Hey folks! What’s the best material to use to repair a textured ceiling? The texturing looks like it was done by pressing a trowel against the ceiling and pulling it away, leaving a bunch of little “peaks” My local Lowe’s told me to use drywall compound, but the color doesn’t quite match (too yellow).
Thanks.
Mark
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Drywall compound is what they used the first time. What's too yellow ... the old ceiling or the new compound? Joint compound is dang near real white when it dries. The old ceiling could have tobacco stains. You can tint the joint compound with a little paint, but be sure to do a test patch on a scrap of plywood to see what the color is after a day or two of drying before you screw up the ceiling too badly. Or, here's a novel idea ... after the patch dries, repaint the entire ceiling.
I'm sorry, I thought you wanted it done the right way.
Edited 12/18/2004 10:54 pm ET by Ed Hilton
you're likely looking at a stomp texture which was done with a drywall broom. It looks kind of like a broom (thus the name) but the bristles are all flared out around the edges. Mud gets rolled on the ceiling, the broom stipples the surface (by stomping it - this thing goes on the end of a pole) and helps to even out the amound of mud from place to place. You adjust the size of the peak simply by cutting the mud with water. Uncut mud out of the box you get stalactites. Too much water you just have ripples. Play with it. Very easy to blend back in if you get the consistancy right. When you're all done, paint it all with a flat paint. Color difference gone.
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stomp texture Sounds like Lucy doing the grapes in Italy.I'm sorry, I thought you wanted it done the right way.
Thanks! Good advice.
Conserve your energy. I just spent the morning doing that. Went through 4 buckets of mud . . . sanded first, and knock down. My arms are fragged."If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." - Mark Twain
Had to repair a ceiling like this a few months ago. Set up several mockups of the ceiling in my shop and played around with mud and water until I got the right size of 'spikes'. I used a 12 or 14" flat finishers trowel, smushed it onto the rolled mud on the ceilng, then pulled it straight down. I used a brush to prime and paint to match, the painting process tends to knock down some of the peaks. Funky finish, though, and not one I'd want in my house, but they weren't paying me for my opinion.