Painting - Painting textured walls
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05-28-01, 06:33 PM
Does anyone have advice about painting a straight line over textured walls? We have coved ceilings as well as textured walls and we have painted one wall red. The coverage itself looks pretty good, but trying to make a razor-sharp line where the red meets the white is very difficult. Any advice would be appreciated.
Sonnie Layne
05-29-01, 09:28 AM
Angie,
I know your dilema well. Some textures are practically impossible to cut-in. Even for someone with a lot of experience it's practically impossible. Knock down textures are about the worst because of the dimension.
Typically I just have to leave the work knowing that it's good enough. I've never had a client complain, but it drives me crazy!!! Here's a fix that I just used two weeks ago for a client who is of all things an editor for a home and garden magazine...
There were knock-down ceilings and walls, all walls were deeply saturated colours (seems I've been doing a lot of red lately, hehehe) with off-white ceilings. I couldn't stand the irregular lines, she couldn't either. I took out my 1/2" putty knife and applied a narrow line of joint compound (spackle could be used) at the juncture. Just enough to smooth it out a bit and eleviate the problem. Sounds bad, I know, but it is less noticeable than you'd think, certainly less noticeable than irregular cut-in lines.
my two cents,
Sonnie
I know your dilema well. Some textures are practically impossible to cut-in. Even for someone with a lot of experience it's practically impossible. Knock down textures are about the worst because of the dimension.
Typically I just have to leave the work knowing that it's good enough. I've never had a client complain, but it drives me crazy!!! Here's a fix that I just used two weeks ago for a client who is of all things an editor for a home and garden magazine...
There were knock-down ceilings and walls, all walls were deeply saturated colours (seems I've been doing a lot of red lately, hehehe) with off-white ceilings. I couldn't stand the irregular lines, she couldn't either. I took out my 1/2" putty knife and applied a narrow line of joint compound (spackle could be used) at the juncture. Just enough to smooth it out a bit and eleviate the problem. Sounds bad, I know, but it is less noticeable than you'd think, certainly less noticeable than irregular cut-in lines.
my two cents,
Sonnie