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Small-Scale Drywall Texturing
comments (3) April 28th, 2009 in Blogs
Chuck Miller, editor at large
Video Length: 1:17
Produced by: John Ross
Letter from Don Mathis of Macomb, Ill,.
On a recent job, I installed an oak staircase in an existing stairwell. The walls had a well-defined orange-peel texture that had to be matched in a few places to make everything blend together seamlessly. I had the hopper gun in the truck, but it seemed like overkill for the few spots that needed touching up, only about 1 sq. ft. total. I decided to try something different.
I emptied a plastic bottle that had a nozzle and put some thinned drywall mud inside. Practicing on a sheet of cardboard to get a feel for it, I squeezed out just a little and shot it with an air gun. It was a fairly fast learning curve, and in no time, I learned how to imitate the correct texture.
This isn’t a substitute for the hopper. But for a small job like this one, it worked just fine.
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Comments (3)
Posted: 8:24 am on March 27th
Thanks for any leads!
Posted: 8:04 am on March 27th
existing orange peel texture which is allways round i.e,
when you sprayed it with air the mud had tails which would
look bad when trying to match an orange peel textures
Posted: 8:43 pm on March 22nd
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