These guys make it look so easy - drywall taping & applying mud

[Canuck57]

After drywalling my basement in a prior house I should have hired a professional. Thomas was too far away though!

 

[Certainkindoffool]

Drywalling is like Lego with mild forethought required. Mudding is an art - and not my strong suite. As much as I would like to get into Venetian plaster, I have a 'can't see the forest for the trees' issue whenever I try to level something by eye.

 

[Canuck57]

Drywalling is like Lego with mild forethought required. Mudding is an art - and not my strong suite. As much as I would like to get into Venetian plaster, I have a 'can't see the forest for the trees' issue whenever I try to level something by eye.

Hey neighbour!

 

[Webninja]

I agree, and I even bought nice tools last time I tried to mud. Didn’t help the final outcome.

 

[Certainkindoffool]

Hey neighbour!

Cheers!

 

[Certainkindoffool]

I agree, and I even bought nice tools last time I tried to mud. Didn’t help the final outcome.

For a long time I blamed it on the localized distortion my glasses caused. But, after getting laser eye surgery 3 year ago - I also tried the good tools route - I have to admit that it is something I just suck at.

 

[Thomas savage]

After drywalling my basement in a prior house I should have hired a professional. Thomas was too far away though!

I'd have to sack him as he's playing with his food here . Backhanded trowel work like that is not at all ergonomic either .

Still he's clean so will save money on laundry bills ha ha

 

[Certainkindoffool]

Any interest in posting a short video of yourself working at speed?

 

[zermak]

That's funny to watch actually... Imagine doing that for an entire brick walls room and ceiling Never done it myself, my dad does, a very handy man (he probably could build you a house from scratch and well we/he renewed ours just few years ago)

 

[Canuck57]

From my unprofessional eye it seems like he's going back & forth more than required or more than a true expert.

 

[Canuck57]

Thomas what music do you drywall to? I suppose head-banging music would be out

 

[Certainkindoffool]

Thomas what music do you drywall to? I suppose head-banging music would be out

As someone well accustomed to repetitively perfected zen-like activities, I find attitude and pace the most important factors in performance enhancing sound tracks.

 

[Astrozombie]

Obligatory

 

[Thomas savage]

Any interest in posting a short video of yourself working at speed?

No. Me working is PPV.

 

[Thomas savage]

Obligatory

Beautiful skills there ! Watch the flow !

 

[Certainkindoffool]

No. Me working is PPV.

I'm not going to ask about the wardrobe then.

 

[Canuck57]

mental image popping in my mind - gonna have nightmares now

 

[Certainkindoffool]

mental image popping in my mind - gonna have nightmares now

He's a professional. I'm sure everything will be smooth as an egg.

 

[Canuck57]

My parent's house (and the house I grew up in) was all plaster - built in 1954 - and had really nice cove ceilings - where the ceiling came down the wall where cove molding would normally be - and a beautiful pattern in the ceiling. I suppose that's a lost art today.