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Touch-Up Spackled Holes

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Master Interior Painting. The Art of Touch-ups.

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What happens here

For spackled nail holes, avoid common mistakes that lead to flat, noticeable spots. Instead of using a large flexible spackle knife to apply spackle, which can fill in the wall texture, apply a tiny amount of spackle directly into the hole with your finger. Immediately wipe off any excess spackle around the hole to preserve the surrounding wall texture. Once the spackle is completely dry, use a dry brush with minimal, diluted paint. Dab the paint onto the spackled area and gently feather the edges into the existing wall to blend it seamlessly, preventing sheen buildup.

Goal: Seamlessly conceal spackled nail holes while maintaining wall texture and avoiding sheen.

Tools and materials

  • Finger N/A — Applying small amounts of spackle
  • Diluted paint — Painting over spackled holes
  • Spackle — Filling nail holes

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get a lot of Sheen buildup all right so 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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