Orange Peel Textured Drywall Sheet Ild
Knockdown can be achieved by adding a step to the orange peel technique.
Orange peel textured drywall sheet ild. During the 1990 s and early 2000 s hand textures such as hawk and trowel skip trowel or santa fe became much more popular. Prepping drywall for orange peel texture. The orange peel texture roller method allows you to add texture to your walls without an airless spray painter. The hopper gun itself comes with this adjustable wheel deal that has different size holes.
What you will need tools materials hopper gun. Forget about them holes set it to one of the medium to large size holes and leave it alone. This setting usually gives you splatter the right size for an orange peel texture. Make sure to get 1 with an air adjusting valve like shown in picture.
Use a roller with a thick nap to apply the mix to the wall. You put a thinned mixture of drywall joint compound e g 30 pounds of a compound to 5 pints of water mixed to a consistency like runny batter into the hopper then run the gun half open through a small nozzle at about 25 30 psi. Mix joint compound and water to a thick yogurt like consistency. After applying an orange peel texture to the walls flatten the peaks and bumps that form in the drywall compound using an.
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