Texture, texture everywhere!
Well, I finally got the gumption to do the textured ceilings in the kitchen and the living room. I worked on the bedroom last week, and it was a disaster. I apparently hadn’t properly cleaned the texture gun last time, so it made a real mess. It didn’t spray, it just glugged out spew. I cleaned it and it worked better, but it didn’t stop spraying when I let go of the trigger, so texture ended up everywhere.
That was not the case today. I got a hose fitting and a shut-off valve to attach to the gun so I could turn the air off when it ran out of texture. That way the compressor could catch up and it didn’t make as much of a mess.
After I finished the kitchen, there was enough texture on the floor that my shoes got sticky. When I walked around the living room, the thin mylar floor covering came with me. I didn’t notice because I was looking up at the ceiling and the floors got a lot of texture on them.
Previously, I removed one of the ceiling fan blades, leaving a gap between the blades. This allowed me to spray an area and then turn the fan to reveal another area to spray. I sprayed all around the fan without removing all the blades.
Cleaning up the mess was the biggest job. Because of the cold weather, I had to clean everything in the laundry tub and dump the dirty water down the toilet. I couldn’t clean the tarp used as a drop cloth, so it will remain as is forever.
I mopped up the messy floors, and that took almost as long as spraying the ceilings, but now that it’s clean it looks like a hundred bucks!