Complete Drywall Installation Guide Part 9 Third Coat, Butt Joints

[Music] here we are on day three of the mud work so day one we did all of our tape joints day two we did our inside and inside corners and we took care of our butt joints day three now it's time to take care of all the horizontals so first of all we have to get rid of all these ridges that are left over from day two okay this is all I do you don't need to sand now we're ready to mud so we're gonna take our mud on our ten inch trout slap it on put an angle on it put pressure on the bottom so we're constantly forcing them up up don't do anything special around those plugins and switches just keep on filling all right now if you do it that way it's not going to end up all over the floor okay right over here but joint we're just cleaning this up right the top we want to be able to see our paper we don't want to use too much mud okay now we're gonna come back the other way and finish towards what's finished top and bottom pressure along the middle we're not just throwing a bunch of mud on the wall we're trying to fill from here to here and make it smooth fresh across the top and across the bottom very very important if you have a huge job like a basement to do and you start day three of taping with your horizontals you can come back near the end of the day and hit your butt joints again but don't do it until this mud is dried up okay give it a few hours to set up and get stiff because your last thing you wanna do is start coming down here and putting grooves in that finish coat that would be a no no all right on your third day of working in your basement if you want to do the rest your inside corners now you'll see here this mud is actually still wet you can see the dark line all right we don't want to be doing that one but the ceiling looks perfect so that's why you want to do your inside corners as as soon as you can get to it because sometimes they take an extra day to dry out especially in a basement you're below grade there's not as much place for the moisture to go because it's on a vapor barrier wall so the only place that the moisture can go is back into the room where a lot of these interior walls the moisture can go from the drywall in both directions so they tend to drive faster so we'll get up here it's a little bit of a cramped space but I want to be able to see what I'm doing again before we get started we'll just put the knife across make sure we don't have any ridges or bumps or chunks of mud dinner in our way all right working from the side of the knife we want to just put the mud up towards the ceiling and the reason we want to wait until it's dry is because we're using the surface here as our edge it's gonna guide us so now we're gonna come back with our knife and we're gonna go like this and you're gonna see a little bit of a ridge line here that happens back the other way and we're going to clean out a groove again just like we did the first time and then I'm gonna start right in my corner make this pretty I always take time in your corners and make them pretty here we go I'm gonna run this across starting to get a bit of a snowplow I'll come by and clean it up knowing I'm gonna finish towards what's finished Oh see that a little bit of a ridge there's cuz the mud isn't quite dry enough be real gentle with this okay so we did our 45 minute mud now it's hard doesn't have to be dry just hard and we're gonna finish it with our finish mud and this is the one that we got a little bit wetter than their other coat okay so we're just gonna put it on pretty liberal here we go right up to the top lay then give it a jiggle all right folks so it's the end of day 3 our horizontals are all drying up real nice so now we're ready to hit the butt joints before we walk out the door we're just gonna take our knife scratch down the side hit the bottom make sure all the junk is out of the way make sure your knife is nice and clean load it up all right now we've already filled from here you can see the ridge that's where we filled too right so what we wanted to now show from there even further all right put a nice healthy whack of mutton in that line okay that stretches the joint out then you go one more over the middle now this one's a little bit different because the last time we started from the outside with pressure work into the middle this time we're gonna start for the middle working the outside all right so again lots of pressure here we don't want to make the joint any thicker than it already is and now we're gonna go with the outside pressure we're basically working off that Ridge okay and then one more time a little further up and we just want to clean up down here because we don't wanna have a bunch of mud where we're baseboards are going again édouard pressure come at it from both directions get rid of all that extra mud now your butt joint is really filled and really stretched if you see junk in the mud get rid of it you don't want to have it there making grooves alright so by the end of your third day of doing mud you've got your taping you've done your inside corners you've done your butt joints you've done your horizontals you've done your outside corners your paper your metal your filler your finished coat hopefully if things have dried well you've done your inside corners on the other side and you've hit your screw holes two times maybe three you've had a chance to go around and find imperfections fill them up with tape repair anything that needs to be repaired and all that's left now is the finish code ah wow that's a lot of work if you're enjoying these videos subscribe to the channel hit the like button but most importantly comment on their videos by all means or a suggestion of video you'd like to see let us know we'd love to be in touch

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Length: 6min 38sec (398 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 22 2017