Textured paint for walls - what is it used for?
Repair is waiting for each of us. Someone does it several times a year, and others - every few years. After making a decision to do regular or extraordinary repairs, the question of finishing materials appears. One of such materials is textured paint. This is quite a quality material that is used to create a rustic style or as a disguise. It perfectly visually smooths out any unevenness of the walls, which gives your rooms a perfectly smooth geometric shape. It's very easy to work with it, so the roller is in hand, and we start saving on the masters who are asking for pretty decent money for finishing.
There is nothing perfect, and the textured paint for the walls is full of this confirmation phrase. Along with a huge number of pluses, there are some disadvantages. We start with positive features of , which are many. The first and most important positive feature is that the application of textured paint visually aligns even the most ugly walls, which is much cheaper than their processing with the help of special materials.
The second plus is a fairly cheap material of high quality. The thing is that it is made from cheap components, because of what its cost is low, and, accordingly, for us, as final buyers, this is a significant plus.
The third plus is a huge amount of color shades, which you can then adjust yourself, adding a certain number of different additives. It turns out that you wanted or even better.
Also a plus is easy application to any surface. Forget about the brush, you only need a roller.
From minuses it is worth noting that because the paint visually equals the walls, it also only visually reduces the room. This minus is not significant, but still negative. It also takes some time to apply it to the surface. Here, perhaps, and all the variety of features of this material.
Preparation process
Like any kind of repair work, the finish requires surface preparation , on which the paint will be applied, but this is easily done on its own. To be sure, pay attention to the video "how to paint walls with textured paint".
First thing you need to move all the furniture, remove shelves for flowers and stuff. Now it is necessary to tear off the old wallpaper, and those places in the wall where the cracks formed, to cover with putty. If there are sharp protrusions on the wall, carefully cut them with a knife or a grinder. Next, primrutuyte surface, then let it dry well, usually the instruction suggests for this to wait a day.
How to apply a textured paint
It's time to work with the walls. To do this, using a drill and a mixer "mixer" we raise the working material in a bucket or a pelvis. Ideally fit large buckets of 25 liters, because using them, you can make the volume bigger and do not be afraid that some amount can splash when the stirring is active, or simply do not have enough bucket capacity to get the color you need. It is best to prepare the paint exactly as indicated in the instructions, but you can experiment and it's not forbidden.
Having made a lot of the necessary consistency, we pick up the roller and start work. By the way, the roller can be chosen special, structural, which will leave a certain pattern on the walls, if you use the paint for decorative purposes. This pattern depends on your ideas, try to reconcile it with the size of the room, for example, you can not use a cumbersome drawing in a small room, say, in the bathroom.
As in the case of watercolor painting, should be painted from the top down .That's why we stand on the ladder, take the bucket, dip the roller and start the painting the wall from the very far corner. Do not regret paint, the more you dunk the roller in a bucket of paint, the better will be the texture on the wall, which in turn looks just fine. Try not to paint the second time on the already grabbed paint, and it happens quickly. So work harder.
After painting everything in this way, inspect the wall. Where there is little paint in your opinion, correct it, although, we already warned, it is better to avoid such modifications. At the end of the work, it remains to wait for drying, as a rule, completely the surfaces will be ready in a day.