How much air presure is normally used when applying orange peel texture with an air texture hopper gun and wall and ceiling mix?
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The best is to experiment on some scrap board before you begin. I use a marshmellowtown hopper and run it at about 40 psi for a nice even texture. BTW- experimenting will also let you find the right setting for the gun, I usually use the smaller increments for the look i like.
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With my old hoppergun I use about 20 psi, 3/16" tip, and 1 qt of water per box of mud. Make sure your walls are primed. Texture will set up quicker on primed rock than unprimed. Shoot a test on the walls you're going to texture. If you don't like it, use your 12" knife to scrape it off, and adjust your coverage speed/distance/air pressure. The more pressure, the finer the splatter and the less strike-down you have to do.
What Tom said.....
But the important step here is the priming before texturing
Thinner mix takes less pressure to spray, and leaves a different spatter. Yoiu need to be consistent in how you mix the batches so you don't have to adjust the gun and compressor from room to room.
I'm sorry, I thought you wanted it done the right way.
Depends on what you want to call orange peel.
There are different needle sizes and then the dial size. The amount of paint ot water you add also makes a difference . I like to mix vinyl primer with it and paint the wall with the spray and then come back over it with the desired texture. I paint the wall with a small orfice at 100 lbs pressure . The load up on orange peel is done at about 30 lbs, but pressures dont mean a lot if your material and equipment are different.
Tim Mooney