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Secret Drywall Finishing Tip
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Feb 27, 2025
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how the heck with it we're going to go
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live oh hi I'm Tim Carter and we're
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going to do some drywall tips today at
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things that will teach you how to get
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Pro results now look if you're a pro
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watching this video stop stop don't even
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think about making any comments all
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right uh we already know you guys are
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great this video is primarily made for
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rookies all right and homeowners that's
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who I'm going after you guys you already
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know what to do all right first of all
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always wear white got it all right
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because you're going to get the mud all
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over you and if you wear dark clothes
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you're going to look like a slob all
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right so that's the first tip all right
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wear away now here's the here's a really
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good
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one let's say you think you've gotten it
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this far your drywall and you're
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thinking wow you know it really looks
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good it really looks great I'm ready to
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paint well I don't think so what I would
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do is get a flashlight uh this happens
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to be a really bright LED one and here's
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the
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trick so notice this if I put this light
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at a 90Ā° angle where the light's just
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hitting just like that it looks great
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it's everything looks fine like wow
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that's paint we're ready to go no no no
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look at this now watch what happens when
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I take this light and bring it down here
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at a low angle so it's washing the wall
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look at all these defects look at how
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messed up it is it's really bad you can
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see a line up here
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so you wash the wall with the last like
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just at a low angle and it's going to
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show you all of the defects simple as
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that now let me show you how to fix them
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all
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right what I like to
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do you're going to have to mix your mud
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up a you're going to have to get the mud
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creamy like it's you know like it's uh
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warm cake icing this is a brand new
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bucket of plus three I added about 4 oz
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of water maybe three Oz and I mixed the
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upper inch and a half and it's nice and
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creamy look at this you know it just
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kind of comes off like that very
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creamy all right put it in your
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pan you may use a hawk most homeowners
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want to use a pan I like to use a 10-in
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knife this is a stainless steel one I've
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had it for 35 years works pretty good
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and so all I'm going to do I know where
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those defects are that one defect was
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right there all right the first thing to
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do with your knife is to very
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gently kind of scrape the wall cuz what
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you want to do is you're trying to get
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off any tiny little nibs little dried
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particles of drywall because if those
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get in the mud they're going to make
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lines and you're you're going to have to
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fix those so watch
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this I just take a little bit of mud
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here I happen to know that that one
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defect is right there and I'll put it
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on and I'm just applying a really good
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pressure and you can see I I know you
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probably can't see it but I filled that
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defect
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in filled that defect in really well
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here was that if you remember there was
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a line right here there was a big line
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so you can fix it same
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thing I'm just running the knife
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over and I've just made that line
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disappear that line is now gone all
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right so it's simple things like that
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that's all you got to do here's what
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we're going to do and I'm going to do a
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separate live of this I'm going tomorrow
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we're going to start to skim coat these
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walls with a 24 in skimming blade it's
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kind of newer technology was not really
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around 30 years ago to speak of it
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really makes the walls look great and
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here's why let me show you one other
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thing this is why you need to skim coat
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the walls so once again watch this
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the wall looks pretty good right here
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you're going to think well gosh Tim it
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looks you know smooth here the drywall
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paper looks smooth but watch this come
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over here and look at this once again
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I've got the light at a 90Ā° angle watch
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what happens when I make it go wash the
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wall look at the texture difference
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right here look at how smooth the joint
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compound is but look how rough the
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actual paper is on the drywall it's very
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rough it doesn't seem that way but it is
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and if you paint that that rough texture
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is going to come through your paint
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unless you use a really really good
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primer that's meant for dry roll but a
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lot of people don't do it a lot of
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people buy the paint that says it's got
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the primer in it I don't think it does
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that good of a job all right so once
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again when you look at it this way looks
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great but you've got to take the light
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and go like this so when we skim coat
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the wall when it's finished the skim
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coating is going to look just like this
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and you can see how this has filled in
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you can see the light and dark areas and
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that's where the joint compound filled
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in the minor imperfections in the
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drywall paper pretty interesting huh
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okay if you have any
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questions and you want to know more just
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put them in the comments below the video
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I'll try to do my best to answer them um
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we're going to do a few more videos
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about finishing drywall but remember if
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you're a pro we don't want to hear it
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you know I mean just go away I mean I'm
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not trying to be nasty just go record
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your own video and you show people how
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you do it instead of typing it in the
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comments simple as that all right thanks
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for watching I'm Tim Carter
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