I am repairing two seams in DW. The DW has a splatter texture.
These are two small areas at the corner of a window. About 18″ long. One at the top left and one at the bottom right. Not at eye level so it not in a prominate location.
I was planning on using one the spray cans of texture.
My question is how to blend the texture at the edges of the repairs.
I was thinking of using some cardboard for a mask, but hold it away a few inches so that it allows some “bleadover”.
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I've had great results with the water-based cans of spray texture when the overspray needs to be kept to a minimum.
The first step is a quick primer coat so any of the texture can be easily wiped off if it isn't quite right. Then the stuff is sprayed on and any texture outside of the repair is simply wiped off with a damp cloth. Any of the new texture in crevices or covering old texture that wouldn't look right can be dug out quickly with a toothbrush.
On very hard to match areas it' sometimes worthwhile to make a number of layers separated with primer so you can keep what you like and build on it.
I've also been known to spray an area and use a very fine artist brush to extend some of the original texture on the edge of the patch and help eliminate the abrupt line between old and new. Often the difference between a good patch and one that is so-so has to do with how the edge of the old and new is handled.
Also, keep in mind that it's often best to not stop the new texture exactly along the patch line, but rather to have it randomly taper off to nothing over a foot or so.
Best of luck.
"I've also been known to spray an area and use a very fine artist brush to extend some of the original texture on the edge of the patch and help eliminate the abrupt line between old and new. Often the difference between a good patch and one that is so-so has to do with how the edge of the old and new is handled.Also, keep in mind that it's often best to not stop the new texture exactly along the patch line, but rather to have it randomly taper off to nothing over a foot or so."I know that is what I am trying to figure out.You gave me a good idea with the primer so that I can wipe if off.
You gave me a good idea with the primer so that I can wipe if off.
If you have a hard time finding the water-based can texture, sometimes dipping the tips of a wisk or other small broom in slightly thinned mud and running a taping knive over the bristles to "flick" specks of texture can work well. It requires much more practice on a scrap of plywood or drywall to get the consistancy correct, but works in a pinch. Wetting the bristles first seems to help. Cleanup is a mess. :-)
match the texture as close as you can...
let it set to almost dry...
use the finer nozzel and hold back a bit and fade the new to the old....
fade by a quick sweep motion and pulling away at the same time...
do this several times verses tring for a one shot deal...
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Actually I did it in reverse.I used the fine nozzle and it looked good. But after it started to dry it started blending together and became a more uniform orange peel.Then I went back over it with the medium nozzle to add more larger globs.But the orginal texture varied from sq ft areas that was very uniform fine orange peel to places that had quarter size globs.But the main thing I learned was to make very short spot blast and then move to the next area. At least with the very small areas that I was doing (about 6" by 18").Do those randomly and then look at it and go over it agin and fill in the light spots.
I read recently, I believe it was a "Tip" in a recent FHB publication, that you can use a turkey baster to squirt the texture on the walls. Cheaper than the cans, I would think. Can might be easier though.
At great risk of causing a massive case of laughter, I'll admit I tried this once and about fell over because it worked.
I had a similar situation. The HO had brought a ladder up the stairs and put one of the ends right through the wall next to the kitchen. I was finishing the basement. It was a "while you're here could ya" item.
Sanded the area around it, put in a blowout patch, and to rematch the tex, we're talking 1sf here, I mixed compound real thin in the pan, took out a 3" paintbrush, loaded it, held it about a foot from the wall, bristles up, and shot air over the tips from a compressor. I told her no promises. I didnt have a texture gun and didnt put a lot of stock in the idea. I'll be darned if it didnt work. They had kind of an orange peel with a real light knockdown to it, and when the stuff dried I just skimmed the pole over it a couple of times and it blended right in.
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I have also heard of fling it the brush.But I think that this is too big of globs for that. Got it primed so I will shot the can in the morining.
Patch and sand the edges of the patch to blend in with the wall. Then texture, a little overspray around the perimeter is no problem, generally no need to "mask" the surrounding area. Spray cans of texture work OK, if you do this a lot, here's what I think is the way to go:
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