If your company does any business in the high-end residential or commerical markets, you may have encourntered canvas murals. These hangings often grace large ceilings and pose some interesting challenges to paperhangers, namely, their weight. From the paperhanging category of our TOP JOB AWARDS illustrate the process of hanging murals.

Making it Manageable

Joe Parker and Bill Harding of Precision Painting and Walcovering, Inc. in Chadds Ford, Pa., have installed a fair numbers of murals. This one was particularly challenging because the hand-painted mural was supplied on four pieces of type two canvas -- each measuring 10 by 20 feet.

"We immediately ruled out the possiblity of installing complete pieces since the wieght of the goods and the adhesive applied would make it impossible to hand, " explained Parker. "So we hand trimmed each sheet."

The mural was to be installed on an apex-type ceiling 50 feet off the ground. Parker and Harding installed chalk lines and laid out the installation at desired poinsts of the ceiling. Despite having reduced the size of the panels, weight remained an issue. They joined two pasting tables together to paste the goods. They installed them by slightly overlapping and double cutting. Upon completetion the artists touched up the mural to blend the finished goods. Parker and Harding added the wood frame following the job. The installation lasted about a week.