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Apply Metallic Grit with Random Rolling and Troweling

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What is Metallic Grit? AMAZING Wall Finish.

What happens here

This step involves a coordinated effort between two individuals. The first person 'random rolls' a heavy, thick coat of the metallic grit product onto the wall. Immediately following, the second person uses a Boero flex trowel with very light pressure to 'random trowel' the product, creating the desired textured effect. The goal is to barely hit the surface with the trowel, spreading the product without pulling it off. To ensure a wet edge and allow more working time, a product like Boero's 'Long Open Time Glaze' can be added to the metallic grit. Work in approximately 3-foot sections, rolling back into the previously worked area with the trowel to maintain a continuous, seamless pattern. The microglass beads within the product create a 'scratchy noise' as the trowel moves, which is normal and helps prevent 'peek-a-boo' effects where the base coat shows through. The key is to avoid repetitive patterns and keep the roller saturated to prevent pulling product off the wall.

Goal: Apply the metallic grit product thickly with a roller, then immediately follow with a flex trowel using light pressure to create a random texture. Maintain a wet edge by working in small sections and using glaze to extend working time.

Tools and materials

  • 6-inch Microfiber Roller
  • Boero Flex Trowel
  • Boero Long Open Time Glaze Boero
  • Boero Metallic Grit 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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