Friday, October 31, 2014

Making the walls smooth

With drywall hung on the living room walls, it’s time to prepare them for texture. Prepping the drywall for texture is time consuming! Seems like every time we fix one area we find more (or make more) that need to be fixed. The sanding, re-coating with joint compound, wait 24 hours, repeat cycle makes this one of the most tedious parts of the remodel.

Our skill at taping the joints leaves something to be desired so that isn’t helping. We’re doing something wrong because we’re getting a lot of bubbles in the tape. [edit: poor technique it turns out].

After a few days of this we decide it’s good enough to move on.