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Paperhanging Arts

 

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Subject Index for the course

With this index you will discover the carefully filmed and tested demonstrations and information available in your home with our course. These are NOT links to other information. This is the same subject index that the students receive when they order our course.

LEGEND FOR THIS INDEX:

T is Tape number (example 17T is tape 17)

Numbers with no letter after them refers to pages in large textbook

m pages in 1st marketing book (example 32m would be page 32 in the first marketing book)

M pages in 2nd marketing book (example 32M would be page 32 in the second marketing book)

ID* are pages in wallcovering sample book

ES* are estimating sheets in textbook they start on Page 199 of the textbook

TB* are pages in troubleshooting book

 

--H--

Half drop (see drop match)

Hallways 18T, 23T

Hand embroidery silk 28T

Hand painted murals 24T

Hand truck 193

Handscreens 3T, 7T, 21T, 25T, 48-49, 240-242

Hanging basics 5T, 6T

Hanging direction: see engineering

Hanging documents 9T

Hanging over old wallcoverings 1T, 15T, 143-146, 164

Hanging systems 10T, 110-117

Hearing messages 3m

Heavy duty adhesive (see claybase)

Heavy water 70

Help 17T, 164, TB*

Helping customers make correct decision 34M

History of wallcoverings 1T, 7T, 16

Holes in drywall repair 17T

Holiday work scheduling 16T

Home offices 17T

Home testing 1T, 23-24

Homes how they are crooked 19T

Horizontal cuts on outside corner 12T, 127

Hypodermic syringe 187

 

--I--

Imagination 187

Impossible to hang 8T, 40M

Inactive job data 16T

Index to tapes (see front of textbook)

Industry terms 1T, 17-19

Information 2, 13, 11-12m

Inside corner, mudding 2T

Inside corner split 6T, 11T, 19T, 20T, 26T, 81

Inspecting wallcoverings 3T, 4T, 8T, 20T, 21T, 48-52

Installer, qualified 5-6m, 32-33M

Installing horizontally: (see railroading)

Instruction sheets 2T, 36-37, 110-112, 185

Insulating liners 14T

Introduction to the course 1-9

IRS 17T, 141

 

--J--

Jewelry marking wallcovering 25T

John Cox rolls 23T, 24T, ES*

John Cox term 23, 74

John's newsletter: TB*

Join lines 25T, 241-242

Joints in block 14T, 137

 

--K--

Kiss 22

Kitchens 13T, 131-134

Kraft paper 3T, 9T, 14T, ID*, 140

 

--L--

Labels 1T, 23, 49-51

Labor and materials 155

Ladders 3T, 13T, 18T, 19T

Ladder standoff 19T

Lamp shades 66M

Language 1T, 17-18

Layers of paint 29-32

Leather tool belt (see tool belt)

Left handed: Front of textbook

Left to right hanging: (see engineering)

Level 3T, 5T, 176

Level lines 5T, 6T, 11T, 13T, 17T, 18T, 19T, 24T, 27T, 28T, 179, 121-124, 179, 238

Library shelves 162

Lifetime 17

Light fixtures on ceiling 13T, 18T

Light switches 5T

Lights for working 13T

Lightweight vinyl adhesives 2T, 10T, 25, 114

Limited warranties 16T

Lincoln, Abraham 21M

Lincrusta 3T, 26T, 243

Liners 9T, 14T, 135-140

Lining canvas 31, 14T, 136

Little things keeping track of 4T

Lock 194

Lost patterns 118

Lot 4T, 51

Luxury purchases 43M

 

--M--

McDonalds 2m, 4m

Magic Markers, 19T

Magazines 2-3

Manufacturing 25T

Manufacturing a cut of wallcovering 8T, 22T

Manufacturing defects 21T

Marketplace 1m

Marking down the room (see Engineering)

Marking down the table 4T

Masonry finishing stone 14T

Mass production 25T, 48

Matching walls to ceiling 18T, 168-169

Maximum cleanliness 10T

Measuring practice 2M

Medicine cabinets 13T

Message books 153

Metallic wallcovering 3T, ID*

Metric rolls 21T, 23T, 24T, ES*

Midrange adhesives 2T, 10T, 114

Milk 161

Mirrors 13T

Mistakes 49

Mistrimmed pretrimmed handprints 21T

Misunderstandings with customers 23T, ES*

Miters 7T, 13T, 27T, 244

Moisture 14T, 90

Mold and mildew 13T, 41-44, 133, 159

Mortar mix 14T, 137

Moving furniture 13T, 60, 131

Mudding, how to 2T

Multiple drop match 8T, Envelope sample, 105-106

Murals 24T, 238

Mylar 3T, 9T, 26T, ID*, 28, 96, 159, 242

 

 

--N--

Nails in the wall 5T

Nails, setting 2T

Names for your business 91-93

Names of products 17-18

Natural materials 20T, 182

Natural starting place 53

Natural talent 8-9M

Naulta, Fred front of textbook dedication

Neighborhood organization of prep work 4T

New construction 1T, 26-28

Newspaper advertising 51-53M

Newspaper press release 52-53M

Non staining adhesives 2T, 66

Nuts, bolts and screws 4T

Nylon mesh tape 136

 

--O--

Office supplies 151

Oil paint 148-149

Oil wallcovering undercoaters 14T, 15T, 34

One A Two B System 11T, 12T, 118-120

One hundred customers 33, 3m

One of a kind 4-5M

Organization of prep work 4T

Organizations 57M

Out of register print 8T

Out of square 8T, 24T, 185-186

Outside corners 12T, 125-127

Over soaking grasscloth 20T

Oxidation 159-160

 

--P--

Packaging defects 21T

Packaging for profits 16-20M

Paint remover 66

Paint test 28-29

Paint type wallcovering undercoater 1T, 14T, 23, 138

Painting and Decorating Contractors of America (see PDCA)

Painting over lining papers 9T

Painting pictures with words 47M

Paneling 14T, 135-137

Paper saving 22T, 191

Paper Tiger 15T, 147

Paper wallcoverings 41

Paperback foil 3T, ID*, 26T

Paperback mylar 3T, ID*, 26T

Paperback vinyl film heavy 3T, ID*

Paperback vinyl film light, 3T, ID*

Paperbacking fabric 28T

Paperhanging a profession 16-17

Papering over old wallcovering 1T, 15T

Papersaving 22T

Paratheon Prints 25T

Passable Work 4

Paste (see adhesives or particular named adhesives) 66, 69

Paste brush 3T

Paste left on woodwork 21T

Paste machine 22T, 38, 195-198

Paste roller 3T, 22T, 26T, 97-98

Paste table (see table)

Pasting 5T, 99,

Pasting long cuts 18T, 177

Patches 21T, 26T

Pattern matches 4T, 8T, 9T, 4, 57, 100-107

Pattern number 4T, 51

Pattern placement 13T, 19T, 68, 126, 128-130, 132,

Pattern repeating across the sheet 8T, 22T, 106

Pattern repeats 4T, 8T, 9T, 13T, 17T, 21T, 22T, 23T, 24T, 25T, 28T, 57, envelope samples

Pattern samples (see envelopes with wallcovering samples)

Pawnshop 18T

Payment bond 95

PDCA: 3

Peelable wallcoverings 15T, 147

Peeling and flaking paint 32

Pencils and pens 19T, 88, 187

Performance bonds 94

Persistence 21-23M

Phobias 29-31M

Photo murals 24T, 238

Picture frame 67M

Picture galleries 4T

Pigmented shellac 2T, 17T, 25, 157

Pine cone sitters 23M

Pine tree climbers 23M

Pirates 21m

Plaster 14T, 150

Plaster on a roll 14T, 140

Plastic smoothers 3T

Plexiglass 7T, 16T

Plumb bobs 5T

Plumb lines 5T, 6T, 11T, 12T, 13T, 19T, 24T, 27T, 28T, 75-82, 118-121, 179, 238

Pocket calculators 16T

Poison 69

Polks directory 11m

Pond 9m

Portfolio 134, 45M, 57M, 66M

Positioning 3-7m

Positive feedback 38-41

Practice 5, 74, 162, 178, 192, 1-3M

Prep, main topics on tapes 1T, 2T, 4T, 9T, 14T, 15T, 16T, 17T, Preparite 131

Prepasted adhesives 2T, 36-37, 70

Prepasted mylars 9T

Prepasted wallcovering 2T, 5T, 10T, 5, 36-39, 70-71

Pressuring customers 66M

Pretrimmed handprints 21T, 25T, 241 (column from APC)

Pride 4

Prime 1T, 18, 25, 60

Primers: (see wallcovering undercoaters)

Principled 11M

Printed materials 154

Printing your own border 22T

Product is you 4m, 4-10M

Professional associations 3

Purpose 24-27

Putting back a piece 22T

Puzzle, putting it together 3

PWC 2


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