How to skim coat, apply drywall mud and fix walls. Easy!

hello this is Dustin with home mender and today I'm gonna show you all about skim coatings yes you can make your walls look better it's not hard it's not a science you just need to see how to do it and you can do it for yourself in five minutes you're gonna be a pro I've got a room here with multiple different textures and levels and layers and it's a great variety of wall gouges and such that you can learn how to repair walls I'm gonna show you how [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] we'll be using the green top today we're gonna get it mixed up first alright I got my metal pan and knife here with my three top inside now basically the idea of the skim coating is anything that's protruding from the surface of the wall hammer it in break it whatever and get it fun so you can see you can fill the hole so basically if it's a hole you fill it and if it's protruding you not get back or scrape it off so we're gonna go here we took some cabinets out you can see call phones and 50 years of paint and the nail that needs to be hammered in so you don't want to get any specs in here in your knife and if you do get specs on your on your knife you can put them over here this is my little trash pile I don't like this little end it's at the bottom I don't really use it and I know if I get chunks in it I can get my chunk out and put it right there in my little trash section so basically we're gonna fill everything and feather this out we want to hide this paint line here so we're gonna do a soft feather and I'm like my new backsplash is gonna cover some of this but I don't know how much it is gonna cover so I'm going to go ahead and do this [Music] [Music] you also gotta know when to leave it alone I mean get it the best you can do and then leave it you keep going through it it's just costing your time and you're really not gonna get it any better just go with it if there's big tracks you can always scrape them up and work it on the next coat now this is a second coat of a ugly wall you can see it's hitting pretty well but my second coat is now it's now going to feather out a little farther and kind of blend it a little better than the first coat here's just a hole down here when you fill in holes what you want to do is push all a little bit in there push the mud all in there use the wall-to-wall press firmly on both sides of the holes and you leave only what's inside the hole now I know all this is getting covered with new backsplash so I'm not gonna worry about that too much but I do have a paint couch here we just scrape it off do a light skim over it just to fill in the paint take everything else off I also ordered 5-inch backsplash instead of four to come up one inch taller than my existing paint line now here we have a crazy big paint line it looks like there's a good eighth of an inch difference from this wall to this wall the idea is we need to feather it out at least the distance of the knife or more so we can hide this ridiculous eighth of an inch difference so first things first you scrape everything off [Music] you always get the loose texture off now this one here is just a light paint difference you can barely feel anything so I'm gonna need just a really light coat I'm just taking a little bit and I'm gonna put it on and I'm gonna take it all back off the basic plan is just gonna hide that paint line where the cabinet was sitting and we've got fifty years of paint here there's a there's a height difference now with this one over here with the big one it's gonna take a little bit more but you're still gonna do it the same way filling in the gap now because this side is higher I'm gonna put all the pressure on this left side and kind of flow and feather the right side takes all of it off to the green part and now the feather [Music] [Music] we're gonna go on one direction if you do get to a place it right you can go ahead and go horizontal this way but you float it out here float it out here and then kind of float it into itself okay I've got countertop going here so I don't need to worry about any of that what if it's a corner well unless you have one of those fancy corner tools you're gonna have to do one at a time let's let this fancy pan this for basically if you can put you some mud right there on your pan get it up on just the side then you can lay it into the corner and run a nice tight I wasn't very nice to tell you we'd do another one run it into the corner and feather it out [Music] just like that however we need to let this dry in order to do the other corner it's green top we're not gonna have time for that today but you get the idea if there's any tracks in this one you can scrape it and then remod your other corner so I'm pressing this left side tight to the wall and this sides kind of floating the corner to create I want to describe it oh no it's like a feather giant gallon and you do it like that the only thing that's left inside the gouge is the mud what if it's in a bathroom it's the same thing you do the little spray get all that sauce flaky stuff here we go use your side of your pan trick and lay it right into the corner [Music] so that's it just a few tips and tricks on how to be a better skin coder I mean it's not really a science you just need somebody to show you how to do it so give it a shot make your walls look better and when you're done make sure you clean your mud pan out you don't want to be one of the guys who doesn't clean the pan out so for the home vendor I'm Dustin I hope you learned something today and if you did don't forget to click subscribe thanks for watching [Music]

Channel: Home Mender Inc

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Id: x4HkOpvA7kY

Length: 8min 6sec (486 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 13 2019