Touch Up Fail

[LJB179]

Hi Experts,

To caveat, I believe this may be a form of flashing and I know the best thing to do is to paint the whole wall, however, it’s a difficult to do area with two windows (with curtains) and a door and I am all DIY’d out, so think I’ll just leave it for now if this is the best it can be.

I used the same paint, with a mini-roller and tried to feather both patches out from the centre as best as I could. I have the same issue though as I seem to have with all of the touch ups I’ve done - it’s OK in the middle but the edges are a little colour and are more spackled. In some areas I tried to fix the spackle with sanding but obviously that was disastrous as you end up with a smooth piece of wall, where everything else has roller texture, and you can’t replicate it properly, you need to then sand the whole wall.

Is there a way to at least get to a point in which you don’t have these light patches on the edges of a touch up?

I think that in future my plan will be to let walls get marked and damaged and just repaint annually…

 

[Wayners]

Roller nap difference from the original to the mini can effect how it looks.
You haven't painted it right though so have another go..

Remember drawing a sun. The centre. Then the rays. One long. One short. One long. One short.
All going around the centre rolled outward.
Paint like that.
Load roller well. Be quick. Plenty on. You don't want to mess when paint thickens from drying.
You don't want it too thin and patchy. Nice thick layer so it settles with the long and short rays of the sun.
That will hide the stop start of the patch

 

[LJB179]

Thank you! I read a lot of responses to other posts stating to use as little paint as possible and ‘feather’ out, and I thought that’s what I’d done, however, maybe I need to use a different approach (the one that you have mentioned). I am just worried about making the problems larger and more severe…

 

[Wayners]

Personally. I never bother touching up walls unless there is poor light or it's understood what can happen.
You touch up a long hallway with a sunny glass door at the end then the paint touch up look's terrible.

 

[LJB179]

Personally. I never bother touching up walls unless there is poor light or it's understood what can happen.
You touch up a long hallway with a sunny glass door at the end then the paint touch up look's terrible.

 

[LJB179]

Yeah, we are where we are now. I also did the bottom and that looks awful too, but I shall probably leave as is due to the risk of further problems.