Joint Compound Sanding Tips for Perfectly Smooth Walls | Sanding, Priming and Painting
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- Опубликовано: 3 янв 2024
- In this video, I go over the importance of sanding after you do your taping and mudding. I share some tips and tricks that have helped me get a smooth finish.
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I did a mud job one day and didn't sand any of it. The walls looked absolutely perfect that night, with the lights off.
Comment of the night! LOL!
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Lol
😂 funny asf
Mhm..."looks perfect from my house!"
The more expensive paints save you time and frustration, one of the BEST properties of the better paint is touch ups... a year later when your kid dings the wall, you can repair, and single coat paint the patch, and it will blend almost perfectly, in one coat! - So worth it.
would love to see you put a trap door that raises up for access to the basement, but offers you solid ground when just accessing the space as storage :)
I knew I wouldn't be the only one who thought of this. It could be pantry storage with a drawbridge floor.
I leave in Chelmsford, MA and I'm not native American, I'm an immigrant....and I like to do things in my house myself because sometime you pay someone a lot of money and get bad result and headache of dealing with it. I want to thank you for sharing with us all these tips and tricks. It helps a lot to save money and improve skills. Keeps same series of videos. Sometime i should hire you to do some project in my house. )))
I’m still missing the same piece of baseboard trim that was missing when I started watching your channel 2 years ago. you’ve remodeled your house in that time lol.
I feel this at a deep level. There is so much to be done in my house and I have done NONE of it!
I enjoyed the out takes at the end 😂
I nailed up a few planks w hooks for boots, purses and scarves next to the coat hooks. Thanks for the motivation.
I'm ready for this one. I wish I had seen your drywall videos 15 years ago. 😉 In the next house, we'll do better.
I’ve watched so many DIY RUclips videos where the homeowner doesn’t remove the light switches. It’s so easy to do and it drives me crazy when they don’t. Love your work.
Can you buy another house for more content 😂 love these wee videos.
Thanks again for another vid! Really enjoy the long vids. Happy New Year!!!
Mapping the studs is always a great idea, when I built a new house or did a remodel I would take pictures with a tape measure stretched out. I would do it after all the mechanicals, plumbing, and electrical before insulation, I then burned all the pictures to a CD and left them in the breaker box. I have been retired for a little bit now and actually had a contractor call me and thank me for doing that on a house I built in 1999. He did say that because CD's are the next DoDo 🦤 he resaved all of them to a USB drive.
Very smart idea.
This guy is good at teaching. I feel like the grasshopper.
Now would be a good time to show a Before & After. 🙂 The transformation is AWESOME!
Almost done! 😉😁
That was SUCH a good idea to mold the playdough to fit around the entrance, and once you did it looked like real quarter round.
Great out takes man.
That came out great!…for a nice finishing touch, you could clean up that bare wood around the opening to down cellar and put a low lusture clear poly on it, then paint the steps gray and put a darker color stair runner!…yowzer…..
Literally you singing makes me think of scenes of Ghost Rider with Nicolas Cage & how he tells his manager to “Never step over the Carpenters” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The Fixer 👍
One tip: cut in all your corners using a 4in mini roller, when you’re painting ceilings and walls you can use a 4in mini roller to cut your ceilings too. No brush marks, and saves lots of time. And in areas where you need a brush to cut in, use your mini roller and roll as close to your cut line as possible to eliminate brush strokes.
I absolutely live for the bloopers at the end of your videos🤣🤣🤣 I really needed to laugh after the day I had at work today.
Thank you so much for this series! Can't wait to see the bloopers at the end of the next video when the shelves are installed.😊😊😊
BTW, at least you didn't have to completely plaster the walls.
Excellent video.
Love that ‘fuzzies removal’ tip! Thank you 😊
Excellent camera/lighting work to illustrate wall finishing! What a great explanation, Mr. Fixer, man. Fantastic!
I so enjoy watching all your hard work, Matt - RIGHT NOW!
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I've got really skilled at using a hopper and texturing the walls and ceiling. No need to worry anymore about the mud job I do. Also, I learned the thinner my mud the less I have to do, and I can wet sponge most everything out after a little drying. I know and have hired professional people, but in the end save more than 50% and do it yourself with time spent learning on good and bad videos on RUclips. Yours is good.
You sure are pulling the taffy on this stairwell/closet/storage/broom. 🤣👍
I love it! Valuable skills to learn. Thanks for sharing.
You do fine work even if you go that extra yard. It’s your house not anyone else’s
My son has just painted the bedroom in his new flat using Benjamin Moore paint. It’s VERY expensive in the UK, but great paint.
Extraordinary care for an area few will ever see! lol 😅
It’s called a raking light. To expose imperfections in any flat surface. 😊. Great job as always. Come work on my house. You can use the pool
Never knew that’s what it’s called. Very cool. Thanks!
Just an FYI for anyone interested. I just went through a similar thing to this - used Killz PVA primer, it sucks. Also used Killz 2 (whatever's in the blueish paint can), it also sucks. Do yourself a favor, spend more at Sherwin Williams or Benjamin Moore on a good primer. This is the base coat of all your painting efforts. Also, use a microfiber nap if you don't want fuzzies.
Great sanding tips!
Thanks! 😃
Great tips, Matt. Nice seeing Koda. 🐕
Great tips! 26:40 I used to use tape to mark the areas that needed to be touched up but I've had the tape fall off, then that spot gets missed until another check. What I started doing is very lightly circling the areas that needed more mud with a carpenter's pencil. After touching up with mud and resanding, those marks become faded but still visible enough to see where more primer needs to be applied. Lather, rinse, repeat.
PS: Playing paint chicken?
Great video !!! thanks
Great Job!
The blooper reel at the end is ALWAYS a great way to end your videos 😅
Thank you for sharing!
Nice job on your videos
Thanks! 😀
The Benjamin Moore paint makes a difference. With the exception of yellow paint I have almost never needed a second coat.
Looks great! such an upgrade!
Also recently finished my ''basement'' (under stairs) storage area in my home. But had a clean slate to start from (newly built). Gotta say i'm happy i didnt cut corners even though its only storage, looks fantastic now and is super functional.
I am a RUclips consumer of Jeff Thorman for painting tips, and Vancouver Carpenter / The Kilted Drywall Guy for drywall stuff. They can level up your game.
I did a room in plaster and blueboard. And it didn’t need to be sanded. Also found that if I mix plaster of Paris with mud to patch a hole, and didn’t need to sand in that case either.
I probably don’t need to say this, but I will😄. If you paint those stairs, make sure you do something to prevent slipping. Don’t ask me why I’m concerned about that!
Great video Matt. Very informative. Wishing you and yours a Happy Healthy New Year.
Thanks, you as well! 😃
@@TheFixerHomeRepair thanks
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Pro Tip : IF you use a legit drywall primer, you don't need to dust it much. You can just coat it and the dust will clean right up into the primer. And no more dust. (Obviously you need to do a basic vacuum - use a proper filter in your vac.) More than likely you'll need 2 coats to prime the paper anyway. It looks like you went really light on the first coat of primer.
Still - as always - amazing job, and video!
Interesting, thanks!
That's a good primer though. You don't need to spend tons of money on it.
The guy who borrowed your painting pole is feeling pretty awkward now LOL
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how about some porch paint for those basement stairs? some ant skid tape too maybe?
A flat finish wall is hard to do, that's why they like to do orange peel to hide the imperfections. Lot of hard work in that tiny space.
Yep. Spray texture has now become so ubiquitous in the building industry because it hides "production" level construction (housing developments, etc; AKA "blow and go") that average home buyers come to expect it. My last house I did in all smooth finish. When I sold it, the person that wound up buying the house initially complained that the walls weren't "finished" and wanted me give to them a discount so they could hire someone to spray tex and repaint!!! [facepalm] I had to explain the above and while it's harder to do up front, it makes patching repairs easier to do as matching the texture is difficult between professional spray equipment and can tex. If not done right then the repair becomes obvious, especially with a satin or glossier paint. A smooth finish is a smooth finish, no matching required.
@@GraeMatterz There are 5 levels of wall finish, orange peel is #3. The architects I worked with would spec #5, the best and most flat on commercial or educational projects.
My contractor told us to start with a wet washrag for the first "sanding" for flat textured surfaces. Then the next day to use sanding screens, etc.
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You are too funny
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I've got sanding screens on my handheld, manual sander. So much better than sandpaper.
Did you buy that paint Sherwin williams and if you did what is the product number for that paint SW???? Thanx for the help
What grit sandpaper did you use after the primer?
I tried buying a stud finder, but it just kept going off everytime i touched it ;)
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You can wet sand with a tile sponge
I'm still trying to figure out how to clean my walls over my stairwell, I don't have the right letters and I'm afraid I'd fall.
I use a mop to clean my walls (I have one mop for the floor and one mop for the walls) Ive had a few bad falls and take no risks like that now. Maybe give that a try if it’ll reach.
Get yourself a new pole!
Sara! You did not have to do that. But thank you so much! 🙏
Take my 220, 221, whatever it takes.
Is this a Mr. Mom movie reference? If so, know I got a chuckle out of it.
it is, lol@@SariJane724
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Nice job! I will not buy cheap paint either. Not worth the 2 and 3 extra coats to make it look right.
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Or that the mudders are very, very good at their jobs.
Painters sand if necessary; don't make them mad.
If this doesn't sit well with you, don't hire me to paint.
You're not going to texture the wall afterward?? I rarely see drywallers on youtube texture the walls, but every single home I've ever seen from old to brand new construction has had textured walls, so why don't I see youtubers texturing?
I think textured walls is definitely a regional thing. I am in Massachusetts, have worked on 100’s of houses and maybe 2 or 3 had (some) textured walls. LOTS of textured ceilings although that trend is dying here.
@@TheFixerHomeRepair strangely enough, the newer houses don't texture ceilings but do have textured walls.
imo only paint the basement stairs when you're looking to sell the house...
Don’t use mesh sanders they leave scratches. That makes you are wearing isn’t good please wear at least an n95 they are so cheap
I hate the pole sander. I guess I'm retarded, but it never works well for me. My last project I just used sanding blocks for the entire room.
You are so cute and so smart, hope you have a wife, keeps girls away ❤
She is the one filming him
@@Kate-or9umgiven that Lauren mentioned calling his wife at the end, I don’t think the camera girl is his wife
It's a basement. Your stouib.
don't understand why American's tape and mud, what's wrong with skimming the whole wall with gypsum plaster, so much quicker the only downside is its not really for a DIYer
White paint ? Why even bother painting just leave the primer on.
The camera doesn't pick it up but it was the same lighter gray paint as my kitchen.