Wallpaper lamination

[DoubleDiamond]

We have installed vinyl to walls before and used customer provided typical peel and stick vinyl. We used wallpaper paste and it worked fine. The provided vinyl had no lam and the walls texture was typical drywall semi-smooth. The new job we printed and the wall is the same texture and we want to laminate it for durability. It's in a college hallway and we think it will be fine, but has anyone done this before with the lam or does it become to rigid? We printed on orocal 3641 and our lam is orocal 210.
Thanks for the advice, Joe

 

[ChicagoGraphics]

Are you sure there isin't a coat of liquid laminate on them

 

[DoubleDiamond]

May have had liquid lam... I don't think so. The printed edges didn't act like our typical vinyl and get super thin and crazy. I called the printer that printed them and she can't remember the details but assumes if it was peel and stick, then it had to be plain calendered vinyl. We couldn't get it to stick, so we added wallpaper paste and it worked great. Still looks good some 8 years later, and no shrinkage. I just looked at a fellers catalog and see calandered wall wrap so it must be the norm. I think with so much paste it does not have a chance to shrink. One reason we want to lam is we already printed and didn't use matte as we should have, so we will laminate with matte, The wallpaper paste I just bought is a thick gel type too, so I think it will fill the texture and stick great, it's made for vinyl wallpaper too.
Thanks, Joe

 

[phototec]

I would use ClearShield Type LL Matte liquid laminate, An inexpensive way to protect your prints, signs, vehicle graphics, banners, awnings and other products from UV, abrasion and chemical damage.

http://www.lexjet.com/i-3861-ClearStar-ClearShield-Type-LL-Matte-WBCMLLG.aspx