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Painting Textured Drywall (New or Patched)

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What happens here

When painting new drywall or patched drywall areas with a textured finish (like orange peel or knockdown), back rolling is highly recommended. New drywall is extremely porous, and a PVA (polyvinyl acetate) primer is essential to seal these pores. After spraying the PVA primer, back rolling it ensures maximum penetration into the texture, which is crucial for proper adhesion. Subsequent paint coats can also benefit from back rolling to fully encapsulate the texture, especially if the texture is rough or deep. Without back rolling, the paint may not fully penetrate, leading to potential peeling or an uneven finish.

Goal: Apply back rolling to textured drywall for optimal primer penetration and adhesion.

Tools and materials

  • Airless Sprayer — Applying primer and paint
  • Drywall — Textured wall surface
  • Paint Roller — Back rolling for penetration and even texture
  • Paint — Topcoats on the textured wall
  • PVA Primer — Sealing porous new drywall surfaces

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not hit all so I'm going to talk about one more scenario and I got another scenario behind me over here I've got a smooth wall over here and I've got a textured wall behind me on the other side of the room right here and that textured wall it's kind of a heavy orange pale or what some people would consider like a heavy knock down texture and it's previously painted and it's previously painted so I probably would not have two back wall at all if I did back well I can spray paint on there and if for any reason I wanted to back roll it isn't gonna show any stippling it's not gonna show any brush strokes it's a very very forgiving texture and that's what you see predominantly where we live I know I traveled been over to the UK I've been I'm all over Europe and countries and a level-five finish is very very common where I live I've only seen it you know a handful of times in my career in Boise Idaho what you see is an orange peel texture or a knockdown texture in the very first time if that's bare drywall brand-new drywall it's highly recommended that you backrub rush or back not back rushing back rolling you'd be brushing for days if you're brushing it you back roll it and we typically would use like an eighteen inch roller if it's a bare drywall or sheetrock it's gonna be extremely porous and you do have to put a PVA primer on it to seal the pores of that in it and that's where I would probably do my back rolling process is I'm gonna spray that drywall with a PVA primer and I'm gonna back roll it then and then I'm gonna spray two top coats over the top of that and that is a situation even though it's a textured wall you know I would probably back back brush or back roll it not back brush but I'd be back rolling it so I'm going to talk about another

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