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[@Dave-nm3xc]

I'm a full-time drywall finisher with 20+ years experience, and I find myself learning a few things from your videos. Thanks for sharing your tips.

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44 years
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[@brucegrover84]

25 years of free handing with a 12 inch knife and I wish we had TH-cam when I first started because I have never used a bigger knife I wish now I would have. I hate finishing now so I try to sub it out but great tricks for.the new guy starting out

[@jeffhopper3526]

your easy to follow. I needed to sharpen my skills for patches in 10 year old house that plumbers had to cut open orange peel textured walls under the slab leak feed. The last thing I want is for the owner to "see" the patches. thanks

[@justinray9895]

Hey that first guy he showed named Joe... Lol. Man I'm sorry but that was HILARIOUS 😂. anybody who muds a butt joint with a 6 has no clue at all what they are doing. 1st year apprentice even know better than that. You use a 10-12" knife. I use a 10 just because it feels more comfy but a lot of REAL PROFESSIONALS use a 12. I have bad carpal tunnel so it's hard for me to get the right pressure with a 12. I'm 33.. been finishing almost 16 years now. Ik every trick of the trade. Learned from my pop whose almost 70 and still at it. Been finishing almost 50 years. Started when it was only plaster. I hate to call someone out but that Joe guy has absolutely NO CLUE what he is doing at all!! I'm a proud union member by the way. Local 47 Indianapolis Indiana!!😉. #UNIONSTRONG💪

[@MegaDavyk]

I have had one of those blades for about a year and I just love it for butt joints, it really is a game changer.

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Thank you for these videos. I often need reminders of how to do certain things and also love learning new (often better) ways to do things from you. Keep up the great work.

[@ThatKiltedGuyDIY]

I'm so glad!

[@wonderpoppy101]

Great video! There’s one thing you had in the original video that I missed in this one: you talked about it being hard and possibly take a long time to learn how to do it right. 😅 (It may be discouraging to some but for me it just takes the pressure off and helps temper my expectations.) I haven’t attempted it yet but will be soon on a two foot racing stripe the electricians took out of the middle of the wall running the length of me kitchen… Thank you so much for doing these videos!!

[@Mile_zer0]

Maaaaaan Ive been trying to sand drywall repairs “flat” this whole time, never knew you leave a little hump and go significantly wider than the repair.

[@michaelmolter8828]

I really live the combo of a rookery to apply mud and a skim blade. I’m doing a house for my wife and I and she can stay ahead of me with a roller applying while I feather with a knife and clean up with a large skim blade.

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[@doncc6080]

Yes just saw a Level 5 video on this. He put the mud on with a paint roller.
Same process as you with the skimming knife.

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I saw that too

[@stashagarcia101]

Thank you Mary, that was a wonderful tutorial. I learned lots

[@AlexHuyghe]

What a great channel, clear and to the point. I was just wondering if feathering the edges left and right is still needed if you use a skim blade. Could you tell me what your experience is with that?

[@ThatKiltedGuyDIY]

Still needed

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[@ThatKiltedGuyDIY]

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[@michaelkistner6286]

Nice! Have you tried using a skimmer on your flats? I find it a lot easier on the wrist than a traditional knife.

[@ThatKiltedGuyDIY]

Haven’t tried that but a knife doesn’t bother me, yet

[@whiskyjames4200]

If the sheetrock wasn't done properly, then, the job gets harder. I've seen some terrible hanging sheetrock. Great tips!

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Awesome video Guy!

[@ThatKiltedGuyDIY]

Thanks Danny!

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Love your videos man thank you

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Fantastic video.

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Thank you very much!

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Your the man guy. Thank you

[@ThatKiltedGuyDIY]

Glad to help

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Love that tool I will be looking from 1
One question I do have sometimes when I'm mudding I have little bubbles in the mud a hole Is group of them in little section. I have tried to mix the mud More

[@ThatKiltedGuyDIY]

I’ve never been able to eliminate bubbles and mud and don’t think you can, despite what some may say. Soap doesn’t solve it, etc. Sometime you can come back in a minute or two and hit it and reduce the bubbles but there’s not much you can do to eliminate them. There is a product I want to test so there might be one that helps reduce them, but I haven’t tried it yet.

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Thank you

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Nopox works great

[@nomadsland5078]

Good tips for beginners I guess ... if you can find your specialty tools ... I've seen guys over the years do all sorts of crazy stuff... using a big taper is a common trick ... when I walk up 2 a butt joint I IMMEDIATELY test with my 10 inch knife (bed coat ) or my 14 (skim coat) to see how bad it is ... thus eliminating the step of walking around a job an extra time ... and I ALLWAYS finish butt's and tapers TOGETHER ... at same time ... avoids the missed areas like in the butt joint above the one u are working on ....
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[@jerritox]

My Master Obi Wan !! What mud all propose , plus 3 , etc …..I can use on the first coat dry very fast for make the same day the second coat!! Thank you my master .. May the force be with you !! Or son tips for mix any mud with something else for dry very fast the 1 coat !!

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[@simonmonty7171]

Quick question.. you do kention going wider after the first coat but how wide is that and how do you do it? Even bigger knife? Lol

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[@badchips10]

It would be very nice if you do another video of how you get tide of the ridges left by the skimming blade. I get the ridges and have to use a 4 or 6 inch knife to cover them. You probably have a better method.

[@RalphSampson...]

Can you not just wait until it dries then, sand out the ridges?

[@ThatKiltedGuyDIY]

Not if the ridge is because your knife went too deep. I’ve explained this another videos and I will try and find a link to it somewhere.

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I will try to write an article and put it on my website and give you a link to it. Or you could just check my website and the blog articles now and then and see if I get it loaded soon.

[@chadlane5389]

Do butt joints on a ceiling need to be done any differently than a wall?

[@ThatKiltedGuyDIY]

Not really

[@FJB2020]

What about a butt board? They are pretty easy to make (sure beats buying them at 10x the cost), but I hear great thing about them.

[@user-xm1wt8xi9r]

I run mine mine three wide with a 12" knife

[@edwardjlombardijr4353]

NICE!

[@ThatKiltedGuyDIY]

Thanks!

[@jfarhat8607]

Does the hump of a butt joint need to become flat...i tried with a similar skimming blade and the hump is still present. Thx

[@ThatKiltedGuyDIY]

No. A hump could never be flat it can only appear to be

[@MartyMasterjohn]

Can you buy the level 5 knife at the big box stores?

[@ThatKiltedGuyDIY]

No

[@rygaldr421]

what size knife do you use to addd the mud for your first coat ?

[@ThatKiltedGuyDIY]

14"

[@Enpsychclopedia]

How do you get your mud so smooth

[@ThatKiltedGuyDIY]

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[@ktrain6724]

Can you use all purpose mud for butt joints?

[@ThatKiltedGuyDIY]

Yes

[@leroychavez9409]

i still have little hump in the center of the butt joint, after 3 coats. it still feels a little hump.

[@ThatKiltedGuyDIY]

Butts are NEVER actually flat unless they started out a little recessed.
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[@krisbaringer4521]

Just some dumb questions from an old pipefitter. Basement flooded, about an inch and half. I removed everything including all baseboard, door trim and drywall up to 10inches all around. Now I can put the drywall back and it will be a butt joint I'm taking all the way around, in my limited opinion i'm about to dick that up to no end. I'm sure I can replace the drywall but finishing all I can see is a clear line at 10" all the way around the basement when I'm done, the shadow as you spoke off. Why is the tape needed? This is what causes the hump in the first place, right. Can't I just pack it, put a nice top coat on and sand, both pieces start off at the same distance from the studd. Just wondering, or is there something better like the mess tape that is less pronounced than the paper if it's totally necessary to tape the joint. Peace, Kris

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The least noticeable is fibafuse which you can find at big box stores or in a link in my description

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[@blazz1ncurds]

You used the skim blade, but I still saw the tape after the 3rd coat. Will that not show up in the finished product?

[@ThatKiltedGuyDIY]

Wet mud is translucent. It doesn’t have to disappear. And that wasn’t 3 coats. It was one on the first butt and 2 on the 2nd butt.

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@@ThatKiltedGuyDIY So the butt joint you ran the 24 inch skim blade on you will do another pass over it and then its done?

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