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08-02-2013, 4:45pm | #1 | ||||||
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Drywall finishing sucks!
being somewhat of a perfectionist and doing your own drywall finishing is a bad mix. What should have taken a week is going on week 3. What a pain in the butt!! Unfortunately, nobody that is good at it wants to do smaller jobs and the pros that do give you a quote, give an outrageous figure. Ugh!
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Sigh...I'll say it again: Pay someone to do the no-brainer work, do the expensive work yourself. Most people do it the other way around. A pro could finish your sheetrock in 3 days with no dust. (They have hose attachments to their sanders that vents it outside in a tank.)
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Drywall finishing is shit simple, you can't figger out THAT, you got no 'touch'....
sorry guys....but dat's the truff..... |
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Another thing that makes sheetrocking easier is to use a 12" plastic blade instead of a metal one. It makes all the difference in the world for mudding and feathering. And use plastic paddles for spacking compound instead of a putty knife. Much neater.
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I did some drywall finishing on a house I owned. NEVER AGAIN. I finished it, but it took 5x longer than a drywall guy would have taken and didn't look half as good.
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Drywall and mudding are very simple...if you've done it many times before. Pros can mud and feather an 8' long joint in 2 passes. If it takes you 5, 6, 7 passes to "get it right" (or close to right), then you need lots more practice. And you should seriously consider calling in a pro.
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In theory it is simple! But loading a trowel just right and maintaining the proper angle and pressure on the knife while walking down a 2 x 10 for 12 feet doing an inside corner requires a skill. By the time you get it right, you are done. When you do it right, there should be little to no sanding needed, which is what I,m shooting for.
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I learned the trick to mudding is less is more.
And when you think just one more pass over it don't do it. Thin coats let dry and scrape off the trowel marks quickly. Mud again to 8" wide seam. Repeat above process and then a 12" knife with the mud thinned out finishes it off nicely. Also first coat to avoid cracking later use something like a sheetrock 20 or 90. Dries harder. |
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