Here are some great tips and information for applying texture to your walls. You can also add a tapestry or a large-scale piece of art that incorporates texture and pizzazz into a room. When smoothing out textured walls, it takes about 6 hours or more, can be messy, and costs anywhere between $200 – $700, depending on if you DIY or hire a professional.Īdding shelves or decor to a smooth wall is easy and affordable. Smooth surfaces are easy to paint and hang stuff on. Level 4 is acceptable, but level 5 baby-smooth is the desired result. You get to choose from five different levels of smoothness. Smooth walls are in most homes and are versatile when it comes to decor and style. Although it may be easier if you have a scraper tool or putty knife. When using peel-and-stick textures or wallpaper, it takes about an hour or less to apply, doesn’t make a mess, costs around $30, and requires no tools. When using a compound, it takes days to dry, is a messy process, can cost around $120 to DIY, and requires some tools. You can use peel-and-stick textures or premixed compounds. They’re slightly harder to keep clean than smooth walls, but they can add some depth to the room. Just have a go, a bag of plaster isn’t expensive.Textured walls can range from almost smooth to extremely rough. However I usually just use a mist water spray bottle. You will also need a mortar board and stand and a water brush for the polishing coat. Also it’s worth hiring or buying a professional mixer and mixing bucket. Always plaster from the bottom of the wall to the top, and make sure all you equipment is clean as a little bit of grit will spoil the whole wall! Having professional tools also helps, I use a marshalltown permashape trowel, which doesn’t need wearing in, which I love. Plaster always needs to be much runnier than you’d expect and you need to flatten in the first coat and get the second coat on at the right time. You need to ‘get a feel’ for it really and the easiest way to do this is is to actually be shown. The difficulty is in getting the plaster consistency right and getting it on the wall before it dries. If they still have plaster on them you will just need multifinish plaster for the skim coats. If the walls are back to brick you will need hardwall plaster and to key the surface before skim coats. As it turned out I wasn’t too bad and got better with practice. I got to practice without messing up my own walls. It was an excellent course and I loved it. I am quite DIY minded and have done up a few houses in the past. I brought a new house and did a plastering course (£185) so I could attempt to plaster it myself after seeing the prices of plasterers. I should probably use different plaster for the first layer, but hey, it works.Īlso, finish the edges with decorators caulk after you're done and decorating. I tend to do the whole room, then give it a gentle sand, then go back over the whole thing again with a very thin finishing coat. Then if it's awful, sand it back (masks essential, lots of dust) and try again. Just start on the easiest wall, one where you don't have to stand on step stools, or work around windows or doorways. Drips of plaster are a pita, so dust sheets, etc. Make sure you also sand back any bits that stick out. My tips would be, prep! Make sure you pull out wall plugs and fill the holes with poly filler, and give them a quick sand back. It works, it does what I need, and it gives quite a nice finish. Having it done professionally does look better, but doing myself costs a faction of paying a plasterer, and still looks a lot better than when I started. You have to finish each wall in one go, no 15 minute breaks to rest your arm and have a cuppa. I will say, I have had no training, just watched videos and thought I'd give it a go. Doing the downstairs toilet next week hopefully. I did DD2's room, and one bathroom so far.
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