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Ultradog MN

Ultradog MN

Well-known Member
Location
Twin Cities
No,
Not the kind you get your tractor stuck in.
The other kind.
This is our new master bedroom - or will be.
I hung this ceiling 2 week ends ago and then
blew in about R50 worth of insulation.
Don't have the sheetrock on the walls yet
but have some time today so thought I'd get
the ceiling taped.
I used Durabond 90 which is a setting type
joint compound. Going to have some lunch
here and second coat it in an hour or two.
I figured I might as well get in practice as
tomorrow I will start the mud on about 800
square feet of drywall I hung in the job I'm
doing.
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Man, that makes my back, elbows and shoulders hurt just looking at it.
Have done my share of drywall finishing and every time I have done it in the last 20 years, I say I will never do it again.
I think I have done my last now. I hurt too much.
Nice job you have done there though
Richard
 
It really looks good. I like the look of the room. What is your "job" I don't remember if you have said or not.
 
Did some of that back in the day and I always thought it would be one of the toughest jobs on the planet. One or two rooms OK but doing it for a living day after day and year after year ..... not for me. That would include putting up the board as well.
 
Well,
I stayed at it and wiped on two more coats.
A coat of Easy Sand - setting type mud that's not so hard and a coat of Plus 3 which has to dry overnight.
Got it flat.
Now I'll fuss with it a couple times more with more Plus 3 to get it smooth.
No texture or knock down here. I know it's popular but I dont like the stuff and am willing to spend the extra labor to make it flat.
Am a carpenter by trade. Mostly design/build bathrooms. Doing a family/tv room in the basemement for a good, repeat customer now. Never much liked hanging the sheetrock and at 63 the 30 sheets I just hung for them was a bit much to do alone. Gotter done tho.
But I don't mind the mud. Kinda like it even.

"The glory is in the mudding boys. The glory is in the mud."

Thanks to all who replied.
 
Just for a little tip. On a surface that BIG! A real old timmer showed me and my dad this trick. He had been doing REAL plaster walls for years. Took a piece of wood maybe 24 inches wide on a broom handle with a swivel so it could pivot. Thumb tack sheets of sand pater onto it. Takes the tiny ripples out very nicely. He started doing sheet rock cause no one wanted plaster anymore.
 
Years ago, I walked into a house under construction where the crew was putting up drywall. There was one real tall guy with huge arms who would put a few nails around the perimeter of a piece and swing it up over his head to the ceiling and as he was jamming it against the next one let go with one hand (that held his hammer) and pound in the nails in succession. It was unbelievable and if I didn't see it myself, I wouldn't have believed it. He did it so fast and smoothly it was hard to figure how he ever learned the technique.
 

A friend kept at me for a week a few years ago, so I finally gave in and went to help him finish his attic one Saturday. It of course had the vertical walls, the slanted ceiling and the horizontal ceiling. He had already started the job by putting up the vertical walls, which of course is backwards, then he insisted on using many small pieces, in order to use less 'rock. He had a guy come in and mud it for very short money despite the great length of joints, and having to prop the sags on the slanted parts.
 
Friend of mine, former State Trooper, said "If you walk up to the truck and see drywall stilts in the back, there's dope in the front..."

The guy that finished our drywall told of one job where the homeowner hung the rock, then paid him to finish it. He did a pretty good job, until they looked inside the closets- he used every single scrap piece inside the closet spaces, even some of the electrical box cutouts. He said they laughed about it, and then treated it like a plaster job and just skim coated the whole thing, really not that bad.
 
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