Item arrived in vacuum sealed packaging. It required about 72 hours sitting out for it to start to regain its shape. Once it was back to its normal shape it textured well.

The media could not be loaded. I was skeptical about these and thus ordered a bunch of texturing options at the same time. Now I think these sponges are a MUST HAVE for not only texturing but for painting in general.[Video taken at point of texture fully dry and starting to scrape, not yet primed nor painted.]I put the sponge in water, slightly wrung it out and dipped into a slurry mixture I made with Homax Wall & Ceiling Texture mix. Sponged overlapping layers onto each other, let dry and repeat. When fully dry, it might/will have almost ?too? much texture.. pointy bits that stick up and irregularities. This is good! I point these areas out in the video when the lens focuses.Take whatever size trowel you have, bigger the better; I was using an 8? until I found the 14?. Lightly scrape down the wall to even the texture out. Not too uniform, overlap and go in all different directions. I?m moving really slow in the recording because it?s difficult to film at the same time. :D You?ll see the dust pile up on the floor.Run hand across wall to find areas that are rough and don?t fit in. Scrape those down. When satisfied, I?ll next wipe down with slightly damp rag to pick up the loose dust, vacuum floor, let dry, and then paint primer and finish with wall paint.The texture pattern will lessen with each layer of prime and paint, so no need to scrape TOO much away in previous steps.I used the sponges again during final coats if the areas didn?t look like it had enough texture and was ?flat?; lightly sanding after dry.Because of this, I think if you just needed to fix a small area, you could use just these sponges and skip the pre-texturing round all together. Love them. Would recommend.

Not sure if it?s just my lack of DIY talent? Or the sponge is difficult/not the right type for my wall? But I did not find it easy to re-create my knockdown texture. My knockdown texture at my house is relatively small, I ended up just ordering a spray? It seems like the easier option and then smearing plaster all over a sponge

Worked great on wall texture repair

So these sponges arrive in a super condensed package with all the air sucked out. Trust me, the will puff up to really big sized sponges, be patient. One of rhe sponges was not puffing up like the other did so I had to help it carefully with some water. They worked for the purpose needed and I would buy them again.

I'd been buying "popcorn" forever and didn't know this was a solution. Just a "sponge" in general might solve the problem without buying something special like this but wasn't expensive.

Only good for very small repairs coverage 1 sq ft. Use a 4" putty knife to put the popcorn putty on the ceiling. do not try to put too much putty on at once, the excess will fall off the putty knife. Let it sit for about a half hour. Wring out a sponge and every so likely dap the putty once. Keep the spong kind of clean by cleaning it in a pail of water and ring it out before using it again. Let the putty dry overnight and roll on some old surplus paint if you have it with either a 1" matt roller or a sponge roller that has cross cuts in the sponge roller. Load the paint fully on the roller and lightly roll the patched ceiling, only roll one pass. The popcorn ceiling will soak up a lot of paint. The next day repaint the area. Each day add another coat of paint. On the 4th day apply the finish coat of paint that has been color matched to the popcorn. Take a sample of the popcorn ceiling to the paint store for matching.The popcorn sponges come in a vacuum bag and are flat as a pancake. Soak them in water until full size.

I had to tear out more sponge to match existing texture and make larger knock down textures. I was doing a 12" x 18" inch patch. The "modified" sponge got the job done, but it would have helped if the sponge was 2x -3x larger.

I've never had to use wall spackle on anything in my life until recently and while looking up some other things I needed for the project I came across these as a useful tool for quickly applying a texture coating to whatever surface you're working on. You just fluff up the vacuum sealed sponges and they come out about 4-5 times the size they were in the vacuum sealing but it takes a LONG time doing that by air alone and even submerging the tightly-packed sponges won't yield visible results for probably over an hour. I had to soak mine while pinching it in various places to find any obvious folding at all but once shaped and fully fluffed they cover about 6 inches in an egg or oval-ish shape along the surface. All you do after that is use the flat side of it to gently press the spackle against the wall or ceiling. It's very tiring on the arms but comes out okay and helps cover up cracks or missed spots easier once discovered. You can also use them for different texturing patterns like swirls or squiggly lines.

The sponges will work fine for cleaning the sink but the pores are so small they won?t hold any more mud than a kitchen sponge. The texture you could get with these sponges would be tiny popcorn, if you?re lucky.