Vaughn Wat - Roseville - Knockdown Texture, Prime, and Paint 3 car garage

The customer hired me to do Knockdown texture on her 3 car garage with high ceilings, which is not fun when you are climbing up and down a ladder with a texture hopper and a knockdown blade. Not up to that point in my career I had patched and textured my share of walls and can blend texture perfectly, you would never know there was a patch on the wall. Well when you are shooting texture from a hopper all day long in the July Heat, climbing up and down your 6 ft ladder, things start to get rough. The first day I made many mistakes, I held the hopper at too far an angle to shoot the ceiling so the mud just spilt out the back on it (luckily I always make sure to take the proper masking precations whenever I am spraying or painting). I made it through day one with arms like noodles and a stiff back, drenching of sweat, but I had managed to complete the knockdown texture. It looked pretty good too for it starting as an unfinished garage and not having any time to do any proper skim coating or sanding. Day 2 was a bit easier because I was now in my natural element, I had my airless sprayer and My PVA Primer. I have hoped I would be able to spray out the PVA and then it would dry fast enough for me to spray the two finish coats because the moving trucks where coming the next day. I decided to start at the front of the garage when I started spraying out my first finish coat, that way it would dry quicker and worst case scenario by the end of the day all that would be wet still from the first coat would be the back section of the garage where a golf cart would fit. So now, the customer was starting to get nervous, I had primed and sencond coated everything except for the very back of the garage enclave. I did this on purpose so that the next morning I could put up my spring loaded zip wall poles and make a plastic barrier while the movers were unloading the trucks at the front of the garage and I finished spraying the second coat at the back of the garage. Once I finished, I cleaned out my sprayer, took down my plastic barrier and rolled up my drop cloths and was all packed up and ready to go while the movers where still unloading into the front of the garage.

It was ALOT of hard work (especially texturing the high ceilings), and honestly it probably wasn't worth the money I made, but I am just happy that I was able to help this woman accomplish her goal before the moving trucks came. So she wouldn't have her first experience in a new town be a bad one.

Ontop of all that, she sent me some photographs and a text later and the walls actually came out looking very good for having started as an unfinished garage.

Every now and then a job like this comes along and you know as a businessman you should stay far away from it but as a human being and as a people pleaser I always end up trying to help as best as I can. Plus when she tells this story to all her friends and family, that we got a 3 car garage textured, knocked down, primed with pva, and coated with 2 coats all in 3 days I'm sure they will be impressed and word will spread.