my main entrance at my loft project… is framed by exposed 12×16 heartpine beams sitting on 12×12 heart pine posts you enter thru a pair of 8ft french doors on a stamped london cobble stone entry… the walls had to be more than slick drywall… I did leave the big main sprinkler control valve exposed and lit in the entry lobby area as “urban art”
i mixed a light yellow latex semi gloss paint (that i knew i’d never use) with DWM and a few cups of POP and about 2 cups of yellow iron oxide… got a really cool goldish color that seems to pick up on the colors in the old heart pine…
applied it to drywall that have been taped & mudded and was paint ready… used a 3/4 nap purdy roller cover…. got a few tools ready to use for the knock down… but none gave the effect i wanted… so i made a 10″ rubber bladed knife… had just enough stiffness and flex…. did the first knock down with it… and finished up with a foam covered grout float used flat on the wall… kinda polished the wall with it… i did a 12ft tall x 35ft long wall in 2.5 hours start to finish… there is a heart pine post mid wall so i did it half & half fully coating and finishing the first before the second… i’d say thats as much wall as one person working alone can handle…
i think it looks damn good… think’n about a glaze over it…
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So, are you going to post a picture or just rely on your verbal skills to excite us? :-)
You saying ponytl should be working one of those sex line phone banks?
There is no absurdity that human beings will not resort to in order to defend another absurdity. -- Cicero
Not really, but without pictures, I think he's just a tease.
have you seen the " magic trowel "its like a big sqeegee.if you google it you'll find there sight. some guys are using it on the texture cement also. larry
if a man speaks in the forest,and there's not a woman to hear him,is he still wrong?
Blue wants to know what size dunkin donut cup you used to measure the whatever.
How's the acid stain coming?
Do you have a camera? How bout some pics of this project?
You coulda done a video of this project, I'd buy a copy.
Joe H