I have a 20 year old house that needed several repairs in the drywall; small stuff, usually 1 foot diameter up to 3 foot. The repairs are complete, the areas sanded and blended in, but I’m having problems matching the drywall texture. The whole house was sprayed in a stubbly splatter that’s a bit more distinct than orange peel. I have a Spraying Mantis texture gun and spent an afternoon varying the joint compound thickness (thick paint to thick pancake batter), the pressure, the orifice, and the trigger settings. I’ve created some nice patterns and knockdowns, but nothing that comes close to matching the existing pattern. Anyone have a suggestion on how to achieve a small, pebbly (NOT popcorn), type of pattern? I can post a picture to give a better idea of what I’m describing. I’m using light weight joint compound.
Thanks,
Mike
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And it's not a sand texture? A pic would help.
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Sounds like a fine sand texture thru the hopper gun.
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Could it be a splater texture.
Use a real stiff bush and dip it in the texture. Then either fling it so that the centrifical force throughs it off the brush.
Or flip the brissels to fling the material.
Here is what I am thinking of, but the picture link is missing.
http://www.vertri.com/repair_drywall_texture.html
Here are a number of different textures.
http://www.drywallschool.com/textures.htm
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Impossible to say without a picture.
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Here's a pic of the texture I'm trying to duplicate:
http://www.mikeandglenda.net/MandG/drywall/drywalltexture.jpg
The biggest pieces are about 1/8" dia. The density of the texture is fairly light. I can't seem to get the size and distinctness of the particles, yet maintain this density. These are not polystyrene.
My wife has the same pattern in her house. A contractor textured a damaged wall to match using a similar gun, so I assume it's possible.
Is there any difference between the textures you get when using thinned down joint compound vs. texture mix.
Thanks,
Mike
Edited 2/11/2008 12:05 am ET by radiofreemike
That looks something like my walls. I always just assumed that it was sand texture with lots of coats of paint on it to make the lumps bigger... Don't really know, though.
Looks like a orange peal to fine knock down setting (Knock down with out being troweled over and Knocked down) should be able to get close with the texture in the can that you dial in the amount via a threaded nozzle fitting not the one with the straws, if a smaller area the stuff does go far in coverage.Wallyo
looks like what we call orange peel. Might try a stiffer mix, lower pressure, and varying the distance from gun to wall.
The higher water content and higher the pressure the more the texture flattens out when it hits. Too much air pressure will give a lot of fine dots. Spray in a can with the dial control is pretty good to try to match this with.
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You can probably get fairly close to the smaller particles when spraying out of a can or your sprayer. The larger chunks can then be added by hand if the area is small, or you might look at a textured mix to spray.
There is an accustical patch that would match the larger chunks pretty close (at least after a few heavy coats of paint).
Don't think you have to get the entire texture perfect in one pass. On hard to match areas I'll get the small specs in the background on, prime the surface and add some of what's missing. Priming the new and old area helps show the differences more clearly.
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It turns out that medium acoustic particles through the hopper gun would probably do the trick. Unfortunately, I couldn't find medium particles (HD, Lowes, Ace, wholesale drywall supplier), so I simulated it with a combination of coarse and fine (sand) particles. It's a nice looking texture . . . . if you squint and the room is poorly lit, it sort of matches the existing texture.
no doubt that matching textures is an art.... and very difficult to do.
I've had good luck with it but I am an artist..... <G>
It looks to me that there is some matter in with the stucco, not just simply a splattering of stucco or JC. And then it is sparsely sprayed.
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