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Address Textured Wall Imperfections

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Master Interior Painting. The Art of Touch-ups.

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What happens here

For holes in textured walls (e.g., from nails), avoid overfilling with spackle or drywall compound, which can flatten the texture. Instead, apply a very small amount of spackle with your fingertip directly into the hole. Immediately wipe off any excess spackle from the surrounding textured area with your finger, ensuring the original texture is not filled in. Once the spackle is completely dry, apply thinned paint using the dabbing and dry-feathering technique demonstrated in the previous step. This maintains the wall's texture and blends the repair seamlessly.

Goal: This step shows the correct method to fill small holes on textured walls without compromising the texture, followed by careful paint application.

Tools and materials

  • Fingertip
  • Spackle/Drywall Compound
  • Thinned Interior Wall Paint

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I got a scenario right here we've got a um hole that was in the wall spackled and one of the things that I I'll see you know inexperienced people do they'll Spackle a hole take it like a um flexible spackle knife and just swipe a um swath a spackle over there the Spackle end up filling up the texture around the hole and then you're going to end up with a nice flat spot what you typically um what you should do is just take you a little bit of SP go fill it in with your finger and and then wipe the excess off around the texture so the texture doesn't get filled in now once it's dry I'm going to take my brush just a little bit of paint on the end of my brush and all I'm going to do is DOB it over this area right here and touch that up so I don't want to take and put a Big Brush Mark on here I'm just going to dob it feather it out just like that what we call this is what we call dry feather in it out around that spot now that spot is um all touched up right here I'm going to let that dry all right so we've got

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