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   Mooney | Dec 05, 2004 07:23pm | #1

   "I have never come across anyone who can 'match' stipple without it looking like a patch."

   Yes and no. I can repair it to look like new , but it wont be the same .,the same is gone basically.

   Of course stipple has been painted and its not worth stripping to me or most of the time the customer.If its been stippled with UGG joint compound its there as far as Im concerned.  If it has to resemble what it did before , I box it with a 12 inch float box 10 inches apart and set it on feather. Come back in a few hours and box the 10 inch spaces on feather.  Now you have a slick ceiling thats primed well if you want to paint it or stipple over it . New looking work either way.

   On the other hand , you can mask the patch and shoot it to match as close as possible. Remove the masking paper and blend it with a feather brush. Then shoot the entire ceiling with another stipple and it will look like new work , but it wont match the rest of the house. All depends on the customers dollars. For fixer uppers , low cost clients, and rent houses , this method flies. It does not look like a patch , but it doesnt look like the rest of the other rooms and under flat paint , it doesnt stand out even then.

   Tim Mooney

   
   

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   Edited 12/5/2004 11:24 am ET by Tim Mooney

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   DThompson | Dec 05, 2004 07:45pm | #2

   Tim,I never thought of masking off excellent suggestion.

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   Mooney | Dec 05, 2004 07:56pm | #3

   Well, masking off is the only way to repair a ceiling that has acoustic texture. Ive repaired several and needed to come back the next day to shoot over the patch and the client would call and say , "its good". Let me pay you now and dont come back.

   Of couse I knew they were getting by cheaper , but Ive seen some pop corn patches look good if the original was pretty new.

   Ive never even tried to patch stipple with a patch alone and wouldnt . I agree with you on that . Theres not enough texture there to cover anything.

   Tim Mooney

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   MisterT | Dec 06, 2004 02:34am | #4

   I "flattened" a stippled bathroom cieling a while back.

   Went out to the shed and found a Hoe

   hoed off the high spots

   then put on a coat of easy sand trowweling in one direction

   made a bunch of parrallel ridges

   Sanded the high(or low) spots

   next coat I trowelled in the perpendicular direction.

   valleys filled in nicely.

   one more sand and a 3rd coat and you would never know the diff. 

   Mr T

   I can't afford to be affordable anymore