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Prepare Wall and Understand Base Coat Requirements

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What is Metallic Grit? AMAZING Wall Finish.

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What happens here

The wall is pre-coated with a base color, specifically Sherwin-Williams 'Dovetail' in a Duration Home Matte finish. It is crucial to use a matte or eggshell sheen for the base coat. A flat sheen would absorb too much of the metallic product, while a high-sheen product like semi-gloss would cause the metallic paint to skid and not adhere properly. Ensure all edges, trim, and outlets are precisely masked off with painter's tape to protect adjacent surfaces. The surface should be dry and ready for the metallic finish application.

Goal: The wall must be prepared with a matte or eggshell finish base coat to ensure proper absorption and prevent the metallic product from skidding. Mask off any areas not to be painted.

Tools and materials

  • Painter's Tape
  • Base Coat Paint Sherwin-Williams

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our wall pre coded and what did we what's our base coat done with John so this is the color dovetail to sherwin color this was under coated with a duration home Matt yep so if you watch some of the other videos it's going to be important that you find the right Sheen for these metallic coating products you want to go with a matte or some sort of eggshell type of Sheen because if you go flat it's going to absorb a lot more of the product than you want it to absorb if you go with like a semi-gloss or something that's a higher Sheen then you're gonna have product kind of skidding around and moving and we don't want that that makes me very sad that's not gonna be a good thing so it's already done it's already dry we're gonna begin doing our metallic grit finish and this is gonna look really cool and we also have a special guest on the pro from Bo arrow all the way from Chicago Ed Mattingly is here to make sure you know we mind our P's and Q's and we do it yeah we do it right yeah cuz I know yeah yeah he is a cruel taskmaster yeah so stay tuned sorry ed okay John here we go where our walls prepped ready to go we've got our Cody metallic grit and I think you know this

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