Orange Peel Wall Texture
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Orange peel wall texture. Orange peel texture refers to a finishing style for painted or unpainted walls. Orange peel texturing is a wall finish technique this has a uniform covering of small bumps. Technically you can do it by hand too but this method is best left to the pros. Instead of the traditional smooth finish an orange peel texture creates small bumps grooves and valleys to make your wall feel like an orange rind.
Aerosol spray texture is a great choice for patching and texturing small rooms and accent walls in occupied areas like schools offices and health facilities. The homax products 20 oz. Texture mud is pumped through a long hose to a special spray nozzle. Orange peel texture is very similar to spray splatter knockdown.
For a painted wall simply go over the coat of paint with a coat of primer. In the spray nozzle the air and mud combine causing texture mud to splatter into thousands of small droplets. Designed to patch orange peel and splatter textures this versatile texture matches fine medium and coarse textures. It is sometimes called a splatter or eggshell texture.
Prepare your walls if you re going to apply orange peel texture to a wall that has already been wallpapered you ll need to remove the wallpaper sand the wall down to a smooth surface and then apply a coat of paint primer. No matter how the texture was originally created for most repair methods you ll be fixing damaged areas using a premixed wallboard compound.