Hello friends, I hope you are well, today I want to show you how to prepare a professional paste to correct any cracks or details in the walls, the Christmas season is approaching and as always, most families like to paint their house to have it. good for those christmas days.
To paint the walls it is necessary to clean them well so that they are free of dust, so that there is better adherence of the new paint, it is also necessary to correct the cracks, the detachment of old paintings and scratches among others, to correct these details exist in the market many products in the form of pastes, which by the way are expensive, but in order not to spend money on those products, today I want you to learn how to prepare a paste by just using plaster and paint.
How to prepare a paste to correct cracks, scratches and holes in the walls
This paste is similar to the professional one, it is also cheap and easy to prepare, we only need plaster, rubber-based paint and sandpaper, the paint that we are going to use is the same that we will use to paint the walls, but let's see the process :
Process:
Preparation of the pasta:
To prepare the paste we need to mix the plaster with the paint, for this we look for a container there we place a quantity of paint and little by little we add the plaster until we obtain a paste with a consistency that is manageable with the spatula, that is, it is soft, this Paste It is ideal for correcting scratches and leveling irregularities in the friezes, but when we find deep cracks or gaps, we add well shredded pieces of cardboard to this paste to make a dough to fill those gaps.
Apply the paste to small scratches and cracks:
This paste is applied with a metal or plastic spatula, spreading a thin layer on the surface to be corrected, letting it dry and then sanding it with 320-grit sandpaper until it is a smooth surface ready to paint.
Apply the dough into deep holes and cracks:
When the walls have very deep holes or cracks, we prepare the paint mixture with the plaster and add the cardboard well shredded, preferably the egg carton, with these materials we make a dough with which we are going to fill the holes and cracks, once We have covered these holes, we add a final touch with a thin layer of the paste, we wait for it to dry and we sand it until we get a smooth surface ready to paint.
Summary and recommendations:
- First we put the estimated amount of paint in a container and little by little we add the plaster and move it until we obtain a smooth paste that is manageable with the spatula.
- I recommend that you prepare the pasta in small portions, if necessary, prepare it again, this is not to waste material or to prevent the pasta from hardening.
- The sanding process is carried out when the paste is dry, if we observe that there are still details, we prepare a fairly soft paste again and apply a thin layer, after it has dried we sand it again.
- In the case of deep holes, we fill them with the dough that we prepare with the egg carton and the pasta.
I hope this information has been very useful for you, greetings and God bless you.