Light Orange Peel Wall Texture
Running parallel to the mud hose is a high pressure air line.
Light orange peel wall texture. These droplets of drywall mud land on walls and gradually merge to form a consistent thin layer of mud across the surface. With knock down the texture is sprayed more heavily and then the tips are all flattened with a trowel which results in a look that has some flat areas and some dimpled texture like this example. An orange peel texture looks exactly as it sounds it resembles the peel of an orange. Orange peel is a splatter type texture that involves spraying plaster in a pattern over your readied walls.
The orange peel texture roller method allows you to add texture to your walls without an airless spray painter. You can spray your own drywall orange peel texture match the existing texture. Orange peel in terms of walls and painting is a light texture that hides imperfections and blemishes but without creating an obvious relief or pattern on the wall. Orange peel texturing is a wall finish technique this has a uniform covering of small bumps.
Orange peel texture is very similar to spray splatter knockdown. You will need to prime the walls ahead of time so that the texture has a smooth dirt free surface to stick to. Technically you can do it by hand too but this method is best left to the pros. Use a roller with a thick nap to apply the mix to the wall.
No matter how the texture was originally created for most repair methods you ll be fixing damaged areas using a premixed wallboard compound. Mix joint compound and water to a thick yogurt like consistency. In the spray nozzle the air and mud combine causing texture mud to splatter into thousands of small droplets. This means that you re going to need a gun and air compressor to get a good spray going.
Wait 10 minutes to reapply a second coat for thicker texture. 3 in our series if you have done your own drywall repair this is how you m. Texture mud is pumped through a long hose to a special spray nozzle.