All types — orange peel, knockdown, hand texture, or matched to what you have — in Austin and all around it.
We do all types of texture, and the two jobs inside that are not the same. Putting a fresh texture on a whole house is a spraying job and a consistency job. Matching a texture on a repair is a reading job — working out what somebody else did, sometimes decades ago, and copying it by hand against the wall.
Both come up constantly in Austin, because so much of the housing here is either brand new or being remodelled a room at a time.
Knockdown depends as much on timing as on mix: sprayed, allowed to set, then knocked back at the right moment. Too early and it flattens to nothing; too late and it stays sharp and reads coarser than the wall around it. That window moves with the temperature and the humidity, so the timing that worked last week is not automatically today's.
Orange peel is a spray pattern and an air pressure, and both have to be found again for each wall. Hand textures are their own problem — somebody troweled them once, in a pattern they invented, and the only way to match one is to read it off your wall and copy it.
On a match we look at the pattern, the depth and how it was made, because knockdown, orange peel and a hand trowel are three different jobs.
The mix is tested on a scrap and held against the wall. Adjusting on a test piece costs minutes; adjusting on your wall costs a re-do.
For knockdown the wait between spraying and knocking is the whole match, and it changes with the room and the weather that day.
New texture is carried out beyond the patch so the transition lands in the middle of a wall instead of at its edge.
Raeford, Fayetteville and the towns around them are not one market — a Fort Bragg rental turning over, a brick ranch off Bragg Boulevard and a new build in Hope Mills are three different jobs.
Tell us what the job is — a whole house, one room, or a hole in a hallway. Send photos on WhatsApp if that is quicker. English or Spanish.
Call (512) 784-0031