Texture Matching in Colorado

Texture is what gives a repair away. The patch can be flat, the paint can be the right colour, and the wall still reads as repaired because the pattern across it changes where the new work starts.

Matching is done by hand, on site, against your wall — mixing to the right consistency, testing on a scrap, adjusting, and only then putting it up. A texture out of a can that says it is close is how you get a rectangle you can see from the doorway.

What's included

Knockdown matched on mix and on timing, not just mix
Orange peel matched by spray pattern and pressure
Hand and trowel textures read off your wall and copied
Feathered out past the repair so the transition hides
Whole walls or ceilings re-textured when a match is not honest

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. Orange peel is a spray pattern and a pressure, and the two have to be found again for every wall.

Hand textures are their own problem, because somebody troweled them once, thirty years ago, in a pattern they invented and nobody recorded. Those get read off your wall and copied by hand, which is slower and the only thing that works. Then it is feathered out past the repair so the transition happens somewhere your eye is not looking.

How we work

Read the existing texture

We look at the pattern, the depth and how it was made, because knockdown, orange peel and a hand trowel are three different jobs.

Test before applying

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.

Apply and time it

For knockdown, the wait between spraying and knocking is the whole match. That timing changes with the room and the day.

Blend past the repair

The new texture is carried out beyond the patch so the change lands in the middle of a wall instead of on its edge.

Common questions

My texture is old and nobody knows what it is. Can you still match it?

Usually. Old hand textures get copied off the wall itself rather than identified by name. If a match would not be honest, we will tell you and offer to re-texture the whole wall or ceiling instead.

Will I be able to see where the repair is?

That is the standard we work to. The texture is matched and then carried past the patch, so the transition falls where your eye is not looking instead of at the edge of the repair.

Do I have to repaint the whole wall afterwards?

Sometimes, and it is usually about the paint rather than the texture — colour fades on a wall that gets sun. We will tell you before we start whether painting corner to corner is the honest answer.