35 YR Drywall Pro Reacts to IvyTech Taping Video with 18 Million Views. WHY???

hey in today's video i'm going to do something totally different for my channel i'm going to do a reaction video to another drywall video this is a video that has over 8 million views and i'm just gonna give you my opinion on it and share some pointers about it right after this [Music] [Applause] hey thanks for stopping by my channel here at that celtic guy videos i hope you'll become a subscriber and help me hit that hundred thousand subscriber mark by june june 10th and you can guess what day that might be well it's my birthday i'll be fifth i'll be 60 years old on that date but today what we're going to do is i'm going to do a reaction video to another youtube video out there that has been really popular for some reason and it's a drywall video where they show how to tape and finish okay and this video has over 18 million views it's just gone crazy for some reason and so i'm gonna go through and show you my reaction to the video now let me point out that my intention of doing these videos is not to put anyone down to criticize anyone make anyone feel bad or anything like that because even if you do any things i point out we all got to start somewhere i just happened to have been doing it since 50 years ago when i was 8 years old i've got over 35 years of actual hands-on experience doing drywall especially drywall repairs for the past 17 years so i'm just going to give you my insight on what he does i'll give you some pointers on how i would do it differently and why and i'll point out anything that i think is good or bad and we'll just talk about it and go from there so i'm putting these videos out to help you understand what you're seeing in some of the other videos and there are some videos out there that i think are terrible and they're misleading and i'm gonna point that out on some of these videos because i don't want you guys getting misled and doing it the wrong way so let's start that video now hello this is ryan voorhees instructor with the construction technology department at ivy tech community college and today i'm going to demonstrate the proper methods for taping and finishing a standard tapered drywall joint for example we're going to use a standard tapered drywall joint okay first thing i want to do is point out i find this really odd that this is an ivy tech school and they're they appear to be in the basement with a really lousy setup for a school sure he's gonna be able to demonstrate it and i also wonder why you know this does not look like a school stairway so why are they doing this in the basement that's that's the first odd thing about this i'm going to go through some of the tools that we'll use to complete this process the first tool that we plan on using is a six inch taping knife and this this knife is used to apply mud and remove that mud from the tape in the first step okay that's a good choice right there except that's an odd shape for six inch knife most drywallers uh out there that i've seen not not to say that all of them use a knife that looks more like this and there's a reason for it it has a really good feel to it and the shape is conducive to taping and and finishing corners inside corners and a lot more but that knife would work the second knife we're going to use is an 8 inch finishing knife all of these knives are very stiff and sharp to allow for a very clean edge that's a good knife and the final knife that we use is a 12 inch finishing knife again a very stiff strong sharp knife and it's another good notice i'm holding a drywall pan this is to hold my mud as i'm working through the process and notice that that is a tig or helioarc i think they call it welded pan meaning those corners are welded smooth there's no seam so that's actually a top quality pan if you're going to get one don't get the one with a folded over seam and avoid the plastic unless you're just really on a tight budget yes it has sharp edges for cleaning off my knife in addition as far as tools are concerned when we're done we're ready to sand we will use either a sponge to wet sand that's iffy i'll explain more drywall sanding pole with an open face paper to dry sand now that's the most common method that we sand with is a sanding pole although a lot of guys these days are going to the radius sander and the radius sander is much better for you guys that type of sander right there will flip over really easy and mar your wall plus i've gone away from using the open mesh as he calls it uh sandpaper because because of the design it's it's in lines that go up and down and straight across so when you're sanding it tends to groove little lines everywhere where sandpaper has thousands of little granules you get a smoother finish so that method there does work but it will show more sanding scratches i'm going to start off with step number one and step number one is to apply a five inch wide layer of mud to the joint fairly thick about an eighth of an inch thick and then i'm going to apply standard paper drywall tape to that joint this paper tape is precreased so if i was doing an inside corner i could crease this by hand and apply it to the joint but we're doing a flat joint so i'm not going to crease this tape now with paper tape i have two options i can apply this take directly to the compound or i can pre-wet the tape in a bucket of water and smooth it out and apply it i'm going for this demonstration i'm going to apply this tape wet okay and i've seen this mentioned on a video or two and it's pretty odd i've never seen a drywaller do this and it's because it's not really necessary now i think the reason that some people do it is because by wetting the tape you kind of pre-stretch it when you embed the dry tape into the wet joint compound it absorbs moisture and if you let it sit too long and you go to wipe it down you can get wrinkles in it other than that there's no real benefit and it's a huge hassle to try and wet it and deal with it that way it works a lot better dry but you can do it either way but you'll be fine just fine doing it dry so to start off i have my joint all the drywall is done and ready i have an empty pan and a six inch taping knife this is a stiff knife very sharp so i have pre-mixed drywall compound here you can also mix your own compound but i chose to use pre-mixed for simplicity i'm going to load my pan up with mud keeping a clean knife as i go as you can see i have about oh maybe a cup of nice compound here this compound is about the consistency of peanut butter which is about what i want for taping okay first of all he didn't really mention what type of joint compound there's dozens of them out there there's regular all-purpose lightweight super lightweight topping and so on what you want to use for taping is the regular weight all-purpose and the reason is it has more adhesive in it and it's actually a little stronger than the lightweight mud you don't want to use light weight and the other thing is you want to mix that mud up before you get it out of the bucket it tends to kind of settle and break up in the bucket if you don't mix it it will work a lot harder feels a lot worse i've got videos on how to do that a cheap way would be to throw your mud in the pan if you're just doing a little bit and use an egg beater in a drill i've showed you that how to mix hot mud that way you could do it that way but if you're going to do very much get yourself a heavy duty drill a lightweight one will burn up a cordless one will burn up and a mixing paddle you can get one as cheap as this or the next step up would be this one but my favorite is this four bladed one like this because it mixes faster and it doesn't shake the bucket the two bladed ones tend to shake the heck out of the bucket the four blade won't it does cost a lot more each step up though by mixing it up you're going to end up with a nice creamy smooth mixture that works a lot better and if you use the regular weight all purpose it's usually good to go right out of the bucket after you've mixed it with no water added if it feels too thick and is just really fighting you you can add a little bit of water but don't over thin it or it's just gonna drip all over and it won't adhere as well and i keep it all on one side of my pan so i have a clean side so i can always keep a clean knife so i'm going to leave my knife here and get my compound out of the way i don't really worry about that keeping it to one for this step i'm just going to dig into my compound and i have a knife full of compound and i want to apply about five inches my knife is six inches so if i applied it straight on i would have two wide so i'm going to choose to apply my mud more vertically across that joint so i can keep the mud right in the center of that joint okay now this the way he's spreading it here will certainly work and if that's what works for you go ahead but if you're gonna do very much of this there's a lot faster way to do it i show that in some of my videos like my how to tape drywall video this tells me that if they hired this guy as an instructor they they appear to me to have hired a novice that has some basic skills and he does it right but if you're going to be an instructor you really ought to be a journeyman drywaller the way he's doing it here like i say it'll work but this shows me that he's probably a novice and again i'm applying this mud fairly thick pretty much guaranteed i'm going to take and actually strike that mud off with very little pressure i'm just trying to spread it out evenly now the other way you can control how much you wipe off that he's not explaining is the more you lean your knife over closer to the wall and you push a little harder you'll actually take off less mud the more you stand it up the more you'll take off that's the better way to control it because you'll get a nice smooth bed of mud there instead across this joint then add the areas where you're not quite five inches i have a few low spots here it doesn't really have to go five inches wide but you do want to put plenty of mud on the biggest stage my work here is not mine enough mud on it and only cut off what i need if i allow mud to stay on the knife it will dry and it will create issues later on okay that point is basically true you don't want to let the mud dry on the other parts of the blade and not in any thickness if it's a thin layer it ain't going to get you but when you let chunks start setting up a little bit they'll get back into your mud called scratches and issues so this is adequate for this particular joint here so at this point i'm ready to get my tape so i'm going to take my tape hold it at one end of my joint and estimate the length of that tape and just take my fingers and tear this tape like so now again i can apply this dry straight to the joint but i choose to apply it wet especially in a dry atmosphere it helps that tape to adhere to the compound much better so i take that tape wet it and wring it out and 35 years i've never had a problem with adhesion if you do it so i'm going to center this tape on the joint and give just enough enough pressure to get it to stick i'm not going to push it in there with my fingers this point i take a clean knife and i'm going to hold one into this tape because if i was just to start i'd pull the tape off the wall so holding one end and always starting at the center apply very firm pressure at about a 45 degree angle and embed that tape into the compound now that it's stuck i don't have to hold the other side so i'm going to start in the middle 45 degree angle and pull that knife across to embed the tape and take my excess back to the pan so the tape's stuck i'm going to do this one more time from the center always we work from the center because if we started on one end we could create a bubble that gets stuck in the center so we want to start in the center and work away to eliminate opportunities for bubbles it's more like a wrinkle in the tape than a bubble but and there we have a properly embedded first layer of mud with tape and at this point we will let this mud and tape dry overnight okay i'm gonna show you how i would do this taping and how i would teach it i'm gonna do it real quickly i'm not gonna go over all the mud and everything this is regular all-purpose yes it is about that peanut butter thickness slightly thinned down nice and creamy and we have our paper joint tape so instead of the method of doing this which like i say if that's all you can do that's fine it'll work but if you want to get faster at this learn to get a decent load on here you put your knife on the wall at an angle and then as you go up the wall you lean it over so i'm going to show you how i do that fast and then a little bit slower so we just do it like that and then just come back over and got a lump right there you lay your knife down and you can push fairly hard and it just leaves a nice flat even bead you don't have to do all that striking it off and everything that that's the novice amateur way so again get a nice coat of mud on here put it on here and just start leaning it over as you go up and then come back and lay your knife down pretty good because if you stand it up very much you just wipe it all off so lay it down to where your knuckles almost drag in the mud push come down and there you go that little scratch that wouldn't really even matter too much but i'm gonna go ahead just to make sure it didn't get too dry there then just put your dry paper tape into the mud you get to the end you cut it off wipe from the middle and like i say you don't really have to hold it unless it's really short but you can if it starts moving and i usually just hold it like that the corner of my pan and if you want to check your work to see if you're doing it right try it peel it up if you see a decent amount of mud like that you see how it's kind of got those wavy lines in it on both sides that's a decent amount now if i wipe it too firmly i've used too thin as a mud and then i do this you peel it up and there's barely any of those lines on here you can see i wiped out most of the mud that's not going to stick real well there you go that's a simple version otherwise you know he ends up with a good result here there's just a lot of pointers that could have been given and i still don't get why it's got 18 million views it's one of them youtube algorithm things so let's drive mine to 18 million and we'll see what happens now i think i'm going to go ahead and do a reaction video to his follow-up series they do show you how to code it and all and i'll tell you again the pros the cons and the pointers along the way so if you like this kind of stuff be sure and hit that subscribe button i really appreciate it youtube will show my videos more the more people that subscribe plus you'll get me to that hundred thousand subscriber mark faster as of today we're at like 65 000 and give us a thumbs up comment that helps you to show our videos more and other than that hang around wait and i'll put out another video and i'll see you on that next video so take care everybody i'll see you then do [Music] you

Channel: That Kilted Guy DIY Home Improvement

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Length: 19min 20sec (1160 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 27 2021