Great video and those TOOLS! Old retired restoration specialist, skimmed miles walls and ceilings with a set of Marshalltown wood-handled knives, up to 24". What you have today is a big upgrade. Awesome work, thanks for putting out here. You guys are total pros.
I have been using a 24-inch stroke for 32 years now I use it for everything concrete drywall Plastering everything the only thing I had to keep with me at the time is a spray bottle of water in case certain areas get too hard but this one you showed me a lot easier and faster keep up the good work young man
Man, I appreciate you guys doing this video. I bought a house that turned out to be a money pit. I have to do the work myself and after replacing exterior walls on over half the house and doing the sheet rock which I had planned on removing all but now I'm going to save the ceiling and hopefully it comes out as yours did. Buying a house to redo is a little harder than I thought even being in construction but its getting easier with lessons learned
I just found this video, this was absolutely a great video, i'm going to buy me a set of those knives, got to skim ceiling of a remodel job, Thank you very much for making this and sharing you skills and knowledge, if I was closer to you i would hire you in a second!
I also use the same method, but much more carefully apply the putty to the ceiling and walls with a roller, then I have almost no waste when smoothing.
Good video. Try to follow joists as you wipe the ceiling instead of cross wiping. Since most ceilings have hollow spots between joists and also that takes care of all the bad butt joints.
It was like the cliff hanger in a movie. I kept waiting and waiting, thinking with each close pass, he has to get it this time. Man my OCD was kicking in also until he finally got them. Man, what a relief. LOL
I’ve never rolled the mud, always used a spray gun but I might try a roller too just see how good it works. Knocking it down with my knife’s the same but your way might be faster. I’ll try it atleast once!
Nice 24" is good, but try that with ceilings that aren't level with lots of dips. You'll have to spot treat the dips with thick mud otherwise you end up with voids while skimming.
Thanks for your comment, we deal with old homes that have unleveled framing all the times, sometimes we have to pre-fill those "valley"s before skimming, but the skimming blade makes it easier to manipulate how much mud you take off or leave on at certain spots
Great video man! I tried doing this before with a columbia skimmer. Only problem was getting the mud on the ceiling. What kind of roller do you recommend?
Also I've seen on another comment you offered up adding dish soap to the mud. I'm a beginner but fairly decent at walls, ceilings I haven't done. I've heard of the dish soap trick for bubbles.... What soap do you use? Does it matter? And how much? Really curious to try. Thanks for all the advice as I valve all those with much more experience than I.
Thanks! We typically use sheetrock 90 as our base coat on bare concrete and add a tiny bit of glue to make sure it sticks really good but we've done it before with simply all purpose mud with some water and it worked great!
Hello, I appreciate your tutorial. I wish that you were in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY; I would hire you today for a small ceiling skim coat. You're not planning to take a trip to New York are you? What skim coat mud do you recommend. Perhaps they're the same in the states? Regards, David
I'd like to try it . I do almost as fast with my trowel. You need to wet your mud for the roller which adds water and therefore little bubbles and a step . Your getting plaster on the walls too. So that needs addressed if the walls are not supposed to be touched.
Thank you for your comment, there is extremely minimal mud on the walls, however, in this particular case, the walls are being painted afterward. You're right, we thin down the mud with 1 sponge of water and some dish soap. We do 2 skimcoats and it comes out perfect everytime Thanks for your input!
You can greatly reduce bubbles by mixing mud a little slower. Otherwise you’ll whip air into the mud and as you know, bubbles can be a pain to deal with
@@patchdudes how do you deal with incomplete tape joints that become obvious after popcorn is scraped off ? Your not using that wide custom strike for that are you ?
We use Ultralight weight mud, but you can use any pre-mixed all-purpose mud and add 1-2 sponges worth of water or until it reaches a smooth yogurt-like consistancy.
anyone who comments "you're leaving too many lines" doesn't understand the process ...... the lines get smaller and smaller as more and more mud is skimmed off ...... and as the mud firms up a bit
That’s such an art to perfect, im sure anyone feels can do this and sure they can however u really learn your mistakes when that mud dries and your sanding your ass off I’m diy all day long but this one I’ll leave to the professionals lol
Lol thats why we invested in our Festool and Mirka dustless sanders, makes life so much better! also leaving your skim coats super tight leaves very little to sand
please wear a mic… I can hear the cameraman wheezing into the camera’s microphone. Really hard to focus on what you’re doing when his breathing and mouth noises are as loud as you are
haha yeah i hate yellow ceilings too... nothing worst than a house thats been smoked in! We tint it yellow on the first coat so we can tell where we didnt skim 2nd coat or where we sanded too much
@@abdulqadar9971 We use CGC Ultra lightweight drywall joint compound, rolled on with a regular 30mm paint roller, skimmed with 24'' Skimming Blade by Level5 here is the link: level5tools.com/?ref=patchdudes
