HOW TO COAT BUTT JOINTS (hawk and trowel 4)

hello and welcome back to Vancouver carpenter today I'm gonna teach you how to code a butt joint with the hot control and this is the abridged version just kind of dumbed down so we're just gonna go one trowel with on each side so I have here a 12 inch trowel I've got some all-purpose mud mixed up you can see it's fairly thick so what I'm going to do is I'm gonna get it right smack in the middle of the blade like so on this bottom edge I'm gonna start right down here just sort of tapes right there and right on the outside of the tape I'm just gonna nice even pressure push it up and I'd say my tilt is around 45 degrees and it kind of tilts up as I go who left this corner beat here I'm gonna grab a little bit more because I messed myself up there so you can see I'm probably a bit less than 2 feet wide go down from the top I collected a little more mud there grab a bit more down from the top so it's pretty straightforward we're just one trial width on each side it's relatively evenly spread however I can see my tape quite a bit right through right here I'm actually gonna add just a little bit more mud so it comes up just how I want it now we get into the passes so first things first feather your edges and as quickly as possible to because the edges start to dry out and if you don't feather them right away then they get kind of high so I'm pushing down really hard on the side of my blade getting that edge nice and feathered this side right from the top this side right from the top now I can rest easy because those edges are feathered so the next thing is I'm gonna start kind of pushing the mud into the center a little bit by doing some finish passes so the first one is on this side and I'm just going to go up damn crumbs the next one is on this side I'm just gonna go up same thing from up here this side down this side down now I don't like to leave it like this because what I've done is I've left a lift off in the center which is okay you can send it down to flat but how I actually like to do these is now one more pass up the center one more pass down the center I'd left one lift off right here I've left a nice broad flat surface down the middle and most of the mud where the shrinkage occurs on this side and this side is left there so that's your first coat so this is now fully dry a chance to dry over the weekend and next thing you want to do before skimming it out is just scrape down any high spots or sand it depending on which one you want to do in this case it's all pretty smooth and flat and I could scrape it with my knife which isn't gonna actually do the best job flattening it out so here's a little tip what you can do with your trowel is you can actually pull it across like that and that flattens it out really nicely if you have a lift off now that's otherwise looking pretty good except for a couple little crumbs at the top and now it's just wash rinse repeat so start coating it again and just go a couple inches wider than the original joint okay I'm going to take a little bit of this excess off because I need for the top here right up into the top close as I can get without wrecking the joint above it okay now it's time to feather these joints again pressing the scroll over bending it and now with this coat I'm not trying to leave a buildup anywhere what I want is like a thin uniform coat over the whole thing about 1/32 of an inch thick so I'm not scraping it so tight that I'm pulling everything off and compressing them up what I'm doing is just gently gliding my trowel down the wall and it should be pretty smooth at this point if your first coat was nice the bottom now what i'm doing here is my first one where i feather i press hard against the wall and then on all the successive coats going over this way i've actually tilted it very slightly the other way so i'm not digging in this edge as I'm pulling up and now that is a nice and finished Buck joint so all this needs no there's a light sand and it's ready for paint so thanks for watching Vancouver carpenter this has been how to finish a butt joint with a Hakan trowel I hope you learned something thanks for watching and be sure to check out the next video how to finish corner beads with a hawk control

Channel: Vancouver Carpenter

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Keywords: drywall, mud, tape, joint, how to, butt joint, coat, mudding, taping and mudding, joint compound, spackle, tutorial, corner, inside, outside, carpentry, construction, how to drywall, how to mud, trowel, knife, hawk, hock

Id: V7V8RL4FvCg

Length: 5min 44sec (344 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 02 2018