Skim coat plaster walls

In this post I'm showing you how to skim coat over wall texture to create a smooth finish. Smoothing wall texture can be time consuming but it id DIY'able.

Before drywall, walls were framed as straight as possible and covered with 1/2"x2" pieces of slat board and then smeared with plaster. Nothing was even and slight shifting in the home due to settling caused cracks and separated corners.

Hopefully I can share some tips that I got from readers and from my own experience to make it easier to remove texture from interior walls.

A new approach for smoothing rough walls that's easy to master

We left off on our in-depth "how to fix plaster and skim coat like a boss" series of blog posts after having applied the initial rough coat of joint compound over top of the screen/scratch coat we had applied in the previous steps. And while any wall or ceiling that had been previously cracked, sagging, full of holes, and generally near disaster is undoubtedly looking much better at this stage of the repairs, it's nowhere near finished. However, we're just a few arduous steps from turning…

We just completed a fun little makeover in our oldest two boys’ room and the number one question I have received over on the gram is “Why did you skim coat the walls?” We live in Texas and we have very heavy knockdown textured walls. It is recommended to install wallpaper on fairly smooth walls […]

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This DIY smooth wall texture guide gives you a step-by-step instructions on how to smooth textured walls with a skim coat.

The thing about big long home renovation projects is that they defy the space-time continuum. How could skim coating a ceiling take most of a week?