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My messiest taping job taught me to prep my mud better
I was on a house job last month and I skimped on mixing my mud for corners. It came out watery and dripped all over the place. I had to fix large parts of the wall, costing me a lot of time. Since then, I make sure to mix it thicker and wait a bit before I start taping. My lines now look clean and I get done sooner. It's a simple step but it really helped. I learned that rushing just makes more work later.
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garcia.tyler2d ago
That bit about rushing making more work is so true. My buddy Matt had the same thing happen on his kitchen reno. He mixed his joint compound way too thin, like soup, because he was in a hurry. When he put it in the ceiling corners, it just ran down the walls in these globby streaks. The tape started to sag and pull away before it even dried. He spent the whole next day scraping it off and redoing it with a proper mix.
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jones.nancy2d ago
My friend Sarah in Cincinnati mixed her mud way too runny last spring. Her ceiling tape sagged so bad she had to scrape off two whole walls.
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