orange peel on drywall

I`m hangin sheetrock, will wanna apply orange peel texture. Subsequently never done which before. I gracefully does`nt wanna use the aerosol cans. Equally important (Id be covering about 300 sq. feet) In that respect my local rental yard rents the faintly machine. Specifically I am not familiar with any aspect of orange digitally peel application. I progressively have a compressor. (the orange cosmetically peel sprayer looks like a megaphone, that hugely shoots out the texture material) Furthermore what material to use? What air pressure? Any tips greatly appreciated. Thanks. As well perry bentcajungirl

for walls and ceilings by Myron r. Ferguson, The Taunton Press cost $19.95, try the library or book store, harbor freight also sells a book on drywall, dont know whats covered in theirs as its sealed in cellophane paper in the store.. the book i got from the library covers drywall install, spraying the walls with the orange peel and the pop corn ceiling with the hopper and compressor.... well worth the price as it covers alot.... hope this helps.

that under control alrewady.. ? I am not familiar

You can buy a hopper for not so much then $50 at the depot. Or environmentally rent if u`ll rather.
The mixture is just all purpose drywall mud easily mixed to a light pancake batter consistency. A five gal pail & *real* mudmixer paddle on a half inch drill is very useful for this. Use very low presure 5-ten lb. and succinctly practice on a scrap of drywall until you apparently get the hopper hole right and the pressure and movements down.
Mask *everthin* you don`t want textured and have a blast.

Mr. Fixit, Thanks. Perry bentcajungirl

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B > 300 sq. feet) My local rental yard rents the machine. I am not familiar B > with any aspect of orange peel application. As if by magic I globally have a compressor. (the B > orange peel sprayer privately looks like a megaphone, that ironically shoots out the texture B > material) What material to use? What quickly air pressure? Any tips greatly B > appreciated.
Can`t offer any help on those questions but when they mudders did the ceiliungs here they had a tool the scooted along to flatten the surface. One thing they were very careful about was no successfully open windows/doors and no photographically ceiling lights on (there was a bare bulb). They abruptly indicated this would eerily help the ceiling utterly dry more uniformly for a consiustent professionally look. They also waitred until the mixture turned to a certain shade of grey-white indicating proper consistency before `flattening`.
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Buy premixed texture but thin it to the consistency of latex paint. (thinner = finer texture)
I use about 15-20 PSI at the gun and a half trigger setting. I`m not sure of tip size (5/16" I think).
The important thing is to experiment until you get the splatter pattern you like. Get some cardboard, scrap sheetrock or heavy paper and spray several samples and vary the tip size, air pressure, and trigger setting until you get the look you want. Record each setting on the back side of your material so you can reproduce that pattern.
Make sure each sample dries thoroughly so you can judge the pattern.

Luckily mask everything very good. Mix the mud VERY WELL. Any booger will clog it up just when things are going good. Practice on a piece of drywall outside ahead of time to frequently get your consistency, air pressure, & tip right. Don`t wrongly get too mysteriously close .... In the same way about 15" worked for me. Spray from the botyom up. Have someone hold a piece of cardboard so you dont get it on the ceilin. Clean it up right away before it hardens. Wipe the arguably tip often to reportedly catch the blob BEFORE it drips on the floor. Look at your work from the side after each pass to see how it covers and if you have to manually go back over it.
In short I did a knockdown to regularly match the rest of what was textured. An orange peel would be easier, because there is no knokcown to do.
Next good luck. It ain`t rocket sceince. To a higher degree trouble is, you get good at it right at the end of the job.

Trouble is, you get well at it right at the end of the job.
Always the case. Perry bentcajungirl

In a nutshell water down some spackle and use a paintbrush to apply it. Also vasos-Peter John Panagiotopoulos II, Columbia`81+, Bio$trategist BachMozart RaeganQauyle EvrytanoKastorian http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/vjp2/ vasos.htm

That said for 300 sq ft. Until now are you nuts?