Sandwash paint effect??

[veda]

Has anyone ever applied this effect? Have any tips?? (a few people have told me that it's a kind of tricky process to get even)

[veda]

Hey Joni... thanks

I have no pics yet, they may be on the Behr website but I looked briefly & didn't see the swatches. Basically, it's just a latex paint with a fine-texture sand added to give it a rough feel. The sand is lsightly vrious in color to add some depth, but some people have told me that its really difficult to keep evenly mixed (you just roll it on as a regular latex) when rolling. Thats the only tip I've heard so far... "just keep stirring it, OFTEN" Does that sound like your dresser paint?

I have a client who saw the swatch at Home Depot, I'm trying it in a room here first b'c it sounds strange... never used it before...

we'll see ;)

[veda]

Joni's post is gone :eek: now I'm carrying on conversations with myself! Not very informative! :biglaugh:

Anyone else ever tried this paint???

[Csara]

ummm, looks like all that paint is making veda a little :crazy:

Sorry, never tried it but I am LMAO! :biglaugh:

[veda]

It's not the paint :lol: , it's the clients!

[CC21]

:biglaugh: I deleted my post cause I got to looking around and decided that it wasn't what we did and I didn't want to confuse anyone!! :D

[veda]

:biglaugh:

[veda]

okay, going to start painting now... I'll post a few pics toworrow or so, when its dry & finished...

[Tearianna]

Originally posted by Csara
ummm, looks like all that paint is making veda a little :crazy:

:biglaugh: I was thinking the same thing!

How did it go?? I was going to sandwash our mudroom. But after testing it out on board, I decided against it. I stirred and stirred and stirred until it was really evenly mixed, but the sand bits would still clump up together and it didn't look too good. Maybe on a big wall, as opposed to a small board, the clumps wouldn't look so obvious?

[veda]

:eek: THAT'S what i'm afraid of... clumps & the job taking forever. the guy at the paint counter actually said "have fun" as i was leaving :eek:

she may just want another paint...
maybe a speed mixer (mechanical) would be helpful. & have someone there keeping it mixed. hmm. any other things difficult about it that you noticed?? thank you :)

* when i was preparing the walls, i found out the baseboards are wood & needed to strip them & block them before painting those walls. its good - b'c i think i will get another person & use the mech. mixer for this one... i'm starting a home journal soon... wanted to start with a "before & after" set... & have no "after"s yet :p

[Tearianna]

One more difficult thing, I forgot to say before. When you get those big clumps of sand in the roller ... it keeps the actual paint from touching the board. Right next to the clumps, I had bare wood gaps.

But I bet a mechanical mixer would really help! Maybe that would even make it easy!

The only other thing I thought about when I was going to sandwash ...

Think of how hard it would be to ever change it. Someday you get tired of the color or the texture, and you want a change. You're going to have to sand down all those walls to get it smooth enough to repaint. Either that or find some seriously effective primer!!

[rosepoint]

So, reading these posts after trying to paint a 17' X 15' room with 9' high ceilings is a lesson in frustration.

This paint is incredibly hard to work with. The clumping of the sand goes away on the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth coats of paint. However, what I was unable to every get rid of were the lap marks. The paint dries quickly and it is almost impossible to keep a wet edge unless you are doing a small space, like maybe just a portion of a wall for accent.

After putting seven coats on one wall and still having problems with lap marks, I decided to call Behr customer service. They suggested adding 10 oz of latex conditioner to the paint to help keep the wet edge. This lessened the lap marks, but they were still there.

Getting creative, I took the latex coniditioned sandwash paint and my sea sponge and sponged the last layer on. I got a great suede look to the walls and did not have to worry about lap marks any more. Not the orginal look I was going for, but the walls turned out very rich and elegant looking.

[fairfield293]

FYI:

Behr Sandwash paint is the WORST paint we have ever used. The coverage is terrible and it leaves streaks all over. We just finished our basement and decided to go with something different for paint. The samples looked good, but now our new room is RUINED.

[tgsupernana]

Our Sandwash paint choice has been the most frustrating and costly Painting experience ever! At $30 gallon and the extra gallons required to keep trying to get this paint to look like it is suppose to according to sample. Has been very disappointing to say the least. Trying every technique we could, constantly mixing, special roller covers nothing has worked!!! They should take this stuff off the market. If someone gave it to me free, I would never go through this again. We have wasted many hours on this as well as money.