HOW TO Coat a DRYWALL seam / Easy Sanding
How to coat drywall seams and feather the edges so that it sands easy and has a nice finish. Feathering can be a challenge for Home Owners or DIYers without much experience. Hope this helps you learn how to do this like professionals. Here is a link to prograde tools for a very fair cost.
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How to Coat a Drywall Seam - Easy Sanding
Okay, so today I'm going to put on the first coat. I'm going to use an eight-inch knife. I've used mesh tape and Durabond for my first coat. I'm going to show you how to do a wall seam, how to feather it, and how to make sure it's a nice first coat with finished mud. First, I'm going to scrape this. I'm just going to make sure that all of the little irregularities are off of it, and that's all I really need to do.
I've got Plus Three, which is a nice finished coat, a topping coat. It sands nicely and easily. Then, I'm going to put about that much mud on my eight-inch knife. Now, you can spread it however you want. I know sometimes with DIYers, it's a little bit easier to do this and just kind of spread it on the wall that way, making sure you cover that recess. I'm going to wipe all that off to show you a different way to do that.
Okay, so that's all really off of there. I've got a couple of bumps I wanted to scrape off a little bit more, but I usually put my mud like this and I put it here. Then I have a nice even stretch there, so that it's spread out evenly. I don't put too much pressure so that I don't drip a whole lot of mud underneath, but it gives a nice straight coat. So, I just have to put a little pressure on the top part of my knife like this, as you might see there in the angle.
Okay, and then I just move it along there along the top edge. I just want to get that ridge off of there and want to make sure that we keep it ridge-free at the bottom. I do the same, except I reverse it. See? The bottom is... and I notice the angle of the knife. I keep a nice amount of pressure on it and I just move it along, and there you go.
So now, I don't want to take all this mud off. I want to leave a nice coat, so I'm going to move along, clean up any edge that's there, and just kind of... you notice I have it pretty flat to the wall, not completely, and that's all I'm going to do on that seam. That should dry now, and then I can put a nice ten-inch coat on it.
Now, let's take a look at another one just so you can see how this works. We're going to bring you over to this one right here. Okay, and again, I'm going to put my mud on my knife, and I'm just going to do that. I'm going to work away from the electric box. So, remember again, here we go. I'm going to feather and I'm going to feather the bottom, and then I'm going to just take one pass, pretty light. I'm not putting a lot of pressure on it, just enough pressure to take the edges away, and that's all you really need to do.
So now, let's do this one and see how that works. Okay, so again, I'm just going to spread the mud easy like that. Okay, I'm going to feather, go to the bottom, and here I'm going to work away from this window sill, just like I did with the electric surface, and then I'm going to bring it in like that, and there you go. That's all I'm going to do.
So now we can move over to these, and we can watch it again. Scrape it, work away from the window sill, feather it, gather it, and I want that tool mark to be a little bit smaller, so I'm just going to do that. So let's do this one, and I'm going to spread the mud like maybe you would have to spread it. I'm just going to do this, do this.
Okay, so now I'm going to feather it on both sides, and there you go. That's all it really takes. Now I have a couple more over here that I'd like to do for you. These are smaller, there's a smaller one. Scrape it, okay, that's good. I avoid scratches. Let's do this one. This is a small one, so just there you go. But we still want to get it done, both sides, and that's good. There you go.
Now, let's do a couple of these, and this one's going to be a little more difficult, the one with the light box in it. Of course, this one again, scraping, clean it off. Feather both sides, and that's good. There's no scratches, no ridges, so we're really good with that.
And now I want to show you this. This can be a little challenging. It's got a light box here, so we're going to clean that off really nicely. Make sure the power is off to this if you can. You don't want to touch that with the metal with your metal blade. So again, I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this both sides, go both ways, and I'm going to float it over that box just like that.
Okay, so we're just going to pay a little attention on how we do this top part because this can be challenging. So normally, I like to bring the top of the knife, and this is going to take a little more time. See how I bring the bottom of the knife to the top of the box, and I just kind of put a little bit of... I lighten up my pressure on it, and there you go. So, it's a little challenging, but that's ready to dry now and put our second coat on it.
And that does it for all of the wall seams in this room. So, hopefully, you learned something, and I appreciate you watching. If you really appreciated what we did here, hit our subscribe button and hit our like button, and give me a comment. Maybe you have a question about something or you'd like something clarified. Please do that too. But thanks for watching. This is Dennis with Home Rehab Pros.