Custom textures... Have any pics?

cooper

Hey, anybody have any pictures of their 'custom' textures? If you do have custom textures....

I'm going to take a couple pics of some of our recent work for a little portfolio for advertising. Just looking for some new ideas on texture... Maybe we can trade common textures in the northwest with common northeast textures...

rabb

can you show us some of your pic please

cooper

Yeah, I'll post a couple of the inside of my own house this weekend.

TooledUp

I notice that you guys seem to use nothing but mud to apply textures. We use a texturing compound here. It's much more versitile and you can get some stunning effects with it. Is it available in the USA/North America or is mud pretty much standard?

Some examples of texturing compound below (not my work but I do apply these patterns)

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KingOfDrywall

I did see a few "texturing compounds".....but after reading it, it was nothing more than a fancy labeled joint compound....lol. From what I read on the contents of the product, it seemed that regular usg joint compound and the product I was looking at were almost identical. The "texture compound" was simply diluted and not as thick.
? That was my observation though.??

TooledUp

Yeah there is a difference. You couldn't tape with a view to a painted finish with it and you can't sand it. We can buy ready mix but I think most prefer the bagged stuff that you mix with water. I haven't done any knock down that I've seen mentioned a lot but I don't think texturing compound would be very suitable for that judging by the method for getting the pattern.

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KingOfDrywall

What are some of the names of the texturing compounds you have available over there in your area? We do have some here, but very few, and they are not worth the extra money because the end result will still be the same. The point I was trying to make was that here in the USA much of what is made available is nothing more than colorful marketing.....a fancy jazzed up label. My favorite ((which I also manufactured/labeled/sold a few)) was the "NO POCK MUD ADDITIVE".......lol. Chemically speaking there is no magic solution that is gonna make someone a better hand finisher.
You'd get the same results adding a little dish soap to your compound.
When I seen that advertised I laughed my BUTT OFF!!! Damned all those Snake Oil Salesmen.....LMAO

TooledUp

I suppose that depends what chemical they've been taking lol

Texturing compounds are actually cheaper than finishing compounds here so I guess that's why they're more popular. The most common brands are Lafarge http://www.lafargeplasterboard.co.uk...ll_section.pdf

and Artex http://www.bpbartex.co.uk/products/d...shes_menu.aspx

Texturing seems to go through phases of popularity here. It's not 'the in-thing' at the moment but I would use around 1/3 of a 50 pound/$18.00 bag on an average (12' x '15') ceiling in a residential house and be done well withiin 2 hours - That's sheeting up, priming the ceiling and texturing. Around $180.00 and mostly profit.

Like I said tho, it's one of those things that go in and out off fashion but there is money to be made when it's popular if you can master some of the more advanced patterns such as using the combs etc.

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Drywaller

Here are a couple of knockdown textures with color variances I did at a theme park.They wanted color in the compound before I sprayed.
I thought they wanted 2 different colors as I sprayed the first time,then they didnt like it so I had to spray a second coat all one color.I like the first method myself ,But it wasnt up to me.
I really like those hand applied textures tooledup showed.

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Drywaller

Here is the other pic

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Sir Mixalot

Here's picture of a skip trowel I did after converting a drop ceililg to a lighted Trey.

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Frankawitz

I like that ceiling, the first picture looks like there was a repair made, was there a bathroom above it?

JCardoza

Here's a texture I did a couple years ago.. has color and sand mixed in the texture, then I painted the inside of the windows.11-27-06_0904.jpg

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JCardoza

Some other textures I've done...
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jim

did this 20 years agoscan0001.jpg

Frankawitz

Jim,
That is a wild ceiling, reminds me of when I was a kid and we went to Jesse James Caverns. That had to take sometime, how did you get them to hang like that with out them breaking off? What did you use?

amestaper

Jim, never seen nothing like that before. Simply awesome.

S&SDRYWALL

Here are a few of ours. First one is is a racetrack we are doing. 2nd pic is what we do most walls in. and 3rd pic is most ceilings. sorry for kinda distant pic in last pic, hard when it was that bright white.

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moore

WOW !!

chris

Does that stuff have asbestos in it?