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Apply Metallic Grit with Random Roll and Trowel Technique

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What is Metallic Grit? AMAZING Wall Finish.

What happens here

This technique is best performed with two people working in tandem. The first person uses the pre-wet 6-inch microfiber roller to apply a very thick and heavy, but randomly rolled, coat of the metallic grit paint onto the wall. Immediately following, the second person uses the Boero Flex Trowel with very light pressure, barely touching the surface, to create random patterns and knock down any stippling from the roller application. The micro-glass beads within the Metallic Grit are designed to create a scratching noise when troweled and prevent the product from being pulled off the wall, allowing for a forgiving application. It is important to work in small sections (approximately 3-4 feet at a time) to maintain a wet edge and ensure a seamless, non-repetitive pattern across the entire wall. The goal is to avoid any discernible, repeatable patterns for a natural, organic look. If a pattern starts to emerge, vary your trowel movements to break it up. This allows for easy touch-ups as there's no fixed pattern to match.

Goal: Work in a team of two: one person applies a thick layer of metallic grit paint with a damp microfiber roller, while the other immediately follows with a flex trowel using light, random motions to create the desired texture.

Tools and materials

  • 6-inch Microfiber Roller
  • Boero Flex Trowel Boero
  • Boero Metallic Grit Paint Boero

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money fine fine so got to put it on really really thick heavy heavy and thick he's gonna roll it on I'm gonna random roll behind him and start doing some trowel we gotta give him some space here yeah give me some space here or he's gonna really start getting irritated you don't want to see me irritated so I think on this wall we've purchased two gallons of the product so this unlike the the suede this takes a lot more product in the aluminum the aluminum goes a lot farther too so thank you I'm almost about ready to if you're working alone even if you're as a professional as a team I highly recommend putting glaze into the product gives you more working time very light pressure on the trowel barely just hitting the surface it's gonna just work my magic with this trowel if I need to you know wet my roller just keep loading up you don't want your roller to dry out and start you know pulling product off the wall so I'm gonna make sure I just keep my roller saturated here all right Chris quiz time when it's time what is making that scratching noise when you are doing that troweling magic so that's um that's good trivia here so and it will talk about that micro glass beads in the product here is making that scratching noise and unlike the metallic coating if you you can actually you'll run your trowel and you can actually pull it off you all the way down to the paint itself on the coating and create you know what we call peek-a-boos the micro grass beads actually keep your trowel you away from the surface and keep you from having those kind of like peek-a-boos so right there I probably moved a little bit too far ahead of Chris probably should try to keep it at about a three-foot section at a time and then work back into what he's trying so that we can keep the wet edge he's Chris and he's full of magic so he'll probably end up catching up to me anyways but it's probably a good rule of thumb to try to work in about three three to four foot sections at a time and what would happen if you didn't random roll this stuff so the problem with wood not random rolling it or it comes down to patterns if you end up creating a pattern that is repeatable that people can see then the moment that you leave that pattern it's gonna stand out to the eye so the goal is if you if you work some sort of random roll random troweling pattern on these walls you're it's a lot more forgiving and it's far more likely that you're going to get away with a wall that looks good because having…

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