Matching Wall Texture to Sheetrock Repair

Video Transcript

"My name is Shannon Kniep on behalf of expert village. And so you want to make sure that you do this process of sanding and re-coating at least three times it sometimes requires up to four depending on how much variation you have in your planks on your ceiling but if you do that process and do like I showed you, you're going to get a flat plane and you do it right and you're not even going to see it once you go back in to texture it. Now one final word on texture. There's different ways that you can match texture that's already on. It can be tricky but in a situation like this you're going to use a tool. It might be a crow?s foot, might be something else maybe just any kind of a brush that you're going to go on and try and match that texture on this once it is completely flat. Now that tool, what you're going to do is you're going to mix your compound just like you did before where you've got your compound in your bucket you take it out and put it in a tray but you're going to put some water in it so it's a little soupier so it runs a little bit more than it would be say for just filling in the joists, and that's going to give you a little runnier mixture but when you dip your brush into it and you go to match, or a sponge a sponge can work really well sometimes, when you go to put it on there, it's going to get sort of that a little but runny drippy effect kind of like what you have on here now. I'm Shannon Kniep with Expert Village, thank you."