Using A Carpet Roller To Texture

The carpet texture applicator is ideal for creating your own textures.

Using a carpet roller to texture.

An ordinary roller cover will produce a texture but there are also special roller covers available that are designed for stippling. Alternative rollers most home improvement stores rent 100 pound rollers for around 15 a day as of 2011. Running over it with a plexiglas knife then diminishes the roughness creating a knockdown effect. Roll on the paint in long even strokes in one direction for uniform texture and as near to the corners as possible to help even out the brushstrokes done cutting in with a paintbrush earlier.

Moisture and solvent resistant core. The loops of yarn are known as the carpet s pile and various factors related to the pile determine the look and feel of the carpet overall a k a. Dip a paint roller into the paint tray roll it out and then apply the texture over the wall or ceiling surface. If you re willing to use a little muscle you can employ other options for rolling your vinyl floor.

Follow the product directions when using commercial texture paint. It is compatible with all standard 9 in. Some installers recommend using a 100 pound roller for the job. If you can t find one try other options.

Shaw floors is another industry leader that is worth considering a variety of carpet textures particularly because they have a much more manageable selection of 150 texture carpet designs with some of them available in as many as 70 colors a nice touch is that for every yard of carpet sold from its st jude carpet collection shaw floors donates money to the st. Leah demonstrates how to make a stipple also called antique texture in a wall using both a plastic loop roller and an ordinary paint roller. To create a texture with paint that is similar to orange peel but not as raised choose a roller with a heavy nap usually about 3 4 inch and roll the paint onto the wall as usual. Designed for use with texture stipple and sand paints.

Use a plastic loop roller to apply the knockdown mixture to the drywall. Knockdown texture sprays or rolls onto ceilings and walls initially looking like an orange peel s surface.