textured walls painting technique

Textured Walls Painting Technique

It’s a challenge for every expert to paint textured walls. This painting is very much different from plain painting as there are a multitude of angled surfaces, both large & small. Paint brushes & rollers will be taken care as it skips over while painting.

How to Paint Textured Walls

You need to use the right equipment and a different painting technique.

Preparing to Paint.Painting with a Brush.Painting with a Roller.Painting with an Airless Sprayer.

Preparing to Paint

Start normally as usual, covers the floor & furniture, fill all small holes, tape off the trim and cut in the corners with a brush. After starting choose semi-gloss alkyd paint. Alkyd paint is also easier to clean, which is important on textured walls because they attract more dirt. Don't paint a textured wall white. Test an alkyd primer on a small portion of the wall.

Painting with a brush

Choose a wide, soft brush, called a wall brush. Paint diagonally first in one direction, then the other. This will help ensure that paint covers every part of the textured wall. It also hides the brush strokes.

Painting with a roller

Because of the amount of paint that the roller will hold and the increased possibility of splatter, use the roller more slowly than if you were painting a smooth wall. Dip the roller in the paint several times and rake it over a screen to distribute and take off the excess paint.

Painting with an Airless Sprayer

Paint in 4-foot horizontal strokes & Overlap the each previous section by about 50 percent & Practice on a piece of scrap wood to learn how fast to lay down the paint.

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