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I am adding sand texture to the paint for a ceiling and when I apply it the consistency is very poor - some areas are really gritty and some are right. It is mixed up well. It seems that the first revolution of the roller has all the sand on it. I have tried pressing really lightly to not force it on and that doesn't help either. Any ideas?
As long as this post has been here, you've probably already finished the job by now. But just in case...
Are you trying to match an existing texture on your ceilings, or do you just want to have the sandy look?
The reason I asked is because a few weeks ago hubby and I went to my Mom's house in San Antonio to do some repairs on her ceiling. We ended up doing a whole lot more than that, but in chipping off the existing paint, hubby noticed that there was a grit in the original paint that was put on after the sheet rock went up. We hemmed and hawed on what we'd need to do to match it. We went to Home Depot and there was a texture additive called (if I remember right) stone texture. We snuck a bit from the box and it seemed like it was going to be just right. Man oh Man was it bigger than what was already there. I called Sherwin Williams and found a Sandy texture (can't remember the name now) but the guy told me that back in the 60's when many of the houses were being built in San Antonio, that the contractors added that sandy stuff to the paint, BUT they used a hopper type sprayer to spray the homes with the paint. He said the chances of ever matching it were next to nil.
Well, to make a long story short, *(yeah right, uh huh) we used the texture stuff from HD on some walls that had paneling on them. Hubby floated it with joint compound and we added the texture to the paint. We rolled it on and I think it turned out very nice. We were painting the whole room anyway, so we ran the texture on ALL of the walls, and not just the ones that had the paneling on them.
As for the ceiling repairs, we added just a handful of the stuff from Sherwin Williams to the paint on repaired spots and then rolled the whole ceiling without any additives.
If you'd like to see how it turned out, you can check out this link, [HYPERLINK@uniquetreasures.phanfare.com] and click on slide show to see the whole thing, before and after we got finished.
Good Luck and post some photos when you get yours done.
Janet - yes it's all done. I'll get a pic for you. We were adding texture to hide how bumpy and uneven our 100 year old ceiling is. The original texture I applied I went by the bag's directions and it was really thick and hard to get even. I end up sanding off the thickest areas and reapplying at 1/3 of the recommendations. It's acceptable I guess.
I will be looking forward to a picture. I have a couple more area's to paint that have a rough area. I have never heard of that finish but it just might work for me. Thanks for sharing you have given me another option.
