the support to cause a lower region of the sheet of wallpaper to hang offset horizontally from an upper region of the sheet of wallpaper. The wallpapering aid may be used to facilitate the preparation and fixing of the sheet of wallpaper to a wall.

Description

Claims

1-23. (canceled)

24. A wallpapering aid comprising: a base having a ground engaging portion; anda support configured to extend from the base and, in use, bear against a sheet of wallpaper hanging from a height above the support to cause a lower region of the sheet of wallpaper to hang offset horizontally from an upper region of the sheet of wallpaper.

25. A wallpapering aid according to claim 24, further comprising first and second connecting portions cooperable with one another to releasably connect the base and the support to one another.

26. A wallpapering aid according to claim 25, wherein the first and second connecting portions are cooperable with one another such that the support extends from the base selectively in a first configuration, in which the support extends from the base furthest in a first direction, and a second configuration, in which the support extends from the base furthest in a second direction opposite the first direction.

27. A wallpapering aid according to claim 26, wherein the first and second connecting portions are cooperable with one another such that the support extends from the base in the first and second configurations only.

28. A wallpapering aid according to claim 25, wherein the first and second connecting portions are cooperable with one another in that the first connecting portion has a hole and the second connecting portion has a peg receivable in the hole.

29. A wallpapering aid according to claim 28, wherein the hole is an open channel extending through the first connecting portion and the peg is receivable in the channel via an open end thereof such that the peg extends through a mouth of the channel.

30. A wallpapering aid according to claim 29, wherein the channel has a substantially acute trapezoidal cross-section and the mouth of the channel is a shortest side of two parallel sides of the cross-section of the channel.

31. A wall papering aid according to claim 29, wherein the peg has a substantially acute trapezoidal cross-section and is receivable in the channel such that a longest of two parallel sides of the cross-section of the peg is inside the channel and a shorter side of the two parallel sides of the cross-section of the peg is outside the channel.

32. A wallpapering aid according to claim 28, wherein the peg has a plurality of spaced apart peg portions and the first and second connecting portions are cooperable with one another in that one or more of peg portions are receivable in the hole selectively.

33. A wallpapering aid according to claim 28, wherein the peg has rotational symmetry of order two such that the peg is receivable in the hole selectively in a first orientation and a second orientation and the support extends from the base in the first and second configurations, respectively.

34. A wallpapering aid according to claim 33, wherein the peg is receivable in the hole in the first and second orientations only.

35. A wallpapering aid according to claim 25, wherein the first and second connecting portions are cooperable in that together they provide a push fit connection.

36. A wallpapering aid according to claim 25, wherein the base comprises the first connecting portion and the support comprises the second connecting portion.

37. A wallpapering aid according to claim 25, wherein a distance between the ground engaging portion of the base and the support is variable.

38. A wallpapering aid according to claim 37, wherein the base comprises a telescopic portion configured to vary the distance between the ground engaging portion of the base and the support.

39. A wallpapering aid according to claim 24, wherein the support comprises a plurality of spaced apart first projections to, in use, bear against the sheet of wallpaper.

40. A wallpapering aid according to claim 25, wherein the base comprises a plurality of connecting portions according to either of the first and second connecting portions, each of the plurality of connecting portions being configured such that, in use, the support extends from the base selectively at a first height above the ground when connected to one of the plurality of connecting portions and at a second height above the ground, lower than the first height, when connected to another of the plurality of connecting portions.

41. A method of hanging wallpaper comprising: providing a wallpapering aid adjacent a wall to be wallpapered, the wallpapering aid comprising: a base having a ground engaging portion; anda support configured to extend from the base;fixing an upper edge of a sheet of wallpaper to a wall at a height above the support while the support bears against the sheet of wallpaper to cause a lower region of the sheet of wallpaper to hang offset horizontally from an upper region of the sheet of wallpaper.

42. A method according to claim 41, further comprising releasably connecting the base and the support to one another selectively such that the support extends from the base in a first configuration, in which the support extends from the base furthest in a first direction, and a second configuration, in which the support extends from the base furthest in a second direction opposite the first direction.

43. A method according to claim 41, further comprising providing the wallpapering aid adjacent a wall such the support contacts the wall.