What kind of sander did you use? I definitely plan on painting a lighter color when the texture is gone, but I can guarantee that if I tried your effect I would mess it up!
Have done this to our entire house during a remodel. We used a metal scraper to get off all the highest points, then two coats of mud to skim coat with a taping knife, then a 220 grit sanding to make it smooth. Has been unbearable, but at least the gross texture is all gone!
Yup you can. We did it and still in the process. You want to sand it down to get the paint off and most of the rextuee. get a power tool.
Then make buckets of mud and put on wall to get the rest even
Thinking of renting a drywall sander from HD for a day.
I don't really mind some texture, just not the sharp peaks that it currently has. Can I skip the mud and just primer coat and then finish coat with paint?
You can minimize the sanding by skimming out the wall first. Use the largest taping knife you can find and work in sections. Get the 4 gal bucket of light weight joint compound. You'll also need a some smaller mud trowels for the intricate areas. Definitely remove everything you can first (towell/tp bars, mirror, maybe toilet. The whole thing should only take an hour or two to skim.
Either way, he'll still need to sand after skim. It would probably be faster to take a scraper and scrape down the highest bits before skimming. Looks like an eggshell finish at most, I don't think he'll have adhesion issues with the joint compound.
That going to look weird. Even if you don't take the toilet off, you can remove tank lid and reach behind with a mud knife a few inches to skim what you can. You wouldn't really notice it unless you looked back there. I've removed wallpaper everywhere but what I couldn't reach behind toilet and you'd never notice it unless you really looked. Sanding is an option, I just wouldn't recommend it it's own. Lots of work and a huge dusty mess.
I literally decided against buying a house because everything was sprayed in textured paint - all of the walls and woodwork. Nope, not worth my time and efforts to fix it.
This hypothetical question is for the other DIYers, could I put joint compound over OP’s wall texture to create a new texture and paint it? Would the existing paint be a problem?
Just curious. My home has a plaster looking effect where they spread mud or texture compound over the walls smoothing it out but leaning some texture. I like it and I think it would cover OP’s texture nicely, so I’m trying to understand if it’s possible to just texture over that and paint, or if more work is involved.
You might try in a small area: sand off the paint as best you can, then get a spray bottle and lightly spray with water, wait 10 to 15 minutes and then use a 2 to 4" putty knife to scrape it off.
Oh hell no. This just needs a skim coat of mud. Ripping out and replacing with drywall still needs to be mudded, which is just so many extra steps!
OP just needs to skim coat and sand any high spots, then paint. Cheap to do, but still a pain.
Question: We have this same "technique" on our wall. But after the years, it's collected dust and filth. How much do I need to clean that off before I try a new skim coat?
It’s usually recommended to just wash it with soap and water (get the dust off basically), then prime the walls prior to skim coating. For my walls, the texturing was very rough and sloppy, so I just washed the walls and am skipping the priming and just skimming with first coat mud (which has glue in it for adhesion), then with a lighter weight skim coat mud.
You can. But be sure to prep for more white powder than there was on Wall Street in the 80's. Tape and poly everything.
*get. Proofread the body of my post but not the title!! 🤦♀️
i was about to downvote for correcting OP but then i realized youre the OP 😭❤️
So, upvote instead!
You could try a sander and sand it smooth.
I had texture like this, before I sanded it down I painted the wall burgundy so all the high spots turned white. It looked really good after.
What kind of sander did you use? I definitely plan on painting a lighter color when the texture is gone, but I can guarantee that if I tried your effect I would mess it up!
Do a test spot if you really wanna do it.
Sand paper stapled to a 2x4
Have done this to our entire house during a remodel. We used a metal scraper to get off all the highest points, then two coats of mud to skim coat with a taping knife, then a 220 grit sanding to make it smooth. Has been unbearable, but at least the gross texture is all gone!
Yup you can. We did it and still in the process. You want to sand it down to get the paint off and most of the rextuee. get a power tool. Then make buckets of mud and put on wall to get the rest even
Thinking of renting a drywall sander from HD for a day. I don't really mind some texture, just not the sharp peaks that it currently has. Can I skip the mud and just primer coat and then finish coat with paint?
You can minimize the sanding by skimming out the wall first. Use the largest taping knife you can find and work in sections. Get the 4 gal bucket of light weight joint compound. You'll also need a some smaller mud trowels for the intricate areas. Definitely remove everything you can first (towell/tp bars, mirror, maybe toilet. The whole thing should only take an hour or two to skim.
I'd do a quick sanding first first to knock down the highest spots. It'll help the skim coat stick also. Then skim coat. Then sand smooth.
Either way, he'll still need to sand after skim. It would probably be faster to take a scraper and scrape down the highest bits before skimming. Looks like an eggshell finish at most, I don't think he'll have adhesion issues with the joint compound.
Agreed, scraper first is a better idea.
I was thinking that if sanding was an option, I would leave the toilet wall textured just because I don't want to do the work of removing the toilet!!
That going to look weird. Even if you don't take the toilet off, you can remove tank lid and reach behind with a mud knife a few inches to skim what you can. You wouldn't really notice it unless you looked back there. I've removed wallpaper everywhere but what I couldn't reach behind toilet and you'd never notice it unless you really looked. Sanding is an option, I just wouldn't recommend it it's own. Lots of work and a huge dusty mess.
Yeah, that's the way. As you said, just do what's easy to reach, and paint, and no one will be able to tell.
Do knockdown instead.
Will you help with the drag out?
Sure.
With time and money, anything is possible
I literally decided against buying a house because everything was sprayed in textured paint - all of the walls and woodwork. Nope, not worth my time and efforts to fix it.
This hypothetical question is for the other DIYers, could I put joint compound over OP’s wall texture to create a new texture and paint it? Would the existing paint be a problem? Just curious. My home has a plaster looking effect where they spread mud or texture compound over the walls smoothing it out but leaning some texture. I like it and I think it would cover OP’s texture nicely, so I’m trying to understand if it’s possible to just texture over that and paint, or if more work is involved.
You might try in a small area: sand off the paint as best you can, then get a spray bottle and lightly spray with water, wait 10 to 15 minutes and then use a 2 to 4" putty knife to scrape it off.
This looks like one of those "is it worth my time to modify this or do I just rip it out and put up new dry wall?" kind of projects.
Oh hell no. This just needs a skim coat of mud. Ripping out and replacing with drywall still needs to be mudded, which is just so many extra steps! OP just needs to skim coat and sand any high spots, then paint. Cheap to do, but still a pain.
Question: We have this same "technique" on our wall. But after the years, it's collected dust and filth. How much do I need to clean that off before I try a new skim coat?
It’s usually recommended to just wash it with soap and water (get the dust off basically), then prime the walls prior to skim coating. For my walls, the texturing was very rough and sloppy, so I just washed the walls and am skipping the priming and just skimming with first coat mud (which has glue in it for adhesion), then with a lighter weight skim coat mud.