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(More customer reviews)I couldn't find much information about installation before I bought this, so hopefully this will help you:
I purchased this to cover a wall in my son's bedroom so he could draw on the wall. It's drywall with a little bit of texture. My first mistake was to try and install the sheets with no prep to the wall. It lasted about a day before it started to peel at the edges and bubble.
I decided I would start over and try to sand the wall down and prime it to have a fresh surface. Unfortunately, when I removed the dry erase sheets some of the old paint stuck to the back :(
I did a little bit of sanding (I hate sanding, so the wall still has some texture), primed the wall, then re-applied the sheets. This lasted a little longer, but the sheets would still bubble and were peeling away where the old paint had stuck to the back of them. Time for plan "C"...
I went to home depot and purchased a couple tubs of wall paper paste. It was tucked back on a bottom shelf in the paint department where you would find wall papare removing chemicals. It ended up I only needed one tub (the wall is 10 ft wide by 8ft tall) to reapply all four sheets. The tricky part was the edges where the sheets meet. You definitely need two people and need to be very patient to get this right. Most of my seems turned out OK, but there are a couple sections where I was rushing and they curl up a bit. I can probably fix this with a little more paste and some time to reapply.
So lessons to be learned - start with a clean, primed wall. If you can make it completely smooth, you will probably have better luck with the sheets not bubbling. A little texture is still OK, but you may need to smooth it out every now and then. Finally, wall paper paste is good for a permanent installation.
Good Luck!
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Turn any surface into a dry erase board. Markers will not bleed through so they can be used over and over again. Self-stick removable sheets that are guaranteed to erase. The sheets are laser/copier printable to make your own custom dry erase sheet. 5 sheets per package
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