3 Drywall & Plaster Repair Techniques to Consider While Preparing Your Interior Painting

3 Drywall & Plaster Repair Techniques to Consider While Preparing Your Interior Painting

Drywall repair is considered as one of the most common interior painting preparation tasks. In fact, there is not even any interior painting project where some drywall repair is not needed. In most cases, the repairing job contains a simply spackling small holes for hangers to support pictures or shelving. Others are larger repairs that generally require drywall patches and replacement. Furthermore, door handles piercing the drywall, removing mirrors from wall, closing in a door or window, and water damage can all require installing places of drywall.

Usually, every interior painted wall has a particular texture. The most common textures are smooth, orange peel, and knock down. Following are three techniques from Clarksville Painters for each one of these textures:

Smooth:

This is where the drywall is not incorporated with any texturing added. As an interior painting preparation, you need to check whether the drywall is properly hung, joints are taped, and then whether it is floated along with the drywall screws. You can emulate this simplest texture by using the following steps:

You can apply the drywall mud to the holes or repaired areas with a proper drywall knife.

Plaster repair and sand the patch smooth.

Use a drywall primer in all patched areas.

Use appropriate roller cover nap size to paint the wall. Usually the nap size is one-half to three-quarter inch.

Orange Peel:

In order to repair the orange peel, the drywall companies generally use large pumps and spray a drywall mixture onto the walls. Orange peel is little harder to emulate. You need to apply the following techniques to emulate the orange peel:

You need to normally float the repaired drywall. It is even important to sand smooth or plaster repair the drywall.

You can apply drywall, paint mixture using the three-eighths or half-ince inch roller nap. The mixture should have a basic consistency similar to pancake batter. It is advisable to use ten parts drywall, with one to two parts paint.

The best is to apply a drywall primer before painting the patched areas.

Knockdown:

It is also known as splatter which is accomplished by spraying globs of drywall mud onto the walls. After a certain period the mud will be dried but still moist, resulting the “splatter” smoothed with large flat plastic knockdown knife.

Proper and complete drywall and plaster repair is the key to an excellent interior house painting project. As a painting contractor Clarksville painters well understand that the preparation is the hardest and most time consuming part of painting.