Knocking down drywall texture
#1
04-20-19, 07:39 AM
Knocking down drywall texture
In a new house that needs love.
In one room, the texture is too much. It’s too pointy for lack of a better word. Perhaps when it was done, they didn’t knock it down before it dried.
It’s got at least two coats of paint on it right now. I am getting ready to repaint it.
Is it is simple as going over it with a drywall screen to knock it down and then prime it and paint it?
Pardon the newbie question.
In one room, the texture is too much. It’s too pointy for lack of a better word. Perhaps when it was done, they didn’t knock it down before it dried.
It’s got at least two coats of paint on it right now. I am getting ready to repaint it.
Is it is simple as going over it with a drywall screen to knock it down and then prime it and paint it?
Pardon the newbie question.
#3
04-20-19, 12:27 PM
Any risk about trying that I should be aware of short of overdoing it and having to redo all the texture?
#5
04-20-19, 02:41 PM
Member
I did the same in the LR (living room) ...but knocked it all down. Had to do a repair so I decided to take it all down (our heat vents are in the ceiling too). Its been textured since '84 on plaster and lathe ceiling, not drywall, so I could go a little rough. I used a flat stiff floor trowel and got it pretty flat, then skim coated a few times. Not perfect but at least there's no texture. In the DR, I just knocked it down to a 'smoother' bump shall we say and painted..
So if your ceiling is drywall, go easy at first as Marksr suggests.
Lets us know how it goes.
So if your ceiling is drywall, go easy at first as Marksr suggests.
Lets us know how it goes.
