How to Mud and Tape Drywall | Joint Compound Wall Finishing Start to Finish!
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- Опубликовано: 13 дек 2023
- In this video, I show you how I tape and mud my basement stairwell area. There are a few techniques and products that I have used over the years to get smooth and seamless walls. There are different levels of drywall finishing, levels 0-5. I am not a professional drywall finisher... but I don't have to be to get smooth walls, neither do you! My two biggest suggestions are to practice as much as you can and have patience. The more careful you are with drywall finishing, the less sanding you will have to do before painting.
Part 1- • Basement Stairwell Are...
Part 2- • Preparing Walls and Ce...
Part 3- • Hanging Drywall and In...
Part 5- • Joint Compound Sanding...
Part 6 - • How to Customize Store...
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• Stairwell Storage Area...
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Thanks for watching! 😃
I really like the camera work your wife is doing. I noticed the difference lately, I thought you were using multiple cameras. But watching the bloopers I finally figured out the wife was running the camera. 👍❤️❤️ I’m glad you two are spending some good quality time together, you’re a good team.
Your demeanor, vocal tone, and speech tempo, remind me so much of Bob Ross. I couldn't figure out why I enjoyed listening to you talk, and I finally put it together. Thank you for posting on RUclips, and continuing to put out great content.
This is such a great compliment! Thank you!
your putting more work into this tiny wall area then i have ever put into anything
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“There’s that one spot.”
“HEY!!”
😂😂😂
These aren’t bloopers, these are the whole job, at least when I’m attempting to do drywall! 😂
Just recently found your channel and I’m enjoying the heck out of it! Learning stuff, too!
Thanks for watching!
You're a great teacher! You always show a high standard of workmanship. I love watching when the teacher is so concerned about the final product. It teaches students to have great standards too. The bloopers are entertaining and teach us that perfection is not easy, but it is rewarding. Thank you for the wonderful video.
I love watching your perfection and then I with glee watch the bloopers and laugh . You are the man😂! Love it. Don’t stop the bloopers.❤
I’m always amazed at how labor intensive mudding is…all the endless coats, sanding. I’d never have the patience to do this, even if I had the huge skill required. You’d think someone would’ve invented a better/faster way.
We plaster our walls in the UK, I am not a plasterer but from what I've seen it looks a lot quicker than this and a superior result
The difference is plastering requires extreme skill and most likely any plastering you've seen was being done by highly skilled individuals. Therefore they really do make it look quick and easy
Looks good to me! 😊😊
I'm calling this your mancave. I can't believe the effort you're putting into a cellar staircase.
That being said,I do like your use of tools, seems very efficient.
Love the bloopers! 😂
Great job, Matt. Really enjoying this reno! Love your positive attitude in your videos!
Mudding looks really relaxing
Yay! Rather watch this than Netflix. You got my attention! 😂
Thank you for watching!!
My Dad remodeled old houses. He had a trick he used in priming new drywall that had its 2 coats of mud over old studs. He would get 3-4 gallons of cheap white paint and add premixed drywall mud to it and roll it on the walls with a long nap roller. It really made a the walls look great and hid alot of wavy walls.
That's why I'm not good at mudding. I watch you too much. I've tried it a bunch. My first time was my 6x6 foot bathroom remodel I did myself. Ceiling and all. I used almost a whole 5 gallon bucket and this room had a full size shower in it. I'm no good at it at all. And that's a perfect basement stairwell wall to be beating stuff against whilst carrying stuff up and down stairs. Lol great job.
Great job, Matt. Love your positive attitude in your videos and responses to comments.
i gotta say the bloopers at the end....priceless!!! I've learned a lot watching these. keep up the good work, and never lose the bloopers!
The bloopers r legit reality... Thank you for showing them. Makes people realize it's not as easy as it seems. Thank you🙏
You make it all look so easy! And then there’s the bloopers LOL😂❤
The haircut between the second and third coat looks great!
Haha was wondering who was gonna be the first to notice. Congrats! 🤣
For the tape coat, I like to use a 6" knife. Then I use an 8" the second time around and a 10" for the final. Your way came out good though. Merry Christmas! 🎄
honestly this should be an asmr category, so smooth. y'know, when there's not problem 1 of 500 lol (nice bloopers)
You’re brave mixing that in the kitchen with your wife watching
Still love the bloopers!❤
So much effort going into a tiny area no one will see. 🙃 It does look good though.
Love the bloopers at the end - so easy to relate to. 😂😂
Merry Christmas to you & yours 🎄🎄
Yup we have the same house I hate the stairway basement bulkhead… it’s coming down!!!! I have been looking for this video for YEARS 😢I will close off the small closet and relocate the closet on the longer wall without ductwork ❤ Thank you so much
Im gonna give your video a thumbs up, and I'm gonna do it...
...right now.
The Fixer 👍
“Theres just that one spot……” HILARIOUS! She’s keeping you on your toes! Lol
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Vancouver carpenter has excellent drywall tutorials. Love your videos
Ben is great
When my dad converted our garage into his work shop so he could be closer to us kids after mom died his friend who was a general contractor called that bit of mudding during the second and third coat "feathering". Whether that is the correct terminology I have no idea. They let my brother and I mud over the nails (this was way back in the early 80's) and hammer dents in the drywall that we could reach. We made a competition of it, of course. Who mudded the most and the best and so on...
Thank you for a great video and the fun memories this brought back to me 🥰🤗😘~Susan
Matt, you seriously crack me up 🤣
Hope you and yours have a lovely Christmas. I can imagine it will be chaotic with 3 little boys, so hope you and Mrs Fixer manage to retain your sanity.
I've been watching your videos for a while now and I appreciate that you show the mess ups. Especially with regard to mudding. I am an "ok" amateur, but fine it a chore. I could up my game, but I'm so thrifty by nature that I don't like the necessary waste that comes with "doing it right." Thanks for the tips and explanations.
The Fixer logo on your shirt is becoming just as famous as the Jordan logo👍
As always, thank you Matt. I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets annoyed with that project
I just want to say I enjoy your videos I already know how to do all this stuff but I enjoy the way the videos are done. Keep it up.
Hahaha bloopers are the best. Alllll the yelling 😂😂😂, at least you have someone with you. I always felt crazy yelling and talking to myself. 😂😂😂
Is it wrong that when I watch your videos I can’t wait to get to the end to watch your outtakes! Lol 👍😎❤️
This is pretty much the same way that my wife and I have been doing it for the last 4 decades. Using the knife to get rid of the bumps and stuff will save a lot of time sanding later. I try not to sand at all. I just keep spreading it out in very thin layers until I cover the entire wall. Then I prime. Use a flashlight to look for dimples and dents and fill these. Then reprime the fixes and paint. done. And maybe you haven't seen it because I don't have a RUclips channel. I learned the trade in Massachusetts and that's how we do it.
Really enjoying this reno! Can't wait to see the finished product.😊 First
Gooooooooood evening. Watching you mud is almost therapeutic lol
Great job Matt
Thanks for sharing!
Great video !!!! thanks
Looks great fixer guy. Great job
Bloopers are awesome man
I'm not a drywaller but I feel you over did it on the mud but I'm sure after sanding and painting it will turn out awsome, I cant wait to see it.
You are very entertaining! I really enjoy watching. I learn a lot.
I love your channel, and I'm really loving the bloopers at the end. ❤
😂😂😂😂 The bloopers man. Good work buddy. Smooth wall takes some skill. 👍
The correct order to taping is, vertical / horizontal flat seams first including the ceiling (if vertical seams intersect with horizontal, then butt joint first and factory edges last), vertical corners, and last runs are horizontal corners along the ceiling. This way the tape ends are overlapped to reduce peeling. Corner bead is done after all taping is finished. Spot screws as you go along. Factory seams get 8" for fill coat, 10" for finish coat. Butt seams get 10" on each side of tape for fill coat and 12" in three barely overlapping coats wide starting in the middle over the tape and then one on each side with about an inch overlap. Cornerbead is fill with 8" and finish with 10" mud knife. When wiping mud out from under the tape always start in the middle, swipe towards one end, then go back to the middle and swipe to the other end. This keeps the tape from wanting to pull away from the ends towards the middle or other side. Similar to what you saw when taping the ceiling and you pulled the tape away from the corner, which had the corner been run after the flat, it would have been more secured anyway.
Figured I'd share the details taught to me when I was an apprentice drywall finisher and what I passed along when I ended up being a journeyman drywall finisher.
Wrong
always love watching ur channel keep up the great work ♥♥
As always Primo!
The bloopers show the real real process. :D
Yaaay internet dad teaching us more stuff!
As always, you are entertaining as well as a good instructor! I noticed that during this tape and float, you had time to get a haircut! You and your family have a very merry Christmas. I'm glad to see that your wife is helping you film! 😊
I was wondering if anyone was going to notice the haircut. 😂 Thanks for watching!
Great set of videos! I HATE mudding drywall...
Me too! 😂
Beautiful job. Koda just wants to be with you.
I think the first video I saw of yours was the one where you explain how to fix drywall where the paper ripped off! Mudding is definitely an art.
Thanks for watching the videos! 😃
Thanks
😂 Nice closing “credits”
HEY!
21:00 remember to feather that edge, and y'all feather that Like button ;)
Hey Ben, Is that you Vancouver carpenter lol
That blooper real is literally every bit of me when i mud 😂🙈
A tip from this Old House you wet the paper tape then put it on the wall. Remove the excess water with two fingers
The bloopers...lmao 💀39:21 I feel this one to the core of my being.
The last 2 hurricanes flooded our home & we had to do our own sheetrock. I hope never too need to do that again. 🤞🏽
Too many o’s
Dear drywall finishing,
I hate you very much.
Love, Brian
Ps. Matt too! 😂
My contractor neighbor told me to use a moist sponge between each layer of mud to in effect wet sand. So: mud, dry; wet sponge & immediately mud again, dry; continue for each layer. Dry fully, then sand.
FREE TIP.....Wet your paper for the corners first in a bucket...Pull thru your fingers to get most of the water off the paper and put it up....Works great....try it !!
Well done for doing all that work without falling down those stairs! Couldn't you rig up a trap door? It would also improve access to the shelves I assume you will be erecting along the back wall.
feel like you're gonna leave alot of bubbles if you use dish soap
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Get some beeswax spray for those stainless appliances, easy peasy, the fingerprints are killing my ocd!
Would’ve been a cheap upgrade to throw some shiplap in that area. Small little accent that due to the small sq ft wouldn’t cost much.
And would look cheap
Cue the drywall experts! Before I started adding water to my drywall compound I used to get a lot of air bubbles in my finish. You want your mud to be more like whipped cream and a lot less dense than it comes out of the bucket. I finished my attic and after hanging and taping 40 sheets of board I can attest to the fact that it makes things a lot smoother and go easier.
I was just watching a marathon of your videos hoping this would be out today :D how's the black paint on the bulkhead area holding up?
Hey! Thanks for watching and supporting the channel! It is holding up good minus the fact that I wasn't careful with snow removal this past winter and I scrapped it off with a shovel. 😂
My technique is pretty radical. I add about 100mm, or 300 kilo's of top coat to each wall, then ;sculpt' it back to a semi even surface, not unlike the one I started with, shine a light on it, give up, drink a beer, call it a job well done.
how about a trap door? something you could walk on but then pull up when you needed to go down??
It already has one. You are only allowed one trap door per residence
@@terencemerritt man, forget the rules- i'd rather protect my family.
@@trueadrn I was just playing lol. I guess you can have as many trap doors as you want 🤷🏼♂️
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If your tap water was brown, that means there was iron oxide from an old water main that was working its way through the system. That would have made the mud set up *much* faster than usual.
Haven’t made it to the bloopers yet to see how you did it. I imagine it will look like a gorilla learning to paint…? I guess we shall see. Thank you for another great watch.
Thanks for watching!
Tape the flats first then corners last
What's next after this house is fully completed?
Fixing his “new” fixer upper house
Add some Joy dishwashing liquid to the Durabond to make it easier to sand. I don't remember how much, but somebody must know.
Don’t do this
Maybe it's just me but you'd have to be a psycho if you WERE a fan of taping and mudding!
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Town water brown? Do what we did growing up, after the fourth or fifth boil advisory in a few months in the early 90's none of us drank the tap water again. Filtered or bottled. Do it.
shoe mold or quarter round??
40:51 dirtied the kitchen? someone's in trouble lol
As a DIY-er I hate missing because I have a tendency of overworking it and I just don’t know when to stop, and it looks a lot worse, haha
Is it true you don't have Robertson screwdrivers there in the US? The Robertson screw was invented by a Canadian.
Definitely not true. We definitely have them, but these Phillips’s more than fine here
I love washing your channel how many years have you been doing you RUclips?
Why do you wash his channel? I enjoy watching it, but have never thought to wash it 🤔. May give it a go 😂
How much mud you use for that area bro?
Yes
Weeeeelllllllllll 😂
small room didnt need quick set, regular mud and it would of dry perfect,
What is your reasoning for this idea?
But will he wear eye protection...🧐😂
😂
Eye protection is for losers and people who care about their vision
@@TheFixerHomeRepair Having to take my ex to the ER twice during our marriage for "failure to wear eye protection", I get a little helicopter-mom. 🤣
Oh I get it! I try my best when doing certain things. This was pretty low risk. Thanks for watching!
lol
Remember, never lick your fingers. It is not frosting. ;)
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Don’t touch it! 😂Sometimes we try to be too perfect and then get those stupid little lines. 😩
He’s doing it wrong you supposed to do your flats first, then your angles
Wrong
This reminds me of the time I put my lettuce on my burger and THEN the cheese. It was wild. Still tasted exactly the same though.
As a drywall finisher for 37yrs this is painful to watch. Lol
MAKES "PAINFUL TO WATCH" COMMENT, DOESN'T BOTHER TO EXPLAIN WHY. GREAT JOB.
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My channel is all about teaching people that they don't have to be a professional with years of experience to work on their own house. I am not the best finisher, by far. Good thing is... I don't have to be. It came out great.
If you want people to do it "correctly" maybe make some videos. I'll watch. 😉😁 Thanks for the comment.
Let’s see your videos of a 37 year finisher and can get some tips then, I’d watch. I’ll be waiting. Good job Matt. I think it looks great