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WHEN PAPERING your walls, keep these hetpful
tips in mind,

W When hanging a large senate pattern in a room that
has a fireplace, centre the first strip over the fireplace
and hang to the right. Then go back and hang to the
left. UW you're going around the whole room, plan to
end in an inconspicuous corner.

@ Never wrap a whole strip around inside corners,
without cutling and realigning. (¢ may look OK at
first, but in a few weeks, wrinkles and creases might
appear.

B When using no-match, plain-textured watleaver-
ings, reverse every other strip top to bottem for uni-
form color.

@ Never use a seam roller on flocked wallcaverings.
Gently tap the seams with the edge of a smoothing
brush.

Bi Check the run numbers on your rolls before you
start to make sure they’re the same, since color may
vary slightly from run to run.

lf you're not going to paper fate the inside of an
arch or frameless window or door, trim the wallcover-
ing with a razor, A" from the outside edge. This will
prevent fraying or pulling from the outside edge.
@ Ceilings, like walls, are not always true so plan to
end the ceiling walleovering on the fess critical side of
the room, like above the entrance.
® When using the same pattern on the ceiling and
walls, itcan only be matched one way, so choose the
direction most frequently looked at

To match the pattern, trim the ceiling walleovering
so there's a 4" overlap on the sidewall, Match the first
sidewall strip at the ceiling line, overlapping 2" as
usual. Smooth the strip down, To trim the overlap,
scare it with a pencil atthe joint. Pull the walleover-
ing back and cut on the scored line with scissors,
Smooth it back down and it’s matched.
@ Where vinyl wallcoverings overlap in corners, at
ceilings, etv., you'll probably need to use a vinyl to
vinyl adhesive to make them stick together.

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to agree that one of the ways to
reduce the waste stréam is to focus
on organic materials currently head-
ing to the landfills.

Tt was the GVRD who put out a
tender for bids on the composting
of green waste at the North
Vancouver transfer station.

Although only two sites have
been contracted out by the GVRD
to date (North Vancouver and
Langley), Envirowaste Industries
received them both.

The company is also involved in
pilot projects in Burnaby, New
Westminster and Mission.

“The contract came out for hid
and we happen to have received the
award so we're quite happy because
we beat out four or five other peo-
ple,” said Halward.

He added that the GVRD really
couldn't lose by putting out the
contracts. “If they are going to
achieve their goals, this is a tremen-
dous way to do it.”

Envirowaste did not make a
profit until its third year of opera-
tion, however it is one of the few
companies operating in an industry
claiming not one, but three sources
of revenue.

It reccives money from the
GVRD for operating the transfer
station facility, from people drop-
ping off their waste and from con-
sumers buying the composted top-
soil.

“The nice thing about dealing
with the organic materials is that
there's an end-use for it. It’s kind of
a neat business because we get paid
for our raw materials and then we
end up selling the end material.”

Although the Aldergrove plant is
currently only operating at 50%
capacity, Halward does not foresee
a shortage of organic waste coming
in.

“Vopsoit markets are very big in
the Lowes Mainland and it would
take an 2wful lot of material to sup-
ply that market.”

He sees forest companies and
their tremendous amount of waste
material as a future resource, but
says Envirowaste will “conquer that
when it comes.”

For now, Halward is savoring
the recent successes of his compa-
ny. .
“We're excited about it and we
think it has a big future and we real-
ly like it. It's also kind of neat
knowing we're doing the right thing
too.”

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