How To Repair Orange Peel Texture Walls. Apply drywall compound to fill small holes, or use a drywall patch to fix larger drywall look for a dimpled surface pattern if you have orange peel texture. No matter how the texture was originally created, for most repair methods you'll be fixing damaged areas using a premixed wallboard compound.
Sometimes an orange peel texture can form when spraying paint with a paint sprayer.
How to skim coat textured walls using the magic trowel easy tutorial for beginners episode 2. I'm looking to put up a backsplash in kitchen myself without hiring a professional or having to buy wet saw etc. Leah demonstrates how to patch and repair a wall with an orange peel texture seamlessly, so that no one will ever know the patch is there! It is sometimes called a splatter or eggshell texture.