So I swear by my friends, the magic trowel and dustless drywall compound. I had to skimcoat all of the ceilings in my entire condo because the previous owner applied a junky sand texture finish. There's a product and series of generics that allow you to easily and quickly apply a nice looking skimcoat. To skim coat walls with a roller, you’ll need: Joint compound. First, you will need to gather all the materials you need.
#Skim coating textured walls how to#
You also should google magic drywall trowel. We’ll show you how to skim coat walls with a roller in just eight steps. It's a couple bucks more a 5 gallon pail at your local big box store and worth about ten times that amount. If you feel that it's necessary to apply skimcoat, you should avail yourself of dustless drywall compound. It's a neat little trick by which you suck the dust out of your house by pointing a fan out the window. If you do decide on sanding down the paint or a skimcoat check out this youtube clip. It seems that, with wall finishing, you can easily make a mountain out of a molehill. There are no trophies for creating unnecessary work for yourself. But are you sure you need to skim coat or sand the wall? Perhaps one or two coats of primer will be enough to even out any drywall marks and texture? Or maybe just a couple of layers of the chalkboard paint? (Or some combination of layers of both the primer and the chalkboard?) Honestly, unless you're dealing with some strange issues, that might do it. First off, I've never worked with chalkboard paint.
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Don't despair! You have a number of options for limiting the mess.