Slow Work

After the clean up of the craft room, with all the room that was created, it came in handy for staining trim for the windows. I had sanded the trim a couple weeks ago, so I just needed a fairly dust-free place to stain and polyuerathane.

 

Then I closed the door, and moved to the office where the new sheetrock still only had one coat of mud.

Tip: if you are used to using a certain brand of mud, don't change in the middle of the project. AFter finishing the bucket of one kind of mud, I had a horrible time trying to spread the second brand, which ended up in a whole lot of sanding work for me last night. I stil need to do the two corners one more time, which I should be able to do today.

This is the type of work that does not give immediate satisfaction as it takes so long to let everything dry enough for the next coat (of mud or polyeurathane). However, eventually it will all be good.

Comments

[Cop Car]

Bogie--Egad! I'm not sure that I've ever used up an entire bucket of mud. Of course, with the serious work that you have on your hand, I'm not surprised. How were the two muds different?

[bogie]

The original mud was stiffer and more forgiving of my clumsy strokes with the mud spatula. The DAP mud is more creamy and not forgiving at all.

However, having sanded last night, I find that it seems to sand out better and smoother. Not that it needs to be super smooth since I only use eggshell paint, which gives just the slightest texture and hides minor blemishes fairly well.

[Cop Car]

Sanding "better and smoother" is also a function of elbow grease - which you are more generous with than I would be. ; )

[bogie]

Actually, since there was some of each kind of mud present for the sanding, I can definitely say that the smoother sanding is from the mud itself.

Even when I did another coat on the corners and some spot sections, and did final sanding during this week, I could tell just by running my palm over the wall (to find any missed bumps/ridges), which brand of mud my hand was feeling even though all patches got the final sanding at the same time.