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Skip Trowel.
Skip-trowel finish — a hand-applied texture with random light-and-shadow play. Versatile, durable, and suited to both interior and exterior surfaces.
What it is
Skip-trowel is a controlled hand texture: a thinned plaster is troweled across the surface in skipping passes that leave random raised areas. Done by hand, it produces a wall that catches light in subtle, varied ways — never the uniform pattern that hopper-sprayed finishes betray.
We apply skip-trowel as both an interior wall and ceiling finish and as a stucco finish coat over hard-coat or synthetic systems.
Our process
From the first site visit to the final coat.
Every project follows a sequence — refined over thirty years and adapted to the substrate, climate, and finish system.
- 01
Surface preparation
Substrate cleaned, primed, or scratch-coated as appropriate.
- 02
Skip-trowel application
Thinned plaster troweled in skipping passes — by hand, never sprayed.
- 03
Final pass
Optional smoothing pass to control the texture height.
Common questions
Skip Trowel — frequently asked.
Can skip-trowel be re-painted later?
Yes. Skip-trowel takes high-quality interior or exterior paint without losing its texture, so long as the painter rolls it instead of spraying.
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