Wall Textures

Michael Holigan: Well after you home is taped and bedded, it's time to add a texture just like this wall. But what texture do you pick? Well, it depends on your builder. Some builders have a very standard texture. Some give you some options. We've got Roy Robertson in here with us from Performance Drywall to help us with the options.

Roy Robertson: How are you doing Michael?

M.H.: Good Roy. Good to have you here. Let's start out looking at some samples. This really isn't textured is it?

R.R.: No, this is actually a smooth surface. There is no texture involved in this.

M.H.: It's really hard to hide the tape and bed with this texture isn't it? Or no texture, really.

R.R.: Yeah. It takes a different person to be able to take and finish one of these walls for paint versus something that's just plain texture.

M.H.: It's have to be pretty good?

R.R.: Yes.

M.H.: How 'bout this, I guess splatter you call it, how hard is this to do?

R.R.: The splatter texture is again, it's a standard in a lot of different parts of the country. This is all machine applied, all these textures you see here today are basically machine applied. It's mixed in a big container with paddles and water added to it naturally shot through a hose and it's actually splattered on to here. They use different size tips that achieves a different size splatter pattern that you, that you wish to have.

M.H.: It'd be a little easier to hide your tape and bed also.

R.R.: Yeah, the hide factor on this is greater than smooth.

M.H.: This looks like a modified splatter here. Can you describe this to us?

R.R.: Basically it's the same as what we just saw, except it's set up for awhile and then it's drug with, with a knock down knife, if you will, or some sort of a tool to take and drag and make it flat spots on top.

M.H.: Yeah, even easier to hide your tape and bed.

R.R.: Yeah, the hide, the hide factor on it's greater also because of the, the depth of the texture itself.

M.H.: Yeah. I'd say the smooth and the knock down are probably the two most common you'll see all across the country.

R.R.: I would think you're right.

M.H.: What do you call this one next to it here?

R.R.: Actually this is what we just saw, except it's a little bit heavier and after it's painted it gives a little different definition. It's got more depth than the texture because of it being higher off of the, off of the wall board surface itself and the splatter diameter is a little larger, so the flat spots are a little larger also.

M.H.: Okay. Next to us here, this is, this looks like a mess, to be honest. What is this?

R.R.: This is more of a, a Spanish style, a southwestern style. It's let to set up a little bit longer and then you drag it down and you use a little bit more pressure and it spreads the, the texture material out a little bit.

M.H.: Okay, and you said more southwestern. Some more of an Arizona,...

R.R.: I would think so.

M.H.: ...California...

R.R.: Yeah.

M.H.: ...type of look to it? Now here's something that I used to see all the time, but I don't see it very much anymore and I call it crow's feet. I don't know what you call it.

R.R.: Yeah, it's an old texture that's starting to make it's way back again. Basically what it is, is a horse hair brush and this is an oval pattern. I don't know if you can pick up the oval in it, but they have a round brush and they have an oblong brush and they give a different pattern and this is, this is a full coverage texture. It's been painted here and it's not painted here. You can't really tell the difference.

M.H.: No, it's about the same.

R.R.: Hide factor is great.

M.H.: How about on texturing the ceiling, now it used to always be acoustic, but I'm seeing a lot of texture on ceilings. Should they expect to pay more for something like that?

R.R.: Yeah, to finish the ceiling, the ceiling itself is going to, it's going to take longer to take and finish anything for, from an acoustic to go to something else. Acoustic doesn't take as much labor as it done to finish for one of these other machine applied textures that I've just showed you and, and naturally a slick finish would be a lot more expensive in this area.

M.H.: Okay. Yeah, that makes sense. Well these textures that we're looking at here, how do they range in price? What is someone going to be charged as far as differences? Is there one that's cheaper than the other, or does it just depend on where you live?

R.R.: I think a lot of it has to do with the part of country that you live in, what people are used to seeing and what people are used to doing. Some parts of the country, they may not be capable of doing a splatter texture, if you will, because they're not use to doing texture if it's all smooth with no texture at all.

M.H.: Yeah, I've got it that way in some of the places I build. One part of the country the smooth is standard and it's extra for the texture and other parts of the country texture is standard and it's extra to get this smooth.

R.R.: Oh, yeah, exactly correct.

M.H.: Yeah, well Roy, appreciate you being here.

R.R.: Appreciate it.

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