Dale Ovenstone

How To Mix Texture (artex) Powder Correctly

Texture powder (used for coating your walls & ceilings) can be purchased in many formats, usually in powder form, or even ready mixed in tubs & containers. I find that the best value for money is to purchase texture in powdered form & mix it to the required consistency yourself, besides being better value, you can also mix it to your specific requirements depending on your specific consistency for that... (posted by Dale Ovenstone 3 years 241 days ago.)

How To Use a ‘comb’ To Texture Your Ceiling & Walls

Here in the UK, we texture a variety of stunning patterns & designs straight onto the ceiling & walls using tools such as fingers, rollers, sponges, rags, brushes, trowels, etc: your only limit is your imagination; but in this article I want to talk about using texturing' combs, to create some amazing affects onto your interior surfaces; these are very reasonably priced &... (posted by Dale Ovenstone 3 years 241 days ago.)

Painting Your Freshly Plastered Wall & Ceiling

In this article we are going to take a look at correctly painting (emulsion) your freshly plastered wall or ceiling. Ok, so you've spent a reasonable amount of money and had your rooms plastered, or you may have even had a go yourself (Well done) but I find that many people haven't the right information concerning how to paint the finished work, your plasterer should discuss... (posted by Dale Ovenstone 3 years 241 days ago.)

How To Texture a Ceiling or Wall

For creating the stipple effect, a "square brush" which contains "flexible rubber prongs" over the surface of the face side of the tool; is used to lightly; "bounce" off, the textured surface. You can also create the same effect, if you roll onto the surface, the texture mix, and keep on rolling over this until a stipple is finally achieved. The depth on the "finished texture" pattern depends on how thick the... (posted by Dale Ovenstone 4 years 42 days ago.)