Rollers for decorative plastering and creating a relief surface
If you really want to create a stylish, unique interior, and there is not enough money for a classy specialist in wall decoration, do not give up your idea.
Textured rollers for decorative plaster will allow you to implement it yourself, without the help of specialists. But before you run to the store for this unusual tool, study the information proposed in this article about its types and the technology for creating textured coatings with its help.
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Types of embossed rollers
We all know the usual paint rollers for painting walls and ceilings. And older people from the stories of their parents remember wooden cylindrical devices for applying a picture to the walls, which were massively used in an era of lack and shortage of wallpaper.
It was they who became the prototype of modern decorative rollers with a pattern for decorative plaster.
Construction Market Offers
Let's see what types of rollers for decorative plaster manufacturers of construction tools offer. They are all arranged in the same way and are a rotating cylinder mounted on a handle.
Cylinder coating can be:
- rubber;
- plastic;
- silicone;
- foam rubber;
- tissue;
- leather
- furry.
The texture of the future decorative surface, which can imitate brick or masonry, marble, wood, fabric or be decorated with an original pattern, ornament, depends on the type of coating and its relief.
Here are some examples:
- Relief plaster roller with hard rubber or plastic coating and the relief pressed into it will create a convex pattern on the surface of the wall;
- Relief protruding above the surface of the coatingOn the contrary, it will allow squeezing a pattern on fresh plaster. For example, create the effect of brickwork or tree bark;
- Fur for textured plaster they are used to create a “fur coat” effect;
- Padded cotton swab imitates a marble surface, which will look very believable with the right choice of plaster and painting the walls (see Paint for interior wall decoration: how to choose) in a special way after it dries.
Homemade rollers
The price of finished decorative rollers can be very different and depends on the material, size, complexity of the picture. But in any case, it is not so high as to save on this tool.
Nevertheless, both among experienced finishers and among beginners, there are people who are just interested to make a structural paint roller with their own hands. This makes it possible to satisfy your creative needs and create a truly individual, unique wall design.
You can make a decorative roller with your own hands in different ways:
- Use a sharp knife to cut an ornament on a rubber roller with a flat surface. For example, longitudinal and transverse channels imitating brickwork;
- Cut the elements of the future pattern from thick rubber and glue them with special glue. Before this, do not forget to slightly round the edges of the parts to be glued so that they smoothly immerse in the solution;
Note. Whatever pattern or ornament you choose, it must be closed so that the print left is not interrupted.
- Wrap rubber strips, laces, clothesline in a random order on the working cylinder - in the form of a spiral or with overlaps and intersections at different angles;
- An unusual roller for textured plaster is obtained by attaching a crumpled plastic bag, vegetable net, burlap to it with adhesive tape.
For reference. In addition to relief rollers for plaster, you can use other tools and materials: dies, combs, hard brushes, sponges, etc. right up to your own fingers, which you can draw on a fresh layer of plaster.
Ways to use
You can create a relief using a decorative roller in different ways. In any case, the walls before this should be well aligned, not have hollows and bulges, otherwise the prints will turn out uneven. Therefore, the base device for painting with a structural roller must be carefully considered.
If a hard roller is used for decorative plaster, the process is as follows:
- A layer of the working mixture is applied to the prepared smooth and primed surface;
- They give her a little grasp, since it is impossible to leave a clear mark on the liquid solution - it will adhere to the roller, clog into the recesses of the relief. At the same time, you can’t be too slow, letting the solution gain hardness. Therefore, it is better to work together: one puts the plaster, the second after it gives it a texture;
For information. Setting time is usually 10-20 minutes depending on the type of plaster. The packaging instructions contain this information.
- The roller is pressed slightly against the wall under the ceiling and, without tearing it off the surface, they are led down, trying to exert very light uniform pressure on it;
- The next strip begins close to the previous one and from the same fragment of the drawing so that it does not interrupt. To do this, you can make a mark on the roller.
If the resulting relief seems too coarse to you, it can be smoothed with a sanding net soaked in water. You can paint the walls only after the plaster has completely dried.
Using soft-coated rollers, you can create two-color embossed plaster. To do this, the walls are first leveled with a solution of the same color, which will be the background, and allowed to dry. Then prepare a composition of a different color and not very thick consistency, tinting it with special tinting pastes.
Application of decorative plaster with a roller is simple: it is immersed in the finished solution, rolled first on the auxiliary surface for even distribution of the mixture, and then on the wall. The movements should be smooth, with uniform pressure.
Conclusion
The video in this article will be an additional and more reliable help than an oral description if you decide to master decorative plastering with a roller. After studying it and several training approaches, you can quite professionally perform this work.
