Just apply a thin layer of mud and wipe off all excess. To do a second coat for butt joints, take the inch taping knife, apply two swaths of mud, approximately 8 inches wide, along both sides of the first joint coat, but not on top of the original joint. This imperceptibly builds up the wall depth over a wider area to reduce the appearance of a bulky butt-joint seam. Feather out the edges of the swaths well with the knife for a smooth look. Apply a third very thin coat of mud after the second coat dries.
Use the inch knife for all screw indentations, seams, and corners. The wider knife allows you to feather out the edges of the mud to a razor-thin application. Follow the same procedure for beveled joints and corners as before. On butt joints, apply a thin coat of mud over the previous swaths and the original mud joint.
When the mud dries, apply one last thin coat only over the butt joints. Feather out the edges very well and let the mud dry. Don your respirator mask and goggles prior to sanding. Sand all joints and nail indentations until the wall is perfectly smooth. Unlike paper tape that requires bedding in wet mud, self-adhesive mesh tape is applied over seams and then, when mud is applied, an adequate amount seeps through the mesh into the seam beneath.
The order of taping is the same: Do screw indentations and beveled joints first, inside and outside corners next, and butt joints last. Use pre-creased paper tape for inside corners and preformed tape for outside corners. Disclosure: BobVila.
I am a big DIYer, huge. But I loathe sanding. I have no clue why, it is in almost every project to ever exist. I do it kicking and screaming every time. I have never heard of the wet sanding. Maybe I wont hate it so much? You guys! You guys always do your research, follow all the steps and have a keen attention to detail.
Looks great! I know it sounds funny, but I actually use the Mr. Not sure how it would work in such a big area, but it is so much cleaner than sanding and leaves a perfectly smooth surface behind. This was not a full room job, however! That was helpful to read. Makes me a little less leery of discovering just how much mudding might be necessary once I remove some of our popcorn ceilings…. Good work! It was a necessary very time consuming step for us.
Did you consider it? Are you in another country? We do live in a hundred year old house though with very not straight anything so maybe that makes a difference.
Yep John. Most houses in Australia are brick thus plastered walls. I had never seem that before. A trick for the drywall screws is to go around with a hammer and beat each one a little bit giving each one little indents from the head of the hammer. The mud will cover each one really well after you do that. As a mom to a 5-year-old and a 6-month-old…. I say get that washer and dryer hooked up ASAP! Wow, that looks amazing. I am loving how this is looking. Thanks for the inspiration.
My thoughts exactly. What a smart transformation!!! Makes so much sense. You need to invite the reader who suggested it Leslie? What an amazing foresight she had! I was curious though, are you guys going to texture the walls at all? Yes, the new laundry room is amazing, but what keeps hitting me square in the forehead is that even an expression? You come up with an idea and you execute it in a matter of weeks.
Kudos to you! Great job! We are old people with old house love but definitely on the slow track for renovations. We have a bathroom gut job that we are steeling ourselves for and once again, you guys are helping us to be brave.
Thanks for that. Oh, and in Texas, yes to textured walls. Our house has popcorn ceilings and gross textured walls. Oh well, raising the four kiddos has been a blessed distraction. This is actual useful information that I will be able to bookmark and make use of when we finish our basement, so thank you for that! Your email address will not be published. Project Completion Euphoria.
And it can make a grown man twirl. I heard you want 1 gallon for every square feet of drywall. For me that meant 4 gallons, but we ended up using closer to 5. Mudding Over The Screws We started with the easy step: covering the screw heads.
Taping The Drywall Seams Next up was taping the joints or seams between sheets of drywall. Then on went the tape with a light tap, just to keep it in place. More posts from Young House Love. A Little Curtain Fashion Show. Comments Sorry if you have already covered this somewhere, but will you be putting a color on the wall?
Oh yes, paint is next! Really smart for hiding those cords! Looking great! You guys rock! Thanks Nan! Do your walls not have any texture? Like orangepeel, skiptrowel, etc? So exciting! High fives Shell! Sounds cool! So funny! Thanks so much for sharing! Thanks Lauren! Come over! Three is a party. Wow, that last of your hallway — what a difference! It looks so much brighter!
Just need to buy a corner trowel I guess. Definitely makes things easier. Definitely give it a try! The process takes many steps, starting with careful taping of all the joints where drywall sheets come together.
The terms actually describe a process to make drywall smooth, safe and fire resistant. The drywall or sheetrock itself can also be purchased with a specific fire resistance rating or layered to add extra fire resistance.
Applying drywall tape helps bond together adjacent sheets of drywall. Doing this creates continuity and helps reduce any motion or cracking. Joint compound can turn into powder if you neglect to apply tape to shore it up. In cases where excessive movement is expected, drywall mesh may be necessary, but is more expensive and more difficult to smooth out, so it's typically only used for potentially problematic areas.
When taping, you will need to take care to avoid tape bubbles. Use paper drywall tape with air-drying "mud", while self-sticking fiberglass tape works best with setting compounds "mud" cured by chemical reaction rather than air-drying. You can use either dry or pre-mixed mud for your drywalling project.
Other coats of mud will smooth over the tape, nail holes, etc. You'll sand the mudded walls between coasts of mud. After taping and mudding drywall, the last finishing steps include texturing if desired and painting. All Mr.
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