texture???

[AllStockRacer]

I just bought a house that had some hidious texture on one wall and then the rest of the walls have i guess crows feet? not sure but i was wanting to change the whole houses texture to knock down what do I need to do... or where do I start. I started the living room and sanded one wall down its a pain n the ass hole. I figure there is a easier way to do this. any ideas

[97blkpny]

Pick up some day labor.

[KJ94GT]

I'd probably try scraping it off gently and then smoothing it a bit... or use an orbital sander ;)

[Yellowstang]

Either sand it down, or texture over it with a thincker texture.

or cover it up with wood paneling! :D

[bcoop]

I took a tile scraper to the crows foot texture on our walls, and textured over the minimal amount that was left.

You can still see some remnants of the crows foot, but you have to be less than 6" away from the wall, and look really hard to see it. In fact, chances are, it's all in my head, and I only see it because I know it's there. My wife says she can't notice it.

[bcoop]

Forgot to add - My advice, is FUCK knockdown. It's a bitch to match if you have to replace a patch in the wall or something.

I did what's called orange peel. It's the same texture material as knockdown, but it saves the step that's a big pain in the ass. With knockdown, you spray it up, wait for it to tack a bit, then knock it down with a large trowel. If you don't know what you're doing, it can be a pain in the ass, causing trowel lines, etc.


With orange peel, you just spray it up on the wall and that's it. No knock down.

[Tyrone Biggums]

or cover it up with wood paneling! :D

Fuck a bunch of wood paneling. Glad my shit is painted now. :D

[8mpg]

where is Blacksnake when you need him? You should be able to spray a water solution on them (with a garden pump sprayer) and scrape them. Lots of people get their old popcorn textured ceilings scraped and retextured. I have seen it on a show...they just use a stiff 12-18" scraper and it comes right off.

[AllStockRacer]

yeah but mine is on the wall and its horendous

[BlackSnake1996]

Kind of hard to tell ya what to do without seeing it, but I believe KJ94GT is correct. Just take a stiff putty knife and scrape all the high stuff off and then float the walls with light weight mud. Sand, float again, sand and then your ready for texture. Sometimes you can get away with floating the walls one time.

[the spindoctor]

yeah but mine is on the wall and its horendous

i'm in the same boat as you, the texture in one of my living rooms is literally 1/4"-1/2" tall and really hideous. when i get around to fixing it i'm going to try to knock the high spots off with a plainer, if that doesn't get it close enough i'm just going to rip it out and throw up new drywall. trying to blend all that in is more mess than i'm willing to put up with indoors.

let me know how it ends up.

[turbosaleen]

Make sure you prime the walls after you scrape them down and then float the bad areas with mud and then texture. If not you with get bubbles everywhere.

[BP]

Fuck a bunch of wood paneling. Glad my shit is painted now. :D

Tell me about it. I had two hallways, a dining room and one bedroom with wood paneling. As of right now I've got 2 walls in a bedroom, which will be ripped down today. Luckily they glued the trim on so there is a big gouge in the drywall.

[Vertnut]

Forgot to add - My advice, is FUCK knockdown. It's a bitch to match if you have to replace a patch in the wall or something.

I did what's called orange peel. It's the same texture material as knockdown, but it saves the step that's a big pain in the ass. With knockdown, you spray it up, wait for it to tack a bit, then knock it down with a large trowel. If you don't know what you're doing, it can be a pain in the ass, causing trowel lines, etc.


With orange peel, you just spray it up on the wall and that's it. No knock down.
I quit doing that "splatter-drag" a couple of years ago. I use rounded corners in all the houses, and it was hard for them to come out right. I use a "medium" orange peel. The "heavy" would probably cover up older texture pretty well. I've never tried it, but they can lay it on pretty heavily.

[AllStockRacer]

I quit doing that "splatter-drag" a couple of years ago. I use rounded corners in all the houses, and it was hard for them to come out right. I use a "medium" orange peel. The "heavy" would probably cover up older texture pretty well. I've never tried it, but they can lay it on pretty heavily.


thats what I wanted was the round edges but there is alluminium edges on all the corners

[Vertnut]

thats what I wanted was the round edges but there is alluminium edges on all the corners
That can be pulled off, and replaced with the rounded corners. It would be messy, but not impossible.

[bcoop]

That can be pulled off, and replaced with the rounded corners. It would be messy, but not impossible.



And a major PITA. I gave up on rounded corners. LOL!

[Vertnut]

And a major PITA. I gave up on rounded corners. LOL!
I didn't say it was easy! ;)

[Doug Hatton]

It's pretty tough to match knockdown if there's a repair. I had a spot in my house where my Dad tried his hand at it... here are a couple pics... not perfect, but BETTER! The previous owner did a shitty job trying to repair it....

[The Big Matt]

knockdown is a pain in the ass for the do it yourselfer

I retextured my entire front living room with orange peel. It was all wallpaper, and the wallpaper was glued directly to bare sheetrock, so there was no taking it off, without taking off the outer layer of sheetrock.

It came out really good, and was easy as shit

[bcoop]

It came out really good, and was easy as shit


Yep, hardest part about it is thinning it down, and making sure your air pressure is right. And that's not hard at all, for anyone with a brain.

[The Big Matt]

Yep, hardest part about it is thinning it down, and making sure your air pressure is right. And that's not hard at all, for anyone with a brain.

SHITTTTTT

I used the cans from home depot. 3 cans did most of that room

[mpulsive81]

I've got a patch to repair, we've got knockdown throughout the whole house. The patch is probably 6" x 6". The previous owners did a piss poor ass job so i sanded it down this weekend and i'm gonna try to fix it myself. Now that I think of it, they did a piss poor ass job of painting the whole damn house! They sprayed the whole house, but they're ain't a straight line in this house. This'll be my first shot at something like this so we'll see how it goes. Worst case scenario, i fuck it up, wipe it all off before it dries, and call someone off craigslist to come out and do it right.

[BlackSnake1996]

knockdown is a pain in the ass for the do it yourselfer

I retextured my entire front living room with orange peel. It was all wallpaper, and the wallpaper was glued directly to bare sheetrock, so there was no taking it off, without taking off the outer layer of sheetrock.

It came out really good, and was easy as shit
Knock down is really easier than most think. The trick is to let it dry down a little before you drag it. Most try to drag it when its too wet. We normally let it set about 15/20 minutes before dragging. Having said that, sometimes its less than 5. You just have to test it.

Bullnose/round corners are a little more tricky, because of the direction you have to drag them. While the rest of the walls are being dragged up and down, the corners have to be dragged side to side.

[lowthreeohz]

we used a bug sprayer to LIGHTLY MIST the texture and get it pliable, then scraped it off. skim coat, texture, BAM