Question about taping drywall

[Irving]

Use a flashlight hello at a steep angle against the wall to highlight your mud and texture work BEFORE you paint it. The flashlight will show you everything you did that still needs work. DIY drywall is often done after work, at night. Once done, and you open up the windows and that natural light comes pouring in from any adjacent windows and it looks terrible. That's why you check with a flashlight first. Any seam you are mudding should be feathered out at least 6" on either side, and honestly probably even further if you're new, to avoid looking like you have worms all over the wall.

[Wulf202]

Sigh, this project just got longer/messier. Scraping texture off every place the new drywall meets old - corners, ceiling and the single butt joint - is going to suck. Oh well, I suspected as much. Thanks for the advice and textured walls suck.



Maybe? Every time I have found a picture that seems to match my current texture, it seems to be called slap brush. All I know is it is put on with a brush:

It's also called stomp. Slap brush is more of a category of texture that stomp, stipple, crows foot and double crowsfoot fall under. Stomp and stipple use the same brush with different pressure. Crows foot is a brush with the bristles running parallel to the wall surface. Double is 2 brushes attached to eachother.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/ANVIL-5-...2032/308729557
Here's the brush you need.

Buy a solid, non extension pole that you can reach all your spots with. You'll be beating it up so make sure it's not a cheap broom handle.

Buy a paddle mixer and mud in the bucket or a clean 5gal and a box of mud. Add about 1.5 liter of water per box of mud. Mix thoroughly with the paddle mixer.

If you have a small area, slap the brush on the surface of the mud bucket then on the wall hard enough to make the bristles bend. repeat until the entire surface is covered. It's best to break up inside corners into separate jobs for a beginner.

Larger area spray with a texture gun on the heaviest setting and coat the drywall, then smack the brush on the wall moving each hit. Best done with 2 people as loading a texture hopper alone is a pain.

[Mazin]

Don't forget to sand down the texture a bit after its done (after 1st prime coat).

When i met my wife and went over to the MIL house the first time I noticed was her drywall guy never did the sanding. That texture was so sharp that if you rubbed against it you'd be losing blood. So new guy trying to earn some brownie points I came buy the next week with paint and a pole sander, well brownie points and the fact of i planned on being there more and seeing that would drive me nuts.