Hi all! I am new to this site so please forgive me if I have overlooked this post being somewhere else burried within the threads....
I just bought a house and the drywall has awful textures applied to it and I need to know what I am going to have to do to remove the said texturing.
1. In one room it appears that someone has mixed sand with the paint or some sort of additive that makes the wall feel very very gritty. as a matter of fact if you rub your knuckles against it you can peel the skin back. The underlaying texture is an orange peel/egg shell. I would like to have the wall with same texture minus the grit... any suggestions.
2. I also have other walls that have a very thick texture with hard lines press into it.. one has mentioned it to be like a terracotta style or something like that. it is very thick and I would like to smooth it out and give it a knockdown or orange peel texture something a little more subtle...
3. My third problem room has a texture that looks like it was applied with some sort of a brush almost like something that you would do on a ceiling but they did it on the walls... again would like to go with knockdown or orange peel...
can I just go over the current texture with another?
Do I have to replace the rock and start over?
or is there a process that I can go through for removal of a texture?
Any help is appreciated I have 2 months to close and this is our next step...
I just bought a house and the drywall has awful textures applied to it and I need to know what I am going to have to do to remove the said texturing.
1. In one room it appears that someone has mixed sand with the paint or some sort of additive that makes the wall feel very very gritty. as a matter of fact if you rub your knuckles against it you can peel the skin back. The underlaying texture is an orange peel/egg shell. I would like to have the wall with same texture minus the grit... any suggestions.
2. I also have other walls that have a very thick texture with hard lines press into it.. one has mentioned it to be like a terracotta style or something like that. it is very thick and I would like to smooth it out and give it a knockdown or orange peel texture something a little more subtle...
3. My third problem room has a texture that looks like it was applied with some sort of a brush almost like something that you would do on a ceiling but they did it on the walls... again would like to go with knockdown or orange peel...
can I just go over the current texture with another?
Do I have to replace the rock and start over?
or is there a process that I can go through for removal of a texture?
Any help is appreciated I have 2 months to close and this is our next step...