Fix Wall Paint Imperfections

[biljohns]

Hello All,
About a year ago, I finished out my garage walls with paint. Pulling tape off the walls post painting, I chipped some paint off the walls and ceiling.

Recommended methods of blending the chip area in with the rest of the wall?

Should I just trying to paint the chip area itself? The chip area and a little around the chip area?

The last thing I want to have to do is paint these wall again just to make everything "perfect".

 

[tjdux]

Feather the paint out. Use a mosly dry brush and pull the stoke until its totally dry. That way the stroke becomes mosly translucent.

Most likely it will blend perfect. You may see it but no one else will.

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[PT Doc]

Since you likely rolled it, using a brush will likely leave a different sheen. Maybe dab paint on the area and then use a dry roller to roll over it. If it's high up and doesn't get lots of reflected light, s brush might work ok. Nothing to lose.

 

[bwringer]

Grab some of those cheapie foam brushes -- they seem to mimic a roller finish quite well without leaving brush marks. Mask the wall in case you drip.

Paint the chipped areas and sort of blend and feather out, and you won't be able to see a thing after the paint dries.

 

[glentre]

The chipped areas are likely as thick as the paint film so just painting over them will still show the depressed area of the chip. I would spackle over the chip depression and then sand it smooth and feathered out so you can't feel any difference in the wall surface and the spackled area. Then use the same paint as before with a wet brush over the area and then follow with an almost dry roller to spread the paint outward over and beyond the chipped area. Two coats may be required.

Glen

 

[CJ7VFR]

Grab some of those cheapie foam brushes -- they seem to mimic a roller finish quite well without leaving brush marks. Mask the wall in case you drip.

Paint the chipped areas and sort of blend and feather out, and you won't be able to see a thing after the paint dries.

I do this all the time when there are small areas that need to be touched up.

What I do is cut the "point" off of the foam brushes so that the foam is squared off at the tip. Then I load up the foam brush with paint and dab it onto the area I want the paint applied to. Dabbing it will give the paint a more rough look to it, similar to the appearance of being rolled on.

I normally do this several times, letting the paint dry about 30 minutes between each "coat" of dabbing the paint on. I make each coat of paint go further beyond the original point of where the paint repair needed to be to blend in the area.

Once it dries, like others have said, you won't even really notice it.

Also what I like to do, if you have not done this already, is to keep a small amount of paint for the walls, ceiling, and any other items in little glass jars to use for touch-ups. This makes it quick and easy to do fixes without having to open up the entire can of paint and go thru the process of getting it ready just to touch up a little scratch or whatever.

Also, the nice thing about the foam brushes is that once your done you just toss them out. No clean up needed what so ever.

And, if you remove the wooden stick "handle" of the foam brush, you can use it for other things, even as nice dowels, as they are mostly 3/8's of an inch in diameter, and work great for that!

Jim