Same story here haha. This job needs a lot of practice following many steps and paying attention to so many small details it's insane. So many ways it can go wrong. Good luck.
Yep. I did finishing years ago and forgot how to do butt joints. I always put too little on. A big bright shop light shining down the side of the wall helps a lot.
I've been finishing drywall on and off since age 12 and was trained by guys who had done it their entire lives to the highest level of professionalism. You, sir, are one of the best I've seen. Any homeowner would be privileged to have you finishing their walls. Great work.
The explanation of where to leave the lift-offs was the most useful drywall info I have seen. Too many pros just go through the steps without explaining "why". This guy tells the how and the why. That is excellent.
It makes sense the way he explains it. Go wide, leave the lift offs and "heavier" coat on opposite sides so it can shrink and fill. They're easy to sand. Second coat is similar but a little more fussy.
I've been taping (not professionally) for more than 30 years and I have to admit that your clip here gave me some excellent tips and tricks! Thank you! Excellent presentation!
I'd like to second all the positive comments you already have posted! We just bought a house that requires a lot of updating and reno work. I wanted to do most of it on my own but have no experience at all. Your videos make me feel confident that I can do this! You are a natural teacher! Thanks for sharing your expertise to the world!
You make it look so easy! Me 5 minutes in to the job and I start thinking that the contractors price was fair.... but I already told my wife, family and friends that I will do it. Thanks for the tips, they really help out!
I am so impressed that you accept the deficiency of perfect performance and accept the norm. At the same time you show what has happened and how to deal with it. You are a true craftsman and educating instructor. They say that those who teach, can’t, but you are the exception to the rule. Thank you for your lessons.
Dude! you are very talented and not just the work you do... your ability to teach and communicate is awesome. I've been learning from several of your videos this weekend. Thanks!
Man..I had so much trouble with mud and watched a ton of videos..nothing clicked..till I found this dude...the prefilled and feathering videos were a game changer for me..the depth you go into and the close up shots of how it should look were lifesavers...
I have always been pretty bad at mud and taping drywall whenever I do my home repairs. We recently did some remodeling and I decided I was going to do a better job at finishing the wall so I went looking for good explainers and found your videos. I can't thank you enough for the effort you put into these because I think I finally learned a few tricks and did a halfway-decent job at finishing the wall to point where you really have to look to find the joints.
I have done drywall all my life, not professionally, as my dad taught me how to do everything myself around the house to save money and get the quality I wanted. I came here looking for good advice on how to do inside corners and watched your other video. Excellent! I was doing almost everything perfectly, all these years, but I didn't know to thin down the mud that much. Your advice helps tremendously. Maybe my dad did that but just handed me the bucket with the mud at the right consistency when I was working with him and didn't pay attention. I wondered why I always struggled as an adult to do inside corners at about quarter of the speed I did as a kid. Yes that is great advice! Really enjoying your videos. Now on to the rest of this one and more!
Awesome videos! To the point, pace is perfect. No goofy animations or loud music. I just finished all the subs- electric, plumbing, radiant floor, fire suppression system and hanging drywall with a lift by myself with no help! Plenty of code books and RUclips!. Getting ready to start tape/texture and am appreciative of your series. Barb
As a handyman, I really appreciate all your tips. Thanks for the tip on leaving the joint flat with a wide knife before the final feather. The challenge with so many small jobs is the number of coats required to get a nice joint without sanding A LOT. I use a padded 8 or 9" round manual sander with hook and loop paper. Works so much better for larger areas than the 3x8 pad. Thank you.
Thank you for your videos! My husband had a reaction to the gypsum in the drywall mud that was left by the handyman we hired, who didn’t finish the project. 😕 I watched your videos, went to the hardware store where a great salesperson helped me get exactly what I needed. It took me a few days but I’m really pleased with the end results. The best part was the job was done right (thanks to you), it was finished quickly and we saved $$$. My husband is now able to sleep in our bedroom again and no one would guess a newbie did the walls. 😀👍🏻👍🏻
@@danielbuckner2167 yes, he is apparently allergic to it. It caused shortness of breath, we thought it might be Covid but then learned that gypsum can cause this reaction as well. Seemed to prove true as he improved when no longer exposed.
I’m a painter but I inherited lots of small drywall fill in patches i’ve been using your method of doing the patchwork like a but joints the results are awesome. You can’t even see the patchwork after it’s done. Thank you for sharing keeping it simple to understand
I wish that you and RUclips had been around 40 years ago when I first starting doing drywall work to feed my family. I would have made a lot more money and a lot less headaches. Thanks for the videos.
So glad to see that someone knows how to do this properly. I’m a journeyman plumber by trade, took a maintenance job recently because my body is worn out, but damn, what happened to the trades in this country? I had to go to school to get my papers...
I've been doing drywall and painting for 35 years I've done the roller trick for the last 20 it saves A LOT OF TIME and I don't go home acking like I used to
Just wanted to say thank you for the great videos. I am very much an amateur who is is in position of having to do drywall repair work to my apartment. I have learned so much from you . Thank you again!
Great work and great video tutorial! In 1996 I was living in Abbotsford and doing drywall for Intergolf, mostly in Port Coquitlam. I did all the taping, closet and window returns, and all the sanding. I recently drywalled for the first time in almost 30 years. The smell is so nostalgic it brought back great memories. I wish I stuck to it for a few more years!
There is something about the presentation and the delivery of the information that makes you believe every word. I do not know the first thing about drywall/mudding but this guy makes it easy to think ...'I could do that"..Cut scene- Me, the floor and somehow the inside of the refrigerator covered in joint compound. Good stuff though VC, keep the videos coming.
Your lift joint explanation literally changed my life because my wife and I are building our own house and I'm actually looking forward to drywalling now. (little overstated, I know, but still....)
You BY FAR have the best drywall instructional out there . Anyone from beginners to seasoned pros can pick up tips from you. You should see if you can get yourself on one of those Home Improve shows.
I'm a newb "Do it Yourself" person and really appreciate this video. Very nice! Not sure why there are 40 dislikes though? Maybe other drywall people being overly critical?
@T S He explained that in other videos. He prefers the trowel for its obvious merits but because he recognizes that most homeowners who watch his videos are going to be using blades instead of trowels, he's teaching using the blade.
Unbelievable tutorial, Literally... The visual demonstration as well as explaining exactly what your doing with your hand... Description of the motion and exactly when and where to put pressure on on your knife... Grease A...
Hey I'm such a rookie when it comes to drywall after a few of ur videos I feel confident enough to break into this winter project. Thanks for the help and info
Thank you Sir Miles. I don't worry about what folks say on the internet. I have been doing this long enough to be confident in my methods. Also, its just anonymous people trying to knock someone down to lift themselves up. Once you grasp that the ignorant comments don't sting. The only thing that does sting is that we still have so far to go as a species in learning how to treat each other well. Thanks for the kind words.
Almost 40 years of slinging mud,now retired,it looks fairly easy for the laymen but it take a a lot of skill and experience to make it look good and I've had to go in and fix a lot of work done by homeowners who thought it was easy and would save them money but found out the hard way it cost them a lot more to have it redone by a professional drywall contractor, than it would of if they had it done by a contractor in the first place.
Fabian has nailed it. All you are doing is setting a lot of home owners up for some real stress and misery. Good for you. Ask everyone of your viewers to ask any tradesmen and they will tell you drywall is the hardest to learn by a country mile. You are being the ignorant one in the long one champ. A journeyman taper can do a flawless job, at half the price. How’s does that make your way of thinking so noble. Your laughable .
@@MsEasterbrook ; Babbling Brook, it's [You're] laughable. Really. You're laughable. "A journeyman taper can do a flawless job, at half the price." Too funny. In reality, far too many do a half-assed job for a price that sends wary gun-shy homeowners to the DIY store. VC is giving them the good oil now, on how to do it better.
Great video!! You did the close-up I needed to see. As a beginner doing a home project (garage) I found myself too critical of the lift-offs and kept making passes to try and get them out just making messy joints and more work for the sanding. I also loved the ceiling tip with the roller. You have helped alot of people like me, Keep up the good vids.
You should be critical. If you let the knife corner run along the tape from bother sides it will leave a hump on the oth sides of the joint with no loft off. Then for your skin coat you run a single pass down the center with both its sides tapered and that's it. If you did a nice job its sanded lightly once with 220 or real nice it gets mopped lightly. There is no reason for lap Mark's like those except maybe on full height cornerbead--- def not in a single butt joint like the first one where he lifts off halfway up. Take your time and do it right and you'll get it.🙂
I've seen a lot of videos like this. But the detail in which you elaborate the philosophy behind the application of the mud is something else. Watching it done well goes a long way, I do say -- But to hear you explain what you are thinking about what you are doing, and what you expect of the current application, in the context of what you will do in the next application, really makes it for me. Thanks kindly.
At last ... A trades man that knows what they're talking about, thank you for taking the time to explain and demonstrate ... and i couldn't agree more with you on the importance of "Pre-fill". Please keep making these video's, some of the "Pro's" just might learn something :)
Dude, seriously Thank you for this video. I'm struggling with drywall work at my job. I don't have much experience, but the bosses are asking us do do it inhouse. Putting the job on us. Which means we have to learn how to do mudding and joints.
I have been remodeling my kitchen. I decided to have the popcorn scraped off the ceiling and have it smoothed and painted. I have went through 2 drywall guys that cannot do it right. I have a ceiling left with pocks, scratches and a bow in the ceiling where my light fixture goes and they painted it. So, when I watched you run a skim and cover a butt joint; I realized these guys are not pro's. I'm having a third guy come and look at the ceiling. I sure like your video and I may practice on my garage and learn how to do this :-) Thanks for the excellent instruction on drywall!!
I'd like to see your technique using a trowel. I've started using trowels in my remodel work instead of big blades and would like to learn from others. Now my favorite blade is a very flexible 6". Thanks for sharing, great job.
We have a guy that does our drywall finishing and he used the roller for years and then he switched to an electric paint sprayer. Worked really well and super fast.
I skimmed to smooth finish a 14x20 textured ceiling with just a 12" knife. 2 coats is all it took but I was spent after that job. I was sore for a week since i had just recovered from pulled rib muscles on left side from excessive baseboard painting the week before, I was out of shape after the lockdowns this spring. The roller trick might have saved me on the 2nd coat. Sanding a whole ceiling over head on stilts with reaggravated pulled rib muscles wasnt easy especially wearing a respirator. I was sweating profusely and had to take a break often on the last 1/3 of the ceiling. I wasnt sure if i was gonna get thru it I was in such pain. It reminded me to charge more for skim coating ceilings. It looked great and i recovered.
Man , this young fella just taught me something i have never seen ! I have been a taper for 27 years and never seen anyone roll on mud for final coat ! Like ever . Good job man . I will be using this technique on my next contract that starts tomorrow. Thanks bud
Thank you for these awesome videos. I've learned alot. We have alot of damages done on almost every corner of our walls. We have lived here for 16 years and nothing was ever done to them until now.
Epic. I started watching your videos when my property manager told us we would have to start doing our own drywall repairs, but our team is largely terrible at it. As a matter of fact I wasn't supposed to do it at all because of how bad it was. Now, PM loves my work and the service manager gives all of them to me. Thanks! Are you on Instagram?
Dear VC, I have been window washing for 20 years and started getting joint pain. I cut out bread and of course sugar and the pain reduced considerably. The next step was to go carnivore only, that was a bit boring, however, the joint pain went away, flexibility returned and I dropped 20 pounds very easily. Joe Rogan has some very interesting information from Jordan Petersen( a fellow Canadian) and his daughter. Thanks for all you do!
I also do the paint roller trick! I am a very detailed kind of guy, just like you. I use the roller for all coats ( 2 ) and have no problems at all. I also don't bang the roller against the bucket, I just wipe down the bottom edge where most of the mud usually hangs on the roller. I've even used the roller without a drop cloth over carpet before - shouldn't have done that haha, and I don't anymore, but the point is, you can leave all the mud on the roller, wipe the bottom heavy edge and the tip quickly and apply, just getting good at that and you can definitely do 2 coats with the roller. 4' per roll is the max you get typically, I use a smaller size roller, in between of a thick and thin roller. I think a size 20. Hope that helps. Hawk and trowel all the way.
@@vancouvercarpenter Awesome! Yea I love your videos, I know I made my previous comment almost a year ago but yea just watching this video again reminded me that if you feel like you can't get enough mud on the wall unless you use your trowel or knife, than you're definitely putting on too much mud. For me my first coat and my second coat I can see right through all of it, I can see all my screw holes, my tape etc on first coat, second coat I can also see through that as well just much less. You should be able to see through as much as possible (consistently) while not being able to feel anything, than you know it will be perfect. When it comes to that just after a little bit of time it's easy to know when you've gone too far or vice a versa. If you're mud is on at least 36" wide for a butt joint and you can see through it, than you can hang cabinets with ease. Just started using a 18" roller and it's amazing. What do you recommend is the best tool for production mudding of walls and not corners? I also bought the semi automatic taper from columbia recently which has been a huge time saver, also got that reference from your semi automatic taping video so thank you :).
@@arayahomes8754 If you are doing a LOT of drywall often than flat boxes are great. I had a set but they collected dust. I never did enough volume to bother using them.
The only real mystery for beginners is not understanding you have to create the flat surface by feathering out significantly enough from the joint in order to sufficiently conceal it. Most beginners slop a whole crap load of mud on in a thin strip barely wider than the tape and think they're just going to sand it down and end up with a perfectly flat joint ready for paint. Once you understand that concept any mystery is gone. The rest is just getting a feel for the process, and that can only be done through repetition. It can't be taught.
At 7:42 probably one of the most important tips to hear and understand...your drywall knife blade has a curve to it. I had to learn this on my own, the hard way! Makes a big difference when the curve is put against the wall
Thank you very much! There was so little traction I just lost steam with these and haven't made any for ages. I have a skateboard channel with 5000 subscribers that gets most of my attention but I will see what I can do about posting some more on here. I just noticed the sub count on here jumped by about 8 people in a couple days which was a surprise to me.
Great video as always, thanks! Here's a trick I use. I have a four-foot aluminum rule - it's about 1/8" thick. When you put the edge against the wall with a little pressure and move it from side to side, it will leave a little aluminum behind, indicating any high (or low) spots.
Key comment was scratches after sanding. Paint does not fill the scratches or smooth them. Scratches will show through paint. I keep an old sponge sander to put the smooth sand on repairs.
That's a common mistake. Most mud doesn't say anything on the container about thinning it. But if you don't thin it it's going to behave more like spackle than how you actually want mud to behave.
Thanks so much for all your videos, you're doing amazing work! Few people on RUclips are as clear, precise, and methodical as you are and I've learned a ton of new tricks watching your videos.
I was a taper for over 45 years. I have finished drywall using all the various tools beginning with hand taping and including including the set of machine tools I eventually purchased. Smooth wall does not phase me. I started with 12" and 16" trowels for coating over tape. After 6 years I switched to blades and kept using my hawk! Why? Blades are easier on the wrists and hands! Blades are faster! Blades allow you to reach higher and lower easier. For example if u are running the bead in an 8' house you can reach it from the floor with a blade rather than having to run the top half on your stilts with a trowel unless you are an NBA player. He has the right idea but should be able to pull 4' on butt joints rather than only 2' which adds to time. Same on bottom butts. Start at bottom and put mud on up to 4' in one stroke. Piecework means speed and working smart. The techniques can be applied for DIY! My advice to this nice young man with only 8 years in the trade is to switch to blades which will save his body to a greater degree and speed up his finishing. Of course the machine tools used properly can also help although the tube seems to have caused back problems in many tapers. Fortunately I never had any issues physically. My own technique for butt joints is unique and quick and they NEVER show even on smooth walls....
Nice! I admit I am not proficient with a knife. I can easily get a 4 foot spread with a trowel though as that is primarily what i use. I'm actually doing a lot less taping these days thankfully. Lot's of carpentry and painting in the mix these days.
@Hamilton Rodgers , Yep and you could load even more on a 14" coved trowel... you wanna hump a lot of mud, pull a butt better than w/ a 14" flat trowel... go w/ a coved trowel... Marshal Town & Goldblatt have them.
Lifesaving vids! Many craftsmen out there want to make this work sound harder than it is. Not that it is easy, but you demystify it for those of us with little experience, giving us courage to persevere.
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i watch a bunch of mudding videos and my confidence goes way up. I then go and start doing it and it turns into a disaster, lol.
Same story here haha. This job needs a lot of practice following many steps and paying attention to so many small details it's insane. So many ways it can go wrong. Good luck.
Lol...you're not wrong
You’re not alone!
Tell me about it . But none the less I’m pretty proud of myself 😭😭
Yep. I did finishing years ago and forgot how to do butt joints. I always put too little on. A big bright shop light shining down the side of the wall helps a lot.
I've been finishing drywall on and off since age 12 and was trained by guys who had done it their entire lives to the highest level of professionalism. You, sir, are one of the best I've seen. Any homeowner would be privileged to have you finishing their walls. Great work.
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The explanation of where to leave the lift-offs was the most useful drywall info I have seen. Too many pros just go through the steps without explaining "why". This guy tells the how and the why. That is excellent.
It makes sense the way he explains it. Go wide, leave the lift offs and "heavier" coat on opposite sides so it can shrink and fill. They're easy to sand. Second coat is similar but a little more fussy.
I been remodeling and painting/ drywalling 20 years now. You do great work with a great attitude. Thanks for the video.
Thanks John:)
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@@justindecker9557 What the heck, Dude?
can you check my Instagram. I'm very professional, only check and follow me if you want
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@@justindecker9557 can you check my Instagram. I'm very professional, only check and follow me if you want
ELT Taping
Love your channel
No begging for Likes and Subscribes
No REALLY annoying music
Instead, you deliver high quality, great instructional videos
Thank you
I've been taping (not professionally) for more than 30 years and I have to admit that your clip here gave me some excellent tips and tricks! Thank you! Excellent presentation!
I'd like to second all the positive comments you already have posted! We just bought a house that requires a lot of updating and reno work. I wanted to do most of it on my own but have no experience at all. Your videos make me feel confident that I can do this! You are a natural teacher! Thanks for sharing your expertise to the world!
You make it look so easy! Me 5 minutes in to the job and I start thinking that the contractors price was fair.... but I already told my wife, family and friends that I will do it.
Thanks for the tips, they really help out!
I am so impressed that you accept the deficiency of perfect performance and accept the norm. At the same time you show what has happened and how to deal with it. You are a true craftsman and educating instructor. They say that those who teach, can’t, but you are the exception to the rule. Thank you for your lessons.
Thats an insightful comment - they didn't anticipate RUclips when they came up with that saying! lol! On 'tha tube' you can see doers AND teachers!
I'm not a drywaller - I don't think I ever will be. So why am I watching these videos; why did I subscribe? It's so compelling, I can't stop!!!
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Dude! you are very talented and not just the work you do... your ability to teach and communicate is awesome. I've been learning from several of your videos this weekend. Thanks!
I couldn't agree more this man's attention to detail & his ability to explain what he's talkin about is second to none!
@@justindecker9557 wtf does that have to do with anything?
Spank Juicer lol
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Man..I had so much trouble with mud and watched a ton of videos..nothing clicked..till I found this dude...the prefilled and feathering videos were a game changer for me..the depth you go into and the close up shots of how it should look were lifesavers...
I have always been pretty bad at mud and taping drywall whenever I do my home repairs. We recently did some remodeling and I decided I was going to do a better job at finishing the wall so I went looking for good explainers and found your videos.
I can't thank you enough for the effort you put into these because I think I finally learned a few tricks and did a halfway-decent job at finishing the wall to point where you really have to look to find the joints.
I have done drywall all my life, not professionally, as my dad taught me how to do everything myself around the house to save money and get the quality I wanted. I came here looking for good advice on how to do inside corners and watched your other video. Excellent! I was doing almost everything perfectly, all these years, but I didn't know to thin down the mud that much. Your advice helps tremendously. Maybe my dad did that but just handed me the bucket with the mud at the right consistency when I was working with him and didn't pay attention. I wondered why I always struggled as an adult to do inside corners at about quarter of the speed I did as a kid. Yes that is great advice! Really enjoying your videos. Now on to the rest of this one and more!
Awesome videos! To the point, pace is perfect. No goofy animations or loud music. I just finished all the subs- electric, plumbing, radiant floor, fire suppression system and hanging drywall with a lift by myself with no help! Plenty of code books and RUclips!. Getting ready to start tape/texture and am appreciative of your series. Barb
Hands down best tutorial I've ever seen and I've seen a lot! You have no clue how appreciative I am right now. Thank you brother.
As a handyman, I really appreciate all your tips. Thanks for the tip on leaving the joint flat with a wide knife before the final feather. The challenge with so many small jobs is the number of coats required to get a nice joint without sanding A LOT. I use a padded 8 or 9" round manual sander with hook and loop paper. Works so much better for larger areas than the 3x8 pad. Thank you.
Seriously, you are the absolute best drywall youtuber of all time. so much valuable info. Excellent at explaining.
The best drywall channel period
I agree, he is great at it.
Thank you for your videos! My husband had a reaction to the gypsum in the drywall mud that was left by the handyman we hired, who didn’t finish the project. 😕 I watched your videos, went to the hardware store where a great salesperson helped me get exactly what I needed. It took me a few days but I’m really pleased with the end results. The best part was the job was done right (thanks to you), it was finished quickly and we saved $$$. My husband is now able to sleep in our bedroom again and no one would guess a newbie did the walls. 😀👍🏻👍🏻
A reaction to gypsum?
@@danielbuckner2167 yes, he is apparently allergic to it. It caused shortness of breath, we thought it might be Covid but then learned that gypsum can cause this reaction as well. Seemed to prove true as he improved when no longer exposed.
@@martim6071 Do you guys live in a house that is less than 30 years old in the US?
I'm such a amateur, have a small bit of drywall to fit and finish around a door. You've really helped me.
I’m a painter but I inherited lots of small drywall fill in patches i’ve been using your method of doing the patchwork like a but joints the results are awesome. You can’t even see the patchwork after it’s done. Thank you for sharing keeping it simple to understand
You're a stickler for detail which makes your explanations wonderful. I keep learning video after video. Thanks Ben
I wish that you and RUclips had been around 40 years ago when I first starting doing drywall work to feed my family. I would have made a lot more money and a lot less headaches. Thanks for the videos.
So glad to see that someone knows how to do this properly. I’m a journeyman plumber by trade, took a maintenance job recently because my body is worn out, but damn, what happened to the trades in this country? I had to go to school to get my papers...
I hear you. Doing adequate work has become exceptional!
I've been doing drywall and painting for 35 years I've done the roller trick for the last 20 it saves A LOT OF TIME and I don't go home acking like I used to
What is a roller trick? Do you mind sharing? Sounds like a must know.
At 11:18 . He uses a roller to put the mud on the ceiling butt joints on final coat.
Just wanted to say thank you for the great videos. I am very much an amateur who is is in position of having to do drywall repair work to my apartment. I have learned so much from you . Thank you again!
Great, clear explanations. This is the best part of the internet, people reaching out to help others learn stuff...
Im a decorator in uk of 20 year experience, and i love getting new tips and tricks. the roller one is awesome, you're a legend thanks ;-)
Hy do you do a lot of drywall in UK?
@@darkseta34 In general its not usually the way things are done here. Its normally plastering. But we do a a bit of it yeah.
Great work and great video tutorial! In 1996 I was living in Abbotsford and doing drywall for Intergolf, mostly in Port Coquitlam. I did all the taping, closet and window returns, and all the sanding. I recently drywalled for the first time in almost 30 years. The smell is so nostalgic it brought back great memories. I wish I stuck to it for a few more years!
There is something about the presentation and the delivery of the information that makes you believe every word. I do not know the first thing about drywall/mudding but this guy makes it easy to think ...'I could do that"..Cut scene- Me, the floor and somehow the inside of the refrigerator covered in joint compound. Good stuff though VC, keep the videos coming.
Your lift joint explanation literally changed my life because my wife and I are building our own house and I'm actually looking forward to drywalling now. (little overstated, I know, but still....)
Roller part was cool but I couldn't take my eyes off that backdrop out that window. Beautiful
You BY FAR have the best drywall instructional out there . Anyone from beginners to seasoned pros can pick up tips from you. You should see if you can get yourself on one of those Home Improve shows.
I'm a newb "Do it Yourself" person and really appreciate this video. Very nice!
Not sure why there are 40 dislikes though? Maybe other drywall people being overly critical?
Drywallers are asshats, there's always one who isn't the one doing the job who thinks they can do it better.
@T S He explained that in other videos. He prefers the trowel for its obvious merits but because he recognizes that most homeowners who watch his videos are going to be using blades instead of trowels, he's teaching using the blade.
I converted to 12" trowel and hawk because of him. So much faster and easier on just a little learning curve. Thanks for your awesome videos!
This kid is so good and made such an informative video that I can't even bring myself to troll the guy. ...thank for posting this. Great job!
I love RUclips. Thank you for making all these videos. First timer here. You make it look so easy.
Dude you're a fantastic instructor! I'm starting my basement finish now and this channel is priceless!
Unbelievable tutorial, Literally... The visual demonstration as well as explaining exactly what your doing with your hand... Description of the motion and exactly when and where to put pressure on on your knife... Grease A...
Very helpful instructional video. I learned more from this video than most of the other videos I have watched.
Thanks Harvey.
Hey I'm such a rookie when it comes to drywall after a few of ur videos I feel confident enough to break into this winter project. Thanks for the help and info
Great job. Dont worry about naysayers. Been doing this for 30 plus years and learned something. You can teach an old Minister new tricks. God bless
Thank you Sir Miles. I don't worry about what folks say on the internet. I have been doing this long enough to be confident in my methods. Also, its just anonymous people trying to knock someone down to lift themselves up. Once you grasp that the ignorant comments don't sting. The only thing that does sting is that we still have so far to go as a species in learning how to treat each other well. Thanks for the kind words.
Almost 40 years of slinging mud,now retired,it looks fairly easy for the laymen but it take a a lot of skill and experience to make it look good and I've had to go in and fix a lot of work done by homeowners who thought it was easy and would save them money but found out the hard way it cost them a lot more to have it redone by a professional drywall contractor, than it would of if they had it done by a contractor in the first place.
Fabian has nailed it. All you are doing is setting a lot of home owners up for some real stress and misery. Good for you. Ask everyone of your viewers to ask any tradesmen and they will tell you drywall is the hardest to learn by a country mile. You are being the ignorant one in the long one champ. A journeyman taper can do a flawless job, at half the price. How’s does that make your way of thinking so noble. Your laughable .
@@MsEasterbrook seething.
@@MsEasterbrook ; Babbling Brook, it's [You're] laughable. Really. You're laughable. "A journeyman taper can do a flawless job, at half the price." Too funny. In reality, far too many do a half-assed job for a price that sends wary gun-shy homeowners to the DIY store. VC is giving them the good oil now, on how to do it better.
I can watch these videos all day long and still be left with questions on how to finish drywall because there are so many ways to do it.
Great video!! You did the close-up I needed to see. As a beginner doing a home project (garage) I found myself too critical of the lift-offs and kept making passes to try and get them out just making messy joints and more work for the sanding. I also loved the ceiling tip with the roller. You have helped alot of people like me, Keep up the good vids.
You should be critical. If you let the knife corner run along the tape from bother sides it will leave a hump on the oth sides of the joint with no loft off. Then for your skin coat you run a single pass down the center with both its sides tapered and that's it. If you did a nice job its sanded lightly once with 220 or real nice it gets mopped lightly. There is no reason for lap Mark's like those except maybe on full height cornerbead--- def not in a single butt joint like the first one where he lifts off halfway up. Take your time and do it right and you'll get it.🙂
I've seen a lot of videos like this. But the detail in which you elaborate the philosophy behind the application of the mud is something else. Watching it done well goes a long way, I do say -- But to hear you explain what you are thinking about what you are doing, and what you expect of the current application, in the context of what you will do in the next application, really makes it for me. Thanks kindly.
At last ... A trades man that knows what they're talking about, thank you for taking the time to explain and demonstrate ... and i couldn't agree more with you on the importance of "Pre-fill".
Please keep making these video's, some of the "Pro's" just might learn something :)
Best. Video. Ever. Thank you for explaining why my freshly drywalled room still looks like crap after mudding.
I’ve learned more watching your videos then from coworkers that supposed to know it all.
Excellent video. I am just a home owner and diy'er but I hate the bumps in the walls so this really helps me understand how to do it correctly.
Hi I really like ur channel ur a bright guy and explain stuff really well and that’s come n from a 25 yr journeyman ty keep it up
Dude, seriously Thank you for this video. I'm struggling with drywall work at my job. I don't have much experience, but the bosses are asking us do do it inhouse. Putting the job on us. Which means we have to learn how to do mudding and joints.
This is very relaxing to watch, like watching Bob Ross. :)
It’s his voice
I have been remodeling my kitchen. I decided to have the popcorn scraped off the ceiling and have it smoothed and painted. I have went through 2 drywall guys that cannot do it right.
I have a ceiling left with pocks, scratches and a bow in the ceiling where my light fixture goes and they painted it. So, when I watched you run a skim and cover a butt joint; I realized these guys are not pro's. I'm having a third guy come and look at the ceiling. I sure like your video and I may practice on my garage and learn how to do this :-) Thanks for the excellent instruction on drywall!!
I'd like to see your technique using a trowel. I've started using trowels in my remodel work instead of big blades and would like to learn from others. Now my favorite blade is a very flexible 6". Thanks for sharing, great job.
I like the way he explains every detail, this guy is a professional, Thank you sir. Leroy Chavez.
I've been a contractor a long time, well done and to the point. Thank you Sir !
PS : never overwork the mud.
We have a guy that does our drywall finishing and he used the roller for years and then he switched to an electric paint sprayer. Worked really well and super fast.
Best drywall videos!! Keep it up! Your content is great and your work is good. Thanks!!!
Best channel to learn. Covers all the knowledge required. You have excellent communication skills
Awesome videos! I needed a refresher after doing this with my dad 20+ years ago, and you are a great teacher. Great work!
Same ❤
I skimmed to smooth finish a 14x20 textured ceiling with just a 12" knife. 2 coats is all it took but I was spent after that job. I was sore for a week since i had just recovered from pulled rib muscles on left side from excessive baseboard painting the week before, I was out of shape after the lockdowns this spring. The roller trick might have saved me on the 2nd coat. Sanding a whole ceiling over head on stilts with reaggravated pulled rib muscles wasnt easy especially wearing a respirator. I was sweating profusely and had to take a break often on the last 1/3 of the ceiling. I wasnt sure if i was gonna get thru it I was in such pain. It reminded me to charge more for skim coating ceilings. It looked great and i recovered.
Never realized about the knife blade curve. Thanks, Ben!
Turn it the other way for help with tapered joints
@@Ryan-ky3nr yeah, hes using it backwards.
Man , this young fella just taught me something i have never seen ! I have been a taper for 27 years and never seen anyone roll on mud for final coat ! Like ever . Good job man . I will be using this technique on my next contract that starts tomorrow. Thanks bud
And even faster way is to use a box wide open, I literally box everything with no issues ever. That butt joint looked like it was 4' wide lol
U should make a "how to" book. Id buy it. Listing all the tools and terms and methods.
Thank you for these awesome videos. I've learned alot. We have alot of damages done on almost every corner of our walls. We have lived here for 16 years and nothing was ever done to them until now.
first time I have ever seen the roller trick... and my goodness is that awesome!! great video!!
Mostly used for level 5ing a wall
And like he said you better feather those edges fast. That shit dries quick.
@Joshua Dowling He rolled the mud on the ceiling as oppose to trailing or spraying.
I really appreciate that roller trick on the final coat, I'm like you I've burned out my shoulders too. You do a great job, THANK YOU V.C.
Epic. I started watching your videos when my property manager told us we would have to start doing our own drywall repairs, but our team is largely terrible at it. As a matter of fact I wasn't supposed to do it at all because of how bad it was. Now, PM loves my work and the service manager gives all of them to me. Thanks! Are you on Instagram?
I've been remodeling my house and I just wanna say you have the best videos by far and have helped me so much thank you sir
Excellent Video and commentary. A suggestion .. you should conduct short evening courses for wanna be handyman like me !!!
These are the best drywalling videos I've ever seen.
Wow, dude I'm learning so much from you! It's like the cheapest college EVER!
Dear VC, I have been window washing for 20 years and started getting joint pain. I cut out bread and of course sugar and the pain reduced considerably. The next step was to go carnivore only, that was a bit boring, however, the joint pain went away, flexibility returned and I dropped 20 pounds very easily. Joe Rogan has some very interesting information from Jordan Petersen( a fellow Canadian) and his daughter.
Thanks for all you do!
I also do the paint roller trick! I am a very detailed kind of guy, just like you. I use the roller for all coats ( 2 ) and have no problems at all. I also don't bang the roller against the bucket, I just wipe down the bottom edge where most of the mud usually hangs on the roller. I've even used the roller without a drop cloth over carpet before - shouldn't have done that haha, and I don't anymore, but the point is, you can leave all the mud on the roller, wipe the bottom heavy edge and the tip quickly and apply, just getting good at that and you can definitely do 2 coats with the roller. 4' per roll is the max you get typically, I use a smaller size roller, in between of a thick and thin roller. I think a size 20. Hope that helps. Hawk and trowel all the way.
I haven't been doing it much lately but I have a lot of ceilings coming up.
@@vancouvercarpenter Awesome! Yea I love your videos, I know I made my previous comment almost a year ago but yea just watching this video again reminded me that if you feel like you can't get enough mud on the wall unless you use your trowel or knife, than you're definitely putting on too much mud. For me my first coat and my second coat I can see right through all of it, I can see all my screw holes, my tape etc on first coat, second coat I can also see through that as well just much less. You should be able to see through as much as possible (consistently) while not being able to feel anything, than you know it will be perfect. When it comes to that just after a little bit of time it's easy to know when you've gone too far or vice a versa. If you're mud is on at least 36" wide for a butt joint and you can see through it, than you can hang cabinets with ease. Just started using a 18" roller and it's amazing.
What do you recommend is the best tool for production mudding of walls and not corners? I also bought the semi automatic taper from columbia recently which has been a huge time saver, also got that reference from your semi automatic taping video so thank you :).
@@arayahomes8754 If you are doing a LOT of drywall often than flat boxes are great. I had a set but they collected dust. I never did enough volume to bother using them.
He takes the “mystery “ out of rocking and taping ❗️
The only real mystery for beginners is not understanding you have to create the flat surface by feathering out significantly enough from the joint in order to sufficiently conceal it. Most beginners slop a whole crap load of mud on in a thin strip barely wider than the tape and think they're just going to sand it down and end up with a perfectly flat joint ready for paint.
Once you understand that concept any mystery is gone. The rest is just getting a feel for the process, and that can only be done through repetition. It can't be taught.
0:25 "I will struggle along with you with this giant, over-sized, tool." Sigh. We all have our crosses to bear. 👍🤣
haha I heard Archer say "phrasing???"
At 7:42 probably one of the most important tips to hear and understand...your drywall knife blade has a curve to it.
I had to learn this on my own, the hard way! Makes a big difference when the curve is put against the wall
Keep making videos. It’s just a matter of time before people discover these hidden gems.
Thank you very much! There was so little traction I just lost steam with these and haven't made any for ages. I have a skateboard channel with 5000 subscribers that gets most of my attention but I will see what I can do about posting some more on here. I just noticed the sub count on here jumped by about 8 people in a couple days which was a surprise to me.
@@vancouvercarpenter well you just got one more subscriber here mate 😊👍 great video and well explained, keep them coming 👍
@@vancouvercarpenter Oh yeah, and I'm a professional bathroom installer and also do handyman type work on the side and still learned from your video 👍
Great video as always, thanks! Here's a trick I use. I have a four-foot aluminum rule - it's about 1/8" thick. When you put the edge against the wall with a little pressure and move it from side to side, it will leave a little aluminum behind, indicating any high (or low) spots.
Key comment was scratches after sanding. Paint does not fill the scratches or smooth them. Scratches will show through paint. I keep an old sponge sander to put the smooth sand on repairs.
Your drywall videos saved me 5x’s, bro! Thank you!
Took me nearly 45 minutes to do my equivalent of that first one, and now I know why, my mud was waaaaay to dry.
That's a common mistake. Most mud doesn't say anything on the container about thinning it. But if you don't thin it it's going to behave more like spackle than how you actually want mud to behave.
I feel like you made this video just for me because it has answer every question i had and described the situation i had . Thanks great video
You make it look so easy how would you like to come demonstrate using my wall 😂 I just sit looking at it scratching my head lol😁
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Thanks so much for all your videos, you're doing amazing work! Few people on RUclips are as clear, precise, and methodical as you are and I've learned a ton of new tricks watching your videos.
I recognize you, You're a skateboarder too!
I've watched 100 of these throughout time. By far the best. Thank you..!
Im sure your video was great but I missed the whole thing cos I was too busy looking out the window at the view you have there!! 😲
Have you tried ridlin? That adhd can be a real hell.
Always a pleasure seeing a craftsman at work
Great stuff again, really enjoy your teaching videos. That place has an amazing view, is that on the north shore ?
It's right at stanley park. So you get a view from Richmond to the North shore. I have worked in about ten units in that building.
You make it look so easy. I usually put 5 pounds of mud on and sand 4 pounds of it off haha
When I go to buy mud, I see one on the shelf. 😳 Bought a 5 min mud and found out I’m not fast emough🤨
5 min is only for tiny repairs.
Thanks! I have been fixing my walls and this channel has helped a lot!
Damnnn!!! You are god with that knife 😂
he is tall and has long arms too.
Lots of guys on U tube are good. Your very good and you explain it the best,knowing why to do it a certain way teaches us better.🤙🏽
I was a taper for over 45 years. I have finished drywall using all the various tools beginning with hand taping and including including the set of machine tools I eventually purchased. Smooth wall does not phase me. I started with 12" and 16" trowels for coating over tape. After 6 years I switched to blades and kept using my hawk! Why? Blades are easier on the wrists and hands! Blades are faster! Blades allow you to reach higher and lower easier. For example if u are running the bead in an 8' house you can reach it from the floor with a blade rather than having to run the top half on your stilts with a trowel unless you are an NBA player. He has the right idea but should be able to pull 4' on butt joints rather than only 2' which adds to time. Same on bottom butts. Start at bottom and put mud on up to 4' in one stroke. Piecework means speed and working smart. The techniques can be applied for DIY! My advice to this nice young man with only 8 years in the trade is to switch to blades which will save his body to a greater degree and speed up his finishing. Of course the machine tools used properly can also help although the tube seems to have caused back problems in many tapers. Fortunately I never had any issues physically. My own technique for butt joints is unique and quick and they NEVER show even on smooth walls....
Nice! I admit I am not proficient with a knife. I can easily get a 4 foot spread with a trowel though as that is primarily what i use. I'm actually doing a lot less taping these days thankfully. Lot's of carpentry and painting in the mix these days.
Yep! I'm 40 years into it and use 14" coved blade for butts. And I never use stainless for anything ever.
@Hamilton Rodgers , Yep and you could load even more on a 14" coved trowel... you wanna hump a lot of mud, pull a butt better than w/ a 14" flat trowel... go w/ a coved trowel... Marshal Town & Goldblatt have them.
I agree I started with a trowel and it was not long until I went to blades
@Hamilton Rodgers ya but then you have to wipe 10 times to remove all the extra
Amazing working, love watching your videos but I could not keep my eyes off the view that house had absolutely breath taking.
Awesome
Lifesaving vids! Many craftsmen out there want to make this work sound harder than it is. Not that it is easy, but you demystify it for those of us with little experience, giving us courage to persevere.